Natural gas and the Russia-Ukraine crisis: Strategic restraint and the emerging Europe-Eurasia gas network

被引:32
作者
Stulberg, Adam N. [1 ]
机构
[1] Georgia Inst Technol, Sam Nunn Sch Int Affairs, 781 Marietta St, Atlanta, GA 30318 USA
关键词
Energy Security; Gazprom; Energy Networks; Russia;
D O I
10.1016/j.erss.2016.12.017
中图分类号
X [环境科学、安全科学];
学科分类号
08 ; 0830 ;
摘要
This article explicates the puzzle of strategic restraint in contemporary European-Russian gas relations. The first and second sections compare and contrast successive gas wars since 2006, detailing respective dimensions to restraint and costly paralysis experienced by upstream, downstream, and transit states alike. The third part presents an alternative understanding of energy power politics rooted in social network analysis. It probes the validity of new forms of power, influence, and vulnerability in Russia's evolving gas relations with Europe, as derived from betweenness centrality "among emerging infrastructure hubs and the quality of corporate alliances across subregions of Central Europe. This includes cursory examination of the credibility and costliness of disruption related to the flexibility and diffusion of gas relationships into/across the northern and southern parts of Central Europe, as well as the social capital within Gazprom's corporate eco-system that bound Russia's lasting prominence as a supplier in these subregions. The final section identifies practical guidelines for transcending the current knotty predicament to stabilize commercial trading and peaceful U.S./Euro-Russian energy governance (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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页数:15
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