04322oam 2200745I 450 991078107450332120230725044853.01-135-22471-41-135-22472-21-282-57627-597866125762700-203-86523-510.4324/9780203865231 (CKB)2550000000006712(EBL)481015(OCoLC)609854998(SSID)ssj0000357627(PQKBManifestationID)11278522(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000357627(PQKBWorkID)10359069(PQKB)10551990(MiAaPQ)EBC481015(Au-PeEL)EBL481015(CaPaEBR)ebr10370139(CaONFJC)MIL257627(OCoLC)609880288 (EXLCZ)99255000000000671220180706d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCaspian energy politics Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan /edited by Indra Ãverland, Heidi Kjµrnet and Andrea Kendall-TaylorAbingdon, Oxon ;New York :Routledge,2010.1 online resource (205 p.)Central Asian StudiesDescription based upon print version of record.0-415-69320-9 0-415-54916-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Contributors; Acronyms and terminology; Introduction: The resource curse and authoritarianism in the Caspian petro-states; Part I Domestic challenges in the Caspian petro-states; Introduction: Domestic balancing acts in the Caspian petro-states; 1 Resource nationalism in Kazakhstan's petroleum sector: Curse or blessing?; 2 Petroleum-fuelled public investment in Azerbaijan: Implications for competitiveness and employment; 3 Displacement in a booming economy: IDPs in Azerbaijan4 Natural gas and authoritarianism in TurkmenistanPart II Energy relations of the Caspian petro-states with China and Russia; Introduction: China and Russia: partners or firewalls for the Caspian petro-states?; 5 China, energy security and Central Asian diplomacy: Bilateral and multilateral approaches; 6 In the 'new Great Game', who is getting played?: Chinese investment in Kazakhstan's petroleum sector; 7 Just good friends: Kazakhstan's and Turkmenistan's energyrelations with Russia; 8 Azerbaijani-Russian relations and the economization of foreign policy9 The Shanghai Cooperation Energy Club: Purpose and prospects10 Conclusions and further reflections: The logic of authoritarianism in the Caspian petro-states; IndexCaspian Energy Politics analyses the role of oil and gas in the development of the three main petroleum exporters in the Caspian region - Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan - and how energy resources influence interactions with semi-authoritarian Russia and China. Due to volatile commodity prices and competition for the resources in and around the Caspian Sea, the governments of these petroleum-exporters face a series of difficult decisions. These governments have sought to balance short-term incentives to spend oil revenues as a means to maintain power against the needCentral Asian StudiesPetroleum industry and tradeGovernment policyAzerbaijanPetroleum industry and tradeGovernment policyKazakhstanPetroleum industry and tradeGovernment policyTurkmenistanAzerbaijanForeign economic relationsKazakhstanForeign economic relationsTurkmenistanForeign economic relationsPetroleum industry and tradeGovernment policyPetroleum industry and tradeGovernment policyPetroleum industry and tradeGovernment policy333.7909475Ãverland Indra1509111Kendall-Taylor Andrea1509112Kjµrnet Heidi1509113FlBoTFGFlBoTFGBOOK9910781074503321Caspian energy politics3740710UNINA