More Shopping OptionsThe Energy Reserves of the Caspian Region have been hailed as the new 'Middle East.' This book offers a thorough assessment of its energy resources and the nature of the international politics that surround them. This volume presents a unique study of the various dimensions of Caspian energy, ranging from the geopolitical to the economic, technical, religious, and political.
Yelena Kalyuzhnova is Director of the Centre for Euro-Asian Studies at the University of Reading, and Lecturer in the Economics Department at the University of Reading.
Amy Myers Jaffe is Senior Energy Advisor and Research Coordinator at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy.
Dov Lynch in Lecturer in War Studies at King's College, London.
Robin C. Sickles is Professor of Economics at Rice University.
Introduction--Amy Myers Jaffe & Edward Djerejian * I: Breaking New Ground: Caspian Region in the XXI Century * Geology and Petroleum Potential--Andrei Belopolsky & Manik Talwani * Confronting Independence: Political Overview--Martha Brill Olcott * Economies and Energy--Yelena Kalyuzhnova * Islam and Energy Security--Mehrdad Haghayeghi & Fred R. von der Mehden * II: Reaching a World Market: Pipelines, Transit Routes, and Processing Plants * The Economics of Pipeline Routes: The Conundrum of Oil Exports from the Caspian Basin--Ronald Soligo & Amy Myers Jaffe * Integration in the World Infrastructure: Oil and Gas Processing Industries in the Caspian Region--Andrei Kalyuzhnov, Julain Lee, & Julia Nanay * Convergent Economies: Implications for World Energy Use--Robin C. Sickles & Patrick T. Hultberg * III: National Interests in the Caspian Basin * Russia's National Interests in the Caspian Region-- Michael Margelov * U.S. National Interests: Getting Beyond the Hype--Joseph Barnes * Turkish National Interests--Gareth Winrow * Conclusion--Dov Lynch
