[Aaus-list] CIUS SEMINAR SERIES: The Politics of Energy Dependency: Ukraine and Russian Pressure

- cius cius at ualberta.ca
Mon Mar 10 12:52:27 EDT 2014


Recent events in Ukraine again raise the question of Ukraine's energy
policy choices and the role of powerful domestic groups in relations with
Russia and the EU. *The Politics of Energy Dependency *considers these
issues from the perspective of post-independence energy policies in three
states: Ukraine, Belarus, and Lithuania. Dr. Balmaceda's project analyzes
the effect of these countries' geographic location on Russia's ability to
use energy as a foreign-policy tool in the region and on their own
political development.

*Margarita M. Balmaceda is Professor of Diplomacy and International
Relations at Seton Hall University and Research Associate at the Harvard
Ukrainian Research Institute. Her publications include Energy Dependency,
Politics and Corruption in the Former Soviet Union (Routledge, 2008), The
Politics of Energy Dependency: Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania Between
Domestic Oligarchs and Russian Pressure (Toronto: University of Toronto
Press, 2013), and Living the High Life in Minsk: Russian Energy Rents,
Domestic Populism and Belarus' Impending Crisis (Budapest: Central European
University Press, 2014).*

Discussant: Dr. Robert W. Murray, Vice-President, Research at the Frontier
Centre for Public Policy, Adjunct Professor of Political Science at U of A,
Senior Fellow of Security and Defence Policy at the Atlantic Institute of
Market Studies and Research Fellow at the University of Alberta's European
Union Centre of Excellence.

*Wednesday, March 12, 2:00 p.m.134 Telus Centre, U of A campus(corner of 87
Avenue and 111 Street) Sponsored byCanadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies*

University of Alberta(780) 492-2972
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