Russian Energy Chains : : The Remaking of Technopolitics from Siberia to Ukraine to the European Union / / Margarita M. Balmaceda.
Russia’s use of its vast energy resources for leverage against post-Soviet states such as Ukraine is widely recognized as a threat. Yet we cannot understand this danger without also understanding the opportunity that Russian energy represents. From corruption-related profits to transportation-fee in...
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| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Woodrow Wilson Center Press Series
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on How to Read This Book
- A Note on Transliteration and Measurement Units
- PART ONE. The Overall Framework
- Chapter One. Dependency on Russian Energy: Threat or Opportunity?
- Chapter Two. Is Energy a Weapon or a Constituent Part of Disaggregated Power Relations?
- Chapter Three. Energy: Materiality and Power
- PART TWO. Hydrocarbon Chains and Political Power
- Chapter Four. Natural Gas: Managing Pressure from Western Siberia to the Nürnberg Power Plant
- Chapter Five. Oil: Managing Value Swings from Siberian Fields to Gasoline Stations in Germany
- Chapter Six. Coal: Managing Subsidies from Kuzbass to Ukraine’s Metallurgical Complex in the Donbas to Germany
- PART THREE. New Types of Energy and New Political Chains
- Chapter Seven. And the Chains Meet Again
- Chapter Eight. Disruptive Energies and the Tentative End of a System: An Epilogue
- Appendix A: Glossary of Key Technical Terms in the Natural Gas, Oil, and Coal-Metallurgical Chains
- Appendix B: Main Actors
- Appendix C: Chronologies of Main Natural Gas, Oil, and Coal Market Events for Russia, Ukraine, and the European Union
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index