The armed conflict between Russian and Georgia has further exposed the fragile position of the energy links running through the smaller country from the Caspian Sea to developed market economies South Ossetia energy geopolitics on the ground today Russian forces … Continue reading →
Corruption and politics in Ukraine threaten to choke off, at least in the near term, the expansion of oil exports, through the Odessa-Brody pipeline, from Azerbaijan and eventually Kazakhstan to Europe. This is the significance of Ukrainian Prime Minister Yuliya … Continue reading →
The one-year anniversary of the EU’s Partnership Strategy with Central Asia (Central Asia Partnership) gets off to a slow start but is not without potential. Origins of the EU’s Central Asia Partnership Strategy One year ago this month, the European … Continue reading →
Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan have culminated years-long negotiations with agreements with agreements to increase Trans-Caspian oil exports are set to include with culmination of Azerbaijan-Kazakhstan negotrations across the Caspian Sea, supplementing Azerbaijani crude in the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline.
Continue reading →New prospects to extend the Caspian pipeline network with a Trans-Caspian Gas Pipeline (TCGP) from Turkmenistan to Azerbaijan have been receiving deserved attention in recent months. However, another project to pipe energy resources from the western to the eastern shore … Continue reading →
Recent weeks have seen increasing United States activity in favor of constructing the Trans-Caspian Pipeline for natural gas (TCGP, Trans-Caspian Gas Pipeline) from Turkmenistan to Azerbaijan. But what are the chances of anything really happening? From the technical standpoint, there … Continue reading →
Cooperative energy security is not just intergovernmental cooperation. This paper explores the contribution of the original concept to the task of bringing together the international environmental and energy agendas. In its emergence through study of the Caspian region, the concept of cooperative energy security suggests the need for creating international, transnational, and multinational political coalitions having a strategic multi-faceted perspective. focused on concertation for governance. The question is discussed, how to encourage and implement the development of such a dedicated association of governmental, nongovernmental, and inter-governmental organizations.
Continue reading →The original concept of cooperative energy security, which is not just intergovernmental cooperation, is a progressive development of research into the sources of effective international environmental protection when economic, political and social elements in a manner impossible to disentangle. The idea of “strategic alliance” among government, industry and civil society also describes, in the political realm, the traditional relationship conceived in democratic theory between a civil society and its government.
Continue reading →Summary of remarks prepared for the panel “South Caucasus Frozen Conflicts: Overview and Comparison,” Frozen Conflicts Workshop, Centre for International Relations, Queen’s University, 20 April 2007 This report is a summary synthesis of previous research (Cutler 2003) examining four factors … Continue reading →
A significant indicator of Turkmenistan’s future diplomatic and economic course, and for the Trans-Caspian Gas Pipeline (TCGP) in particular, is whether new President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow will undertake a rapprochement with Azerbaijan. Former president Saparmurat Niyazov, self-styled “Turkmenbashi” (leader of Turkmens), … Continue reading →