Politics of Energy Dependency
Subtitle: Ukraine, Belarus, and Lithuania Between Domestic Oligarchs and Russian Pressure, 1922-2012
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 444
ISBN-13: 9781442645332
Subjects: Comparative government; Economic policy; Ukraine, politics and government; Belarus, politics and government; Lithuania, politics and government
Description: The Politics of Energy Dependency explores why these states were unable to move towards energy diversification. Through extensive field research using previously untapped local-language sources, Margarita M. Balmaceda reveals a complex picture of local elites dealing with the complications of energy dependency and, in the process, affecting the energy security of Europe as a whole.

A must-read for anyone interested in Eastern Europe, Russia, and the politics of natural resources, this book reveals the insights gained by looking at post-Soviet development and international relations issues not only from a Moscow-centered perspective, but from that of individual actors in other states."--pub. desc.