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Part I: Larger Influencing Factors -- 1. Introduction: Domestic Politics and the Management of Energy Dependency in the Former Soviet Union -- 2. The Legacy of the Common Soviet Energy Past: Path Dependencies and Energy Networks -- 3. The Domestic Russian Background: Domestic Choices, Foreign Energy Policy Levers, and Trans-border Rent-seeking -- Part II: Case Studies -- 4. Ukraine: Energy Dependency and the Rise of the Ukrainian Oligarchs -- 5. Belarus: Turning Dependency into Power? -- 6. Lithuania: Energy Policy Between Domestic Interests, Russia, and the EU -- Part: III: Conclusions -- 7. Conclusion: Managing Dependency, Managing Interests -- Chronologies of Main Energy Events for Belarus, Lithuania and Ukraine.. - A must-read for anyone interested in Eastern Europe, Russia, and the politics of natural resources, this book reveals the insights gained by looking at post-Soviet development and international relations issues not only from a Moscow-centered perspective, but from that of individual actors in other states."--Pub. desc.. - The Politics of Energy Dependency explores why these states were unable to move towards energy diversification. Through extensive field research using previously untapped local-language sources, Margarita M. Balmaceda reveals a complex picture of local elites dealing with the complications of energy dependency and, in the process, affecting the energy security of Europe as a whole.

Belarus. : (OCoLC)fst01260637. - Litauen. . - Lithuania. : (OCoLC)fst01227863. - Russia (Federation) : (OCoLC)fst01262050. - Russland. . - Ukraine. : (OCoLC)fst01211738. - Weissrussland.

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