Russian Influence on Europe's Energy Security. A Geopolitical Analysis
Journal: Journal of Political Stability Archive
Year: 2026

The current research paper focuses on the geopolitical aspects of the Russian control over the energy security of Europe with a special focus on the interdependence of natural gas resources, strategic position, and policy change after the war in Russia-Ukraine. Europe has been long dependent on the provision of Russian oil and gas over the decades so as to build a complicated relationship between economic interdependence and vulnerability of strategy. In a process known as pipeline diplomacy, pr