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 →
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 →
Interview on Tommy Schnurmacher Show, Radio CJAD-AM 800, Montreal. … 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 →
South Korea President Lee Myung-bak returned home last week from a tour of Mongolia, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan that helped to project South Korea investment and its foreign economic diplomacy across Inner and Central Asia while significantly expanding Seoul’s ties with … Continue reading →
The trip this past week of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh should be seen in light of the possible emergence of an India Kazakhstan China geo-economic triangle, similar in nature to the one I pointed out seven years ago, long before … Continue reading →
Kazakhstan has three major regions. Large parts of the west are desert or swamp; the population density generally very low, and the development of energy resources has encouraged local elites to explore the margins of their autonomy vis-à-vis the political … Continue reading →
Three recent developments testify to the latent dynamism of the Kazakhstan energy growth. These concern an extension of industrial cooperation with Ukraine and with India, and new plans for increasing the capacity of the pipeline of the Caspian Pipeline Corporation … Continue reading →
Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbaev has just completed a two-day official visit to enhance Kazakhstan-European Union relations. He went to Belgium, the present chairman-in-office of the European Union Council, and France. Kazakhstan is itself president-in-office of the Organization for Security and … Continue reading →
Berdimuhamedow announces construction of East-West Pipeline, across southern Turkmenistan to coast of the Caspian Sea, has begun. It would carry 30 bcm/y to a Trans-Caspian Gas Pipeline (TCGP) for shipment to Azerbaijan and retransmission to Turkey and Europe, if the TCGP is built.
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