No. 33: Oil and Gas Pipelines in the South Caucasus

Author(s): Lusine Badalyan, Julia Kusznir
Editor(s): Iris Kempe, Matthias Neumann, Robert Orttung, Jeronim Perovic, Lili Di Puppo
Series: Caucasus Analytical Digest (CAD)
Issue: 33
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich; Resource Security Institute (RSI), Arlington; Heinrich Böll Foundation, Tbilisi; Research Centre for East European Studies, University of Bremen
Publication Year: 2011

This issue looks at the security dimension of oil and gas pipelines in the South Caucasus with a special focus on export pipelines and Nabucco. It shows how energy supplies and transportation routes affect and alter regional security dynamics. The major thesis of the first contribution is that pipelines which could have promoted peaceful outcomes are in fact facilitating greater tension. The second contribution looks at the large number of problems hindering the construction of the Nabucco pipeline.

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