Description
About the Author
Stylianos A. Sotiriou is lecturer at the International Hellenic University.
Reviews
In this book, Stylianos Sotiriou develops a framework that views energy-related issues as an essential part of Russian foreign policy. The book's focus is on energy policy in the Eurasian geopolitical space, an issue that is analysed here through an essentially Russian lens. The author provides valuable theoretical considerations and offers substantive empirical data on Russia's energy strategy and spectrum of tactics. By focusing on natural resources management during the 2000s, the book does actually succeed in providing an insight into Russia's profit maximisation strategy.... [T]he book's contribution to the rationale of Russian energy policy deepens our understanding of energy relations in the Eurasian region. The book is well grounded on a huge number of primary and secondary sources and a dataset consisting of official publications and documents, statistics from energy firms as well as policy papers. The book is recommended to anyone with an interest in Russia's energy-related issues. * Europe-Asia Studies *
The crisis in Ukraine has brought power politics back to the agenda of European thinking about international relations. The provision of energy is one of the most important Russian power instruments in the Eurasian arena. Stylianos Sotirious study provides for a comprehensive survey of Russias foreign energy policy towards the European Union, China and the successor states of the Soviet Union during the 2000s. By doing so, he demonstrates very convincingly the limits of international institutions in this specific policy field. This wide-ranging book is recommended to all readers who seek a comprehensive and timely overview over Russian energy politics. -- Andreas Noelke, University of Frankfurt
The emergence of Russian energy power since the beginning of 2000s is widely considered as a key feature of the geopolitics of the entire Eurasia region ever since. This book provides a theoretically informed, thorough examination of the Russian energy policy toward the EU, the Former Soviet Union Region and China. It does so in an innovative way, namely by digging under the surface of current International Relations theory: a valuable contribution to our understanding of the complex geopolitics of the Eurasia region. -- Christos Paraskevopoulos, University of Macedonia
In this book, Stylianos A. Sotiriou analyzes Russia's energy strategy, its European, Eurasian, and Asian components, as well as their inter-connectedness. The reader will find it to be an ambitious, theoretically informed synthesis of various aspects of Russia's energy relations. -- Andrei P. Tsygankov, San Francisco State University
Book Information
ISBN 9781498502337
Author Stylianos A. Sotiriou
Format Paperback
Page Count 294
Imprint Lexington Books
Publisher Lexington Books
Weight(grams) 431g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 21mm