The Geo-economics of Energy Resources: How Natural Gas Opens Potentials for the European Union’s Cooperation with Central Asia Public Talk invited by the International Relations Society, Concordia University, 19 January 2017. Robert M. Cutler leads undergraduate seminar discussing Central Asian … Continue reading →
In the configuration of Central Asia, China, Russia energy, China is increasing its geo-economic Influence but Russia remains the main military-strategic power.
Continue reading →Diplomatic attention has intensified on the project of the Trans-Caspian Gas Pipeline (TCGP) while both obstacles to and incentives for its realization increase. Turkmenistan’s commitment to the project may be inferred from the finally completed construction of its East-West Pipeline … Continue reading →
Who buys Kazakhstan oil production today? Question: How might the falling oil prices affect Kazakhstan’s ability to develop and deliver oil to other countries, especially Europe? Answer: The Italian company ENI been major player in the Kazakhstan’s energy sector for … Continue reading →
Caspian Sea gas is not so plentiful in Turkmenistan, where the main deposits are in the country’s southeast. Yet with the completion of the East-West Pipeline (EWP), that gas is starting to become politically available for export westward through the … Continue reading →
With Russia politically weakened by the Ukraine imbroglio and the European Union more intent than ever finally to establish its autonomy in energy policy via Caspian Sea gas, Turkmenistan has opened up again the possibility for exporting its gas under … Continue reading →
Radio interview on Turkmenistan’s energy relations with Europe and Russia and the East-West Pipeline inside the country.
Continue reading →A source at Turkmenneftegazstroi is reported as saying the Turkmenistan pipeline from Dauletabad in the southeast to the Caspian Sea coast (“East-West Pipeline” or EWP) for natural gas (see dotted line across south in the map) will be completed in … Continue reading →
Keynote Speech to the Second Baku Forum of Association of Scholars of International Relations (ASIRS) These days people use the word “unprecedented” a lot. But there is a truly new international situation around the South Caucasus. Both Russia and Turkey … Continue reading →
Economic Papers 2. Washington, D.C.: George Washington University, Elliott School, Central Asia Program, September 2012. Kazakhstan’s policy of ‘resource nationalism’ scored another win in early 2012 when the North Caspian Operating Company (NCOC), which is managing the development of the … Continue reading →
