Balmaceda Russian Energy Chains

The Remaking of Technopolitics from Siberia to Ukraine to the European Union
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-231-55219-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

Reihe: Woodrow Wilson Center Series

Margarita M. Balmaceda follows Russia’s three largest fossil-fuel exports—natural gas, oil, and coal—from production in Siberia through transportation via Ukraine to final use in Germany in order to understand the tension between energy as threat and as opportunity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Balmaceda, Margarita M.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Energie- & Versorgungswirtschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
A Note on How to Read This Book
A Note on Transliteration and Measurement Units
Part I: The Overall Framework
1. Dependency on Russian Energy: Threat or Opportunity?
2. Is Energy a Weapon or a Constituent Part of Disaggregated Power Relations?
3. Energy: Materiality and Power
Part II: Hydrocarbon Chains and Political Power
4. Natural Gas: Managing Pressure from Western Siberia to the Nürnberg Power Plant
5. Oil: Managing Value Swings from Siberian Fields to Gasoline Stations in Germany
6. Coal: Managing Subsidies from Kuzbass to Ukraine’s Metallurgical Complex in the Donbas to Germany
Part III: New Types of Energy and New Political Chains
7. And the Chains Meet Again
8. Disruptive Energies and the Tentative End of a System: An Epilogue
Appendix A: Glossary of Key Technical Processes 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

Über Autor(innen)

Balmaceda Margarita M.:
Margarita Balmaceda is a professor of diplomacy and international relations at Seton Hall University and a research associate at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute and the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard. She also heads the multidisciplinary Study Group on Energy Materiality: Infrastructure, Spatiality, and Power at the Hanse Wissenschaftskolleg in Germany and is a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center. She is the author of The Politics of Energy Dependency: Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania Between Domestic Oligarchs and Russian Pressure (Toronto, 2013) and Energy Dependency, Politics and Corruption in the Former Soviet Union (Routledge, 2008).Margarita M. Balmaceda is a professor of diplomacy and international relations at Seton Hall University. She is also an associate at Harvard University’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. Her books include The Politics of Energy Dependency: Ukraine, Belarus, and Lithuania Between Domestic Oligarchs and Russian Pressure (2013) and Living the High Life in Minsk: Russian Energy Rents, Domestic Populism, and Belarus’ Impending Crisis (2014).