By Margarita M. Balmaceda
Energy has been an enormous aspect in Moscow’s quest to exert strength and impact in its surrounding parts either prior to and after the cave in of the USSR. With their political independence in 1991, Ukraine, Belarus, and Lithuania additionally grew to become, nearly in a single day, separate energy-poor entities seriously depending on Russia. This more and more expensive dependency – and elites’ scrambling over linked earnings – got here to crucially impact not just family with Russia, however the very nature of post-independence country building.
The Politics of strength Dependency explores why those states have been not able to maneuver in the direction of strength diversification. via wide box examine utilizing formerly untapped local-language resources, Margarita M. Balmaceda finds a posh photo of neighborhood elites facing the issues of strength dependency and, within the approach, affecting the power safeguard of Europe as a whole.
A must-read for an individual attracted to jap Europe, Russia, and the politics of common assets, this e-book unearths the insights won by way of post-Soviet improvement and diplomacy matters not just from a Moscow-centered viewpoint, yet from that of person actors in different states.
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