Russian energy companies in the new Eastern Europe: The cases of Ukraine and Belarus

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

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 67-87

  Balmaceda, Margarita M ^a,b,c,d  

^a SETON HALL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b John C Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84906210187     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203099728     Document Type: Chapter

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2. Yuri Drakhakhrust and Dmitri Furman, "Belarus and Russia: The Game of 'Virtual Integration,'" in Margarita M. Balmaceda, James I. Clem, and Lisbeth L. Tarlow, eds., Independent Belarus: Domestic Determinants, Regional Dynamics and Implications for the West, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002;
3. Margarita M. Balmaceda, "Myth and Reality in the Belarusian-Russian Relationship," Problems of Post-Communism, May-June 1999, pp. 3-14.
4. See Margarita M. Balmaceda, "Understanding the Comparative Management of Energy Dependency in the Former Soviet World: An Introduction," unpublished manuscript, April 2004.
5. On this issue, see Tor Bukkvoll, "Off the Cuff Politics: Explaining Russia's Lack of a Ukraine Strategy," Europe-Asia Studies 53, no. 8, 2001, pp. 1141-1157.
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