LEADER 04117nam 22006375 450 001 996472056803316 005 20220126094125.0 010 $a1-4426-9579-X 010 $a1-4426-6714-1 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442695795 035 $a(CKB)2550000001195378 035 $a(EBL)3289678 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001151051 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12449670 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001151051 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11105228 035 $a(PQKB)11720649 035 $a(CEL)439913 035 $a(OCoLC)865475244 035 $a(CaBNVSL)slc00233582 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3289678 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4672854 035 $a(DE-B1597)497098 035 $a(OCoLC)1078907932 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442695795 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001195378 100 $a20181207d2018 fg 101 0 $aeng 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 200 10$aPolitics of Energy Dependency $eUkraine, Belarus, and Lithuania between Domestic Oligarchs and Russian Pressure /$fMargarita M. Balmaceda 210 1$aToronto $cUniversity of Toronto Press$d[2018] 210 4$dİ2013 215 $a1 online resource (463 p.) 225 0 $aStudies in Comparative Political Economy and Public Policy 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tA Note on Sources, Translations, and Transliteration --$tAbbreviations --$tPart One: Larger Influencing Factors --$t1. Introduction: Domestic Politics and the Management of Energy Dependency in the Former Soviet Union --$t2. The Legacy of the Common Soviet Energy Past: Path Dependencies and Energy Networks --$t3. The Domestic Russian Background: Domestic Choices, Foreign Energy Policy Levers, and Trans-border Rent-seeking --$tPart Two: Case Studies --$t4. Ukraine: Energy Dependency and the Rise of the Ukrainian Oligarchs --$t5. Belarus: Turning Dependency into Power? --$t6. Lithuania: Energy Policy between Domestic Interests, Russia, and the EU --$tPart Three: Conclusions --$t7. Conclusion: Managing Dependency, Managing Interests --$tAppendix: Chronologies of Main Energy Events for Ukraine, Belarus, and Lithuania --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aEnergy has been an important element in Moscow's quest to exert power and influence in its surrounding areas both before and after the collapse of the USSR. With their political independence in 1991, Ukraine, Belarus, and Lithuania also became, virtually overnight, separate energy-poor entities heavily dependent on Russia. This increasingly costly dependency - and elites' scrambling over associated profits - came to crucially affect not only relations with Russia, but the very nature of post-independence state building.The Politics of Energy Dependency explores why these states were unable to move towards energy diversification. Through extensive field research using previously untapped local-language sources, Margarita M. Balmaceda reveals a complex picture of local elites dealing with the complications of energy dependency and, in the process, affecting the energy security of Europe as a whole.A must-read for anyone interested in Eastern Europe, Russia, and the politics of natural resources, this book reveals the insights gained by looking at post-Soviet development and international relations issues not only from a Moscow-centered perspective, but from that of individual actors in other states. 410 0$aStudies in comparative political economy and public policy. 606 $aEnergy policy$zUkraine$2FBC 606 $aEnergy policy$zBelarus$2FBC 606 $aEnergy policy$zLithuania$2FBC 608 $aElectronic books. 615 7$aEnergy policy 615 7$aEnergy policy 615 7$aEnergy policy 676 $a333.79094771 686 $a355.02$2z 700 $aBalmaceda$b Margarita M.$01224637 701 $aMalmaceda$b Margarita M$01224638 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996472056803316 996 $aPolitics of Energy Dependency$92843353 997 $aUNISA