[Bilimsel Haber] CONF.- Harvard Conference on Reassessing Post-Soviet Energy Politics, March 7-8

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CONF.- Harvard Conference on Reassessing Post-Soviet Energy Politics, 
March 7-8

Posted by: Margarita Balmaceda <balmaced at fas.harvard.edu>




"Reassessing Post-Soviet Energy Politics: Ukraine, Russia, and the 
Battle for Gas from Central Asia to the European Union"
CGIS, March 7-8, 2008

The immediate purpose of this conference is to untangle the latest 
crisis in Russian-Ukrainian gas relations (about debt and whether a 
corrupt intermediary company will be allowed to continue monopolizing
that highly profitable trade); in order to do this, we look not only at 
Russia and Ukraine, but at other important actors, especially the 
Central Asian gas producers, and at the EU as both a recipient of 
Russian gas transited through Ukraine and as a creator of open energy
trade norms it is seeking to implement in the larger Eurasian area.
The larger question is: are we really seeing--as claimed by Russia--the 
end of politicized energy relations between Russia  and the former 
Soviet states and the beginning of purely commercial, transparent relations?

The highlights of the conference are three presentations on the
intermediary gas companies that have so much been in the headlines in
the past two years but about which we know little, and the participation 
of Alla Yeremenko, Ukraine's most prominent energy and corruption 
journalist. This conference is also the first, to my knowledge, to 
systematically look at the pieces of the Ukrainian-Russian energy 
puzzle, including the domestic Russian factor, Central Asia, and the EU. 
We will have participants from the US, Ukraine, Russia, France, Belgium, 
Germany, Finland and Japan. An electronic version of the program is 
available.

Registration is free, at http://www.huri.harvard.edu/gas_conf_reg.html


Margarita Balmaceda


Dr.  Margarita M. Balmaceda
Associate Professor
John C. Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations
Seton Hall University
South Orange, NJ O7079 USA

Tel. 1-973-313-6202 (no voice-mail)
Fax. 1-973-275-2519
Seton Hall e-mail: balmacma at shu.edu

Associate
Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
Harvard University
34 Kirkland St.
Cambridge, MA 02138 USA

Tel. +1-617-623-1954 (+ voice mail)
Fax. +1-617-495-8319


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