UID:
edocfu_9959230647502883
Format:
1 online resource (205 p.)
ISBN:
1-135-22471-4
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1-135-22472-2
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1-282-57627-5
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9786612576270
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0-203-86523-5
Series Statement:
Central Asian Studies
Content:
Caspian Energy Politics analyses the role of oil and gas in the development of the three main petroleum exporters in the Caspian region - Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan - and how energy resources influence interactions with semi-authoritarian Russia and China. Due to volatile commodity prices and competition for the resources in and around the Caspian Sea, the governments of these petroleum-exporters face a series of difficult decisions. These governments have sought to balance short-term incentives to spend oil revenues as a means to maintain power against the need
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Contributors; Acronyms and terminology; Introduction: The resource curse and authoritarianism in the Caspian petro-states; Part I Domestic challenges in the Caspian petro-states; Introduction: Domestic balancing acts in the Caspian petro-states; 1 Resource nationalism in Kazakhstan's petroleum sector: Curse or blessing?; 2 Petroleum-fuelled public investment in Azerbaijan: Implications for competitiveness and employment; 3 Displacement in a booming economy: IDPs in Azerbaijan
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4 Natural gas and authoritarianism in TurkmenistanPart II Energy relations of the Caspian petro-states with China and Russia; Introduction: China and Russia: partners or firewalls for the Caspian petro-states?; 5 China, energy security and Central Asian diplomacy: Bilateral and multilateral approaches; 6 In the 'new Great Game', who is getting played?: Chinese investment in Kazakhstan's petroleum sector; 7 Just good friends: Kazakhstan's and Turkmenistan's energyrelations with Russia; 8 Azerbaijani-Russian relations and the economization of foreign policy
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9 The Shanghai Cooperation Energy Club: Purpose and prospects10 Conclusions and further reflections: The logic of authoritarianism in the Caspian petro-states; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-69320-9
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-54916-7
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203865231
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