LEADER 04460oam 2200493 450 001 9910554260903321 005 20230630000948.0 010 $a0-231-55219-X 024 7 $a10.7312/balm19748 035 $a(CKB)4100000011799327 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6185467 035 $a(DE-B1597)566481 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231552196 035 $a(OCoLC)1253312819 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011799327 100 $a20210510d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aRussian energy chains $ethe remaking of technopolitics from Siberia to Ukraine to the European Union /$fMargarita Mercedes Balmaceda 210 1$aNew York, New York :$cColumbia University Press,$d[2021] 210 4$d©2021 215 $a1 online resource (440 pages) $cillustrations 225 0 $aWoodrow Wilson Center Press Series 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tA Note on How to Read This Book -- $tA Note on Transliteration and Measurement Units -- $tPART ONE. The Overall Framework -- $tChapter One. Dependency on Russian Energy: Threat or Opportunity? -- $tChapter Two. Is Energy a Weapon or a Constituent Part of Disaggregated Power Relations? -- $tChapter Three. Energy: Materiality and Power -- $tPART TWO. Hydrocarbon Chains and Political Power -- $tChapter Four. Natural Gas: Managing Pressure from Western Siberia to the Nürnberg Power Plant -- $tChapter Five. Oil: Managing Value Swings from Siberian Fields to Gasoline Stations in Germany -- $tChapter Six. Coal: Managing Subsidies from Kuzbass to Ukraine?s Metallurgical Complex in the Donbas to Germany -- $tPART THREE. New Types of Energy and New Political Chains -- $tChapter Seven. And the Chains Meet Again -- $tChapter Eight. Disruptive Energies and the Tentative End of a System: An Epilogue -- $tAppendix A: Glossary of Key Technical Terms in the Natural Gas, Oil, and Coal-Metallurgical Chains -- $tAppendix B: Main Actors -- $tAppendix C: Chronologies of Main Natural Gas, Oil, and Coal Market Events for Russia, Ukraine, and the European Union -- $tNotes -- $tSelected Bibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aRussia?s use of its vast energy resources for leverage against post-Soviet states such as Ukraine is widely recognized as a threat. Yet we cannot understand this danger without also understanding the opportunity that Russian energy represents. From corruption-related profits to transportation-fee income to subsidized prices, many within these states have benefited by participating in Russian energy exports. To understand Russian energy power in the region, it is necessary to look at the entire value chain?including production, processing, transportation, and marketing?and at the full spectrum of domestic and external actors involved, from Gazprom to regional oligarchs to European Union regulators.This book 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. Margarita M. Balmaceda reveals how this dynamic has been a key driver of political development in post-Soviet states in the period between independence in 1991 and Russia?s annexation of Crimea in 2014. She analyzes how the physical characteristics of different types of energy, by shaping how they can be transported, distributed, and even stolen, affect how each is used?not only technically but also politically. Both a geopolitical travelogue of the journey of three fossil fuels across continents and an incisive analysis of technology?s role in fossil-fuel politics and economics, this book offers new ways of thinking about energy in Eurasia and beyond. 606 $aEnergy development$zRussia (Federation) 606 $aEnergy industries$zRussia (Federation) 606 $aEnergy policy$zRussia (Federation) 615 0$aEnergy development 615 0$aEnergy industries 615 0$aEnergy policy 676 $a333.790947 700 $aBalmaceda$b Margarita Mercedes$f1965-$01021165 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bUtOrBLW 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910554260903321 996 $aRussian energy chains$92820031 997 $aUNINA