Energy Security in the Baltic-Black Sea Region: Energy Insecurity Sources and their Impact upon States
Journal: Lithuanian Annual Strategic Review
Year: 2012

Over the past twenty years, the biggest challenge to the national security of the independent states from the Baltic to the Black Sea region has been in the energy sector. The problem has mostly been the failure to secure stable energy resource provisions. This is mostly due to systemic and historical as well as internal political factors. This paper examines the problems related to the energy security of the following three ex-Soviet bloc countries: Lithuanian, Belarus and Ukraine. The main ene