Center for Security Studies

Interlinked Energy Supply and Security Challenges in the South Caucasus

Interlinked Energy Supply and Security Challenges in the South Caucasus

Author(s): Lusine Badalyan
Editor(s): Iris Kempe, Matthias Neumann, Robert Orttung, Jeronim Perovic, Lili Di Puppo
Series: Caucasus Analytical Digest (CAD)
Issue: 33
Pages: 2-5
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

The article examines the interplay of external powers' energy security interests in the South Caucasus, showing in particular how energy supplies and transportation routes affect and alter regional security dynamics. Pipelines that could have promoted peaceful outcomes are in fact facilitating greater tension.

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