Although much attention is paid to the Caspian region with regard to energy issues, the domestic consequences of the region’s resource production have so far constituted a neglected field of research. A systematic survey of the latest research trends in the economic and political causalities...

This paper analyses the current problems related to security of natural gas supply in the EU. Analysing the Nabucco pipeline, it argues that the EU is balancing between a market and a geopolitical approach to energy security. For this reason, the EU is not capable of securing a sufficient amount...

To avoid Dutch Disease and other oil-related problems, policymakers advise oil-rich countries to save a proportion of their oil revenue abroad until the rate of return on these investments is greater at home than abroad and institutions have developed sufficiently to insure the quality of...

The present paper examines both domestic and international actors, involved in the westward oil shipment of Kazakhstani oil, and their interests. It demonstrates that while foreign companies have been backed by their governments, national firms have also enjoyed considerable state support,...

In this study, the Caspian Sea security issue is addressed in the context of the economic causes and consequences. First of all, general assessments and the case of the Caspian Sea assessments related with the Caspian Sea security problem and determinations for oil and natural gas, which the...

The Barons A visitor from Sweden Revolution Soviet Days The Middleman Détente The perfet Oil Field Crossfire The First Deal Return to Baku The Contract of the Century The Near Abroad Early Oil A Battle of Wills A Table of Two Negotiators An Accidental Pipeline An Army for Oil Boom and Bust...

Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables, Figures, Boxes and Maps -- Foreword -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I The Economics of Caspian Hydrocarbon Development -- 1. Economic Development and Resource Dependence -- 2. The Management of Hydrocarbon...

The current context generated by the armed conflict between Ukraine and Russia brings to the foreground an important issue concerning the international trade in cereals, mainly the transit of cereals from/to Ukraine via the Black Sea to/from Ukraine's trading partners. While the transit of...