European energy policy faces challenges. Among these are gas supply security and competitiveness of the gas market. Gas supply security is at risk from presently high and increasing European import dependence on a limited number of large foreign suppliers, notably Sonatrach, Statoil and Gazprom....

The article delineates the major national, regional and international level stakeholders in the westward Trans-Caspian transportation of Kazakh oil, supplemented with a discussion of the prospect of expansion of theTrans-Caspian/SouthCaucasus corridor in light of the presumably harmful effect of...