Bibliograph

Red gas, Russia and the origins of European energy dependence, Per Högselius

Type

Label

Red gas, Russia and the origins of European energy dependence, Per Högselius

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Red gas

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

797334597

Responsibility statement

Per Högselius

Series statement

Palgrave Macmillan transnational history series

Sub title

Russia and the origins of European energy dependence

Summary

This book applies a systems and risk perspective on international energy relations, author Per Hogselius investigates how and why governments, businesses, engineers and other actors sought to promote - and oppose- the establishment of an extensive East-West natural gas regime that seemed to overthrow the fundamental logic of the Cold War., This book provides an alternative approach to analyzing Western Europe's much-debated dependence on Russian natural gas. The actual and potential consequences of this dependence have in recent years become a growing concern both in individual importing countries and at the level of the European Union. Russian gas exports have come to decisively influence EU-Russia relations and there is nowadays hardly any aspect of these relations that can be discussed without, directly or indirectly, taking into account natural gas. But despite the central importance of Russian natural gas exports in present-day European and Russian affairs, little attention has been paid to the political and economic decisions that - starting in the late 1960s - paved the way for large-scale imports of Russian gas. Applying a systems and risk perspective on international energy relations, author Per Hogselius investigates how and why governments, businesses, engineers and other actors sought to promote - and oppose- the establishment of an extensive East-West natural gas regime that seemed to overthrow the fundamental logic of the Cold War

Table Of Contents

Introduction -- Before Siberia: the rise of the Soviet natural gas industry -- Toward an export strategy -- Austria: the pioneer -- Bavaria's quest for energy independence -- From contract to flow: the Soviet-Austrian experience -- Willy Brandt: natural gas as Ostpolitik -- Constructing the export infrastructure -- Trusting the enemy: importing Soviet gas in practice -- Scale up or phase out? -- From Soviet to Russian natural gas -- Conclusion

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