[The implications of Russian-EU Energy Relations for Russian Economic Security]

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Table of Contents

CHAPTER 01: INTRODUCTION1

Background of the Research1

Research Aims2

Initial Literature Review2

Theoretical Framework4

Hypothesis5

CHAPTER 02: LITERATURE REVIEW6

Economic Security6

Political and financial difficulties of Russia and the EU relationship11

CHAPTER 03: METHODOLOGY20

Research Design20

CHAPTER 04: DISCUSSION22

Global and geopolitical trials of worldwide power security22

Global power demand23

Worldwide tendencies of re-nationalisation and a new asset nationalism26

High engrossment of power resources29

Internal confrontations and household steadiness of trade items countries30

Multiple urgent position, international refinery constraints and need of replacement capacity31

Development charges and buying into needs32

The EU's “Energy Action Plan”: a adequate notion for contending with the new international and geopolitical trials to power security?33

Europe's power provide security36

The EU's new external policies38

CHAPTER 05: CONCLUSION46

REFERENCES51

CHAPTER 01: INTRODUCTION

 

Background of the Research

Political analysts have alerted of the hazards impersonated by the detail that several states need the skills to evolve their own energy and are thus reliant, to changing qualifications, on external sources. Very couple of states has full household energy provision - even highly evolved countries for example the US and numerous European nations are not completely unaligned in periods of their energy provide routes. In specific, there has been anxiety that nations with a good household provider of certain kinds of energy will contain critical benefits when it arrives to considering with nations that need these energy causes and have predictably relied upon trades (or have tired their household supplies). As Prozorov (2006) proposes, “the assault for command of the world's energy provision threatens… to be every bit as tense, and possibly far more brutal, than any confrontation since the end of the Second World War” (Prozorov, 2006, p. 40). For the world's premier superpowers, for example the US, the EU and Russia, it is thus exceedingly significant that the topic of energy provide and command is administered with in a perceptive kind that does not exacerbate vintage stress and origin new ones.

This dissertation will look at the significances of Russian-EU energy relations in periods of Russia's endeavors to redefine the country's place and power in the up to date world. In part, this is a defensive topic, as Russia desires to double-check that it keeps its power, but it is furthermore a topic of attack political activity: Russia is trying to use its energy as an entails of effecting political change in several previous USSR states. Energy is part of a broader geopolitical topic in which Russia is searching to redefine its place in the world. Added to this is the latest economic worsening that has influenced nearly every country. This dissertation will gaze at how ...