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Margarita M. Balmaceda follows Russia's three largest fossil-fuel exports-natural gas, oil, and coal-from production in Siberia through transportation via Ukraine to final use in Germany in order to understand the tension between energy as threat and as opportunity.
List of contents
Acknowledgments
A Note on How to Read This Book
A Note on Transliteration and Measurement Units
Part I: The Overall Framework
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
Part II: Hydrocarbon Chains and Political 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
Part III: New Types of Energy and New Political Chains
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
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
About the author
Margarita M. Balmaceda is a professor of diplomacy and international relations at Seton Hall University. She is also an associate at Harvard University’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. Her books include The Politics of Energy Dependency: Ukraine, Belarus, and Lithuania Between Domestic Oligarchs and Russian Pressure (2013) and Living the High Life in Minsk: Russian Energy Rents, Domestic Populism, and Belarus’ Impending Crisis (2014).
Summary
Margarita M. Balmaceda follows Russia’s three largest fossil-fuel exports—natural gas, oil, and coal—from production in Siberia through transportation via Ukraine to final use in Germany in order to understand the tension between energy as threat and as opportunity.
