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Russia and the origins of European energy dependence
xii, 279 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Applying 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.
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Palgrave Macmillan transnational history series