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Russian energy chains : the remaking of technopolitics from Siberia to Ukraine to the European Union /

"Russia's use of its vast energy resources for leverage against post-Soviet states such as Ukraine is widely recognized as a threat. Yet we cannot understand this danger without also understanding the opportunity that Russian energy represents. From corruption-related profits to transporta...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Balmaceda, Margarita M. (Margarita Mercedes), 1965- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2021]
Series:Woodrow Wilson Center series.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Dependency on Russian Energy: Threat or Opportunity?
  • 2. Is Energy a Weapon or a Constituent Part of Disaggregated Power Relations?
  • 3. Energy: Materiality and Power
  • 4. Natural Gas: Managing Pressure from Western Siberia to the Nürnberg Power Plant
  • 5. Oil: Managing Value Swings from Siberian Fields to Gasoline Stations in Germany
  • 6. Coal: Managing Subsidies from Kuzbass to Ukraine's Metallurgical Complex in the Donbas to Germany
  • 7. And the Chains Meet Again
  • 8. Disruptive Energies and the Tentative End of a System: An Epilogue
  • Appendix A: Glossary of Key Technical Processes in the Natural Gas, Oil, and Coal-Metallurgical Chains
  • Appendix B: Main Actors
  • Appendix C: Chronologies of Main Natural Gas, Oil, and Coal Market Events for Russia, Ukraine, and the European Union.