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Red Gas : Russia and the Origins of European Energy Dependence

Per Högselius (Author)
This book applies a systems and risk perspective on international energy relations, author Per Högselius investigates how and why governments, businesses, engineers and other actors sought to promote - and oppose- the establishment of an extensive East-West natural gas regime that seemed to overthrow the fundamental logic of the Cold War
eBook, English, 2013
Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2013
History
1 online resource (XIII, 279 pages 19 illustrations) : online resource
9781137286154, 9781137286147, 9781137293718, 1137286156, 1137286148, 1137293713
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Printed edition:
Introduction
Before Siberia: the rise of the Soviet natural gas industry
Toward an export strategy
Austria: the pioneer
Bavaria's quest for energy independence
From contract to flow: the Soviet-Austrian experience
Willy Brandt: natural gas as Ostpolitik
Constructing the export infrastructure
Trusting the enemy: importing Soviet gas in practice
Scale up or phase out?
From Soviet to Russian natural gas
Conclusion