LEADER 04879nam 2200673 a 450 001 9910971492203321 005 20080611123022.0 010 $a9798400699894 010 $a9780313352232 010 $a0313352232 024 7 $a10.5040/9798400699894 035 $a(CKB)1000000000821323 035 $a(MH)011825483-9 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000480679 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11300888 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000480679 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10455483 035 $a(PQKB)11257463 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL2060406 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11063821 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL791623 035 $a(OCoLC)910815725 035 $a(OCoLC)910553688 035 $a(DLC)BP9798400699894BC 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC2060406 035 $a(Perlego)4171395 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000821323 100 $a20080610e20082024 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPower, energy, and the new Russian imperialism /$fAnita Orban 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aWestport, Conn. :$cPraeger Security International,$dc2008. 210 2$aNew York :$cBloomsbury Publishing (US),$d2024. 215 $a1 online resource (252 p. )$cill., maps ; 225 1 $aPSI reports 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9798216131175 311 08$a9780313352225 311 08$a0313352224 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- 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. 330 8 $aRussia 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. 410 0$aPSI reports (Westport, Conn.) 606 $aEnergy policy$zRussia (Federation) 607 $aRussia (Federation)$xForeign economic relations 615 0$aEnergy policy 676 $a333.8/230947 700 $aOrba?n$b Anita$01799154 801 0$bDLC 801 1$bDLC 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910971492203321 996 $aPower, energy, and the new Russian imperialism$94342334 997 $aUNINA 999 $aThis 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