04879nam 2200673 a 450 991097149220332120080611123022.097984006998949780313352232031335223210.5040/9798400699894(CKB)1000000000821323(MH)011825483-9(SSID)ssj0000480679(PQKBManifestationID)11300888(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000480679(PQKBWorkID)10455483(PQKB)11257463(Au-PeEL)EBL2060406(CaPaEBR)ebr11063821(CaONFJC)MIL791623(OCoLC)910815725(OCoLC)910553688(DLC)BP9798400699894BC(MiAaPQ)EBC2060406(Perlego)4171395(EXLCZ)99100000000082132320080610e20082024 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrPower, energy, and the new Russian imperialism /Anita Orban1st ed.Westport, Conn. :Praeger Security International,c2008.New York :Bloomsbury Publishing (US),2024.1 online resource (252 p. )ill., maps ;PSI reportsBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph9798216131175 9780313352225 0313352224 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction -- Theoretical background -- Introducing the independent variables -- Planting the seeds: Russian energy companies' expansion in Central Europe in 1991-2000 -- Consolidating State power: Russian energy companies' expansion in Central Europe during the first Putin presidency, 2000-2004 -- Harvest and obstacles: Russian energy companies' expansion in Central Europe during the second Putin presidency, 2004-2008 -- Conclusion.Russia is the world's foremost energy superpower, rivaling Saudi Arabia as the world's largest oil producer and accounting for a quarter of the world's exports of natural gas. Russia's energy reserves account for half of the world's probable oil reserves and a third of the world's proven natural gas reserves. Whereas military might and nuclear weapons formed the core of Soviet cold war power, since 1991 the Russian state has viewed its monopolistic control of Russia's energy resources as the core of its power now and for the future. Since 2005, the international news has been filled with Russia's repeated demonstrations of its readiness to use price, transit fees, and supply of gas and oil exports as punitive policy instruments against recalcitrant states that were formerly part of the Soviet Union, striking in turn the Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, and Lithuania. Orban reveals for the first time in Power, Energy, and the New Russian Imperialism Russia's readiness to wield the same energy weapon against her neighbors on the west, all of them former Soviet satellite states but now EU and NATO member nations: the three Baltic nations and the five East European nations of Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Slovenia. Orban shows how the Kremlin since 1991 has systematically used Russian energy companies as players in a concerted neo-mercantilist, energy-based foreign policy designed to further Russia's neo-imperial ambitions among America's key allies in Central East Europe. Her unprecedented analysis is key to predicting Russia's strategic response to American negotiations with Poland and the Czech Republic to host the US missile shield. She also reveals the economic and diplomatic modus operandi by which Russia will increasingly apply its energy clout to shape and coerce the foreign policies of the West European members of the EU, as Russia's contribution to EU gas consumption increases from a quarter today to three-quarters by 2020. Orban proves that Russia's neo-mercantilist energy strategy in East Europe is not at all dependent on the person of Putin, but began under Yeltsin and continues under Medvedev, the former chairman of Gazprom. PSI reports (Westport, Conn.)Energy policyRussia (Federation)Russia (Federation)Foreign economic relationsEnergy policy333.8/230947Orbán Anita1799154DLCDLCBOOK9910971492203321Power, energy, and the new Russian imperialism4342334UNINAThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress