Russian energy companies and the enlarged European Union

Russian Business Power: The Role of Russian Business in Foreign and Security Relations

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 47-66

  Pleines, Heiko ^a  

^a Forschungsstelle Osteuropa   (Germany)

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EID: 84899305313     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203099728     Document Type: Chapter

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1. For an analysis of energy trade between Russia and the European Union, see A. Belyi, "New Dimensions of Energy Security of the Enlarging EU and Their Impact on Relations with Russia," Journal of European Integration 25, 2003, pp. 351-369;
2. Ian Lilly, "European Union-Russia Relations: The Oil and Gas Sector at the End of 2002," in Ian Lilly and Klaus Bosselmann, eds., Repositioning Europe, Christchurch, New Zealand: University Press, 2003, pp. 83-110;
3. Thirteen percent of state budget revenues (equal to some $13 billion) are from oil and gas export duties alone. Elena Sharipova and Ivan Cherkashin, "Chto daet renta federalnomy byudzhetu? Analiz zavisimost dokhodov rossiiskogo byudzheta ot neftedollarov," Voprosy ekonomiki 7, 2004, pp. 51-69, here pp. 61-62.
4. Mark A. Smith, "Russian Business and Foreign Policy," Conflict Studies Research Centre Paper F82, May 2003, p. 8.
5. or similar assessments made over recent years, see for example Rosaria Puglisi, "The 'Normalisation' of Russian Foreign Policy:The Role of Pragmatic Nationalism and Big Business," in Graeme Herd and Jennifer Moroney, eds., Security Dynamics in the Former Soviet Bloc, London:RoutledgeCurzon, 2003, pp. 63-79;
6. Robert Stowe, "Foreign Policy Preferences of the New Russian Business Elite," Problems of Post-Communism 48, no. 3, 2001, pp. 49-58;
7. Andreas Heinrich, "Large Corporations as National and Global Players. The Case of Gazprom," in Klaus Segbers, ed., Explaining Post-Soviet Patchworks, vol. 1, Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2001, pp. 97-115;
8. Hans-Henning Schröder, "Unternehmer und Finanzgruppen als Kräfte in der russischen Außenpolitik," Osteuropa, 51, 2001, pp. 393-407;
9. Yakov Pappe, "Neftyanaya i gazovaya diplomatiya Rossiya," Pro et contra 2, no. 3, 1997, pp. 55-71;
10. Igor Khripunov and Mary M. Matthews, "Russia's oil and gas Interest Group and Its Foreign Policy Agenda," Problems of Post-Communism 43, no. 3, 1996, pp. 38-48.
11. Leslie Dienes and Theodore Shabad, The Soviet Energy System, Washington, DC:John Wiley, 1979.
12. Jonathan P. Stern, "International Gas Trade in Europe: The Politics of Exporting and Importing Countries," Energy Paper 8, reprint, Aldershot, UK: Gower, 1986, p. 53.
13. On Soviet oil and gas exports, see Dienes and Theodore Shabad, The Soviet Energy System; Jochen Bethkenhagen and Herman Clement, Die sowjetische Energie- und Rohstoffwirtschaft in den 80er Jahren, Munich: Oldenbourg, 1985;
14. Javier Estrada, Helge Ole Bergesen, Arild Moe, and Anne Kristin Sydnes, Natural Gas in Europe:Markets, Organisation and Politics, London: Pinter, 1988.
15. For an analysis of the political, security, and economic aspects of the Yamal project, see Astrid Sahm and Kirsten Westphal, "Power and the Yamal Pipeline," in Margarita M. Balmaceda, James I. Clem, and Lisbeth L. Tarlow, eds., Independent Belarus, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002, pp. 270-301.
16. A concise overview of pipeline routes and pipelines projects is given by Roland Götz, "Pipelinepolitik. Wege für Rußlands Erdöl und Erdgas," Osteuropa 54, no. 9-10, 2004, pp. 111-130.
17. A concise summary of the Energy Charter is given by James Chalker, "Der Energiecharta-Vertrag," Osteuropa 54, no. 9-10, 2004, pp. 55-67.
18. Rüdiger Ahrend and William Tompson, "Russia's Gas Sector: The Endless Wait for Reform?" OECD Economics Department Working Paper 402, September 2004, especially Annex 1.
19. Andreas Heinrich, "Russian Companies in Old EU Member States: The Case of Germany," Journal of East-West Business, forthcoming.
20. For an example of a brief interlude of complaints, see Philip Hanson, "Russia-EU Economic Relations: Dimensions and Issues," in Christian Meier, Heiko Pleines, and Hans-Henning Schröder, eds., Ökonomie - Kultur - Politik. Transformationsprozesse in Osteuropa, Bremen: Edition Temmen, 2003, pp. 185-200, here pp. 187-189.
21. See, for example, Pekka Sutela, "EU, Russia and Common Economic Space," BOFIT Online 3/2005 (www.bof.fi/bofit);
22. Carl Hamilton, "Russia's European Economic Integration: Escapism and Realities," CEPR Discussion Paper 3840, 2003, pp. 16-24, www.cepr.org;
23. Ivan Samson, "The Common European Economic Space between Russia and the EU: An Institutional Anchor for Accelerating Russian Reform," Russian Economic Trends Quarterly 3, 2002, pp. 7-15.
24. For a detailed account, see Jan Adams, "Russia's Gas Diplomacy," Problems of Post-Communism 49, no. 3, 2002, pp. 14-22
25. Heiko Pleines, Wirtschaftseliten und Politik im Russland der Jelzin-Ära, Münster: LIT, 2004, pp. 241-255.
26. US Embassy, Moscow, "A Primer on Pipeline Access and Its Politics in Russia," Pipeline News, 5 July 1997.
27. Based on news reports. For a longer account, see Bartlomiej Nowak, "Foreign Direct Investment in Petroleum Sector in Poland," in Alojzy Nowak, Jeffrey W. Steagall, and Mina N. Baliamoune, eds., Globalization, International Business and European Integration, Warsaw: Centre for Europe, 2004, pp. 215-233, here: pp. 223-226.
28. Based on news reports. For longer accounts, see Vaclovas Miškinis, "Atomausstieg und Abhängigkeit. Energieversorgung in Litauen," Osteuropa 54, no. 9-10, 2004, pp. 238-249, here pp. 239-242;
29. Heiko Pleines, "Mazeikiu Nafta Sale Marks a Positive Trend for Russian Oil Companies," FSU Oil and Gas Monitor (NewsBase), 18 September 2002.
30. Thomas Diez, Stephan Stetter, and Mathias Albert, "The European Union and Border Conflicts: The Transformative Power of Integration," paper presented to the International Studies Association Annual Convention, March 2004.