CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2010
| Author | Repyeuskaya, Olga |
|---|---|
| Title | ENERGY AS A FOREIGN POLICY TOOL: ASSESSING RUSSIAN ENERGY STRATEGY TOWARDS THE EUROPEAN COUNTRIES |
| Summary | The EU-Russian energy relations are rather ambivalent and constantly shift from the stage of confrontation to the stage of strategic partnership. Evolving as an energy superpower on the international arena, Russia seems to apply natural gas as a mean of strategic manipulation towards different EU member states. Pursuing pipeline diplomacy through the Nord and South Streams projects, Russia uses gas dominance to change the equilibrium of interdependence to its own virtue. Its actions towards the EU in the gas sphere are perceived as political and/or economic manipulation, depending on the European or Russian perspective of examination. Recognizing huge economic mutual dependency of these parties, it appears that it is too short-sighted for Russia to use gas as a mechanism of political influence and the EU’s perception of it as a threat is groundless and speculatively polemical. |
| Supervisor | Meszerics Tamas |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2010/repyeuskaya_volha.pdf |
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