The Caspian Sea Region Towards 2025: caspia Inc. National Giants on Trade and Transit? - Softcover

Anker, Morten; Baev, P.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9059723619 ISBN 13: 9789059723610

Verlag: Eburon Uitgeverij, 2010

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With security of energy supply high on the international agenda and fears of resource shortages resurfacing, the countries surrounding the Caspian Sea are stepping onto the global stage, claiming for themselves new roles as providers of resources to the world. But with this newfound role come several uncertainties. How will the current recession affect these recently independent countries? How will global climate policy alter the value of their massive hydrocarbon reserves? And might the wealth generated from the sale of these resources lead to armed conflict within the region?

            
To better understand the potential impact of these forces, the authors of The Caspian Sea Region Towards 2025 imagine three different futures and predict the Caspian Sea region’s place within each. In the first scenario, the world is dominated by economic competition, and those countries around the Caspian Sea are leading gas and oil exporters. The second scenario describes a world dominated by geopolitical rivalry and resource nationalism in which the oil and gas sectors are state-controlled. And the last tells the story of a world where climate challenges have initiated a global shift from carbon-based to low-carbon energy sources.

            
A fascinating and timely exercise, The Caspian Sea Region Towards 2025 will be required reading for all those invested in global politics and the future of energy security.

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The Caspian Sea and the lands around it are emerging again as a focus region in global affairs. With security of energy supply high on the international agenda, and with fears of resource shortages re-surfacing, the countries of the Caspian region are stepping onto the global stage, claiming for themselves new roles as providers of resources to the world.
However, the new-found strength and self-confidence of the rulers of these countries are built on uncertain ground. How will a temporary or longer-term global recession affect these recently independent countries? How will climate change influence them and will global climate policy alter the value of their massive hydrocarbon reserves? In some of these countries, there have been domestic armed conflicts or conflicts with neighbouring states could hostilities erupt again? And what about the major powers in the neighbourhood? Who will gain influence, and who will lose or will geopolitical games simply serve to destabilize matters?

In three scenarios for the Caspian Sea region in 2025 this book tries to suggest possible futures for the countries around the Caspian Sea. The futures are shaped in a complex interplay with global events, with other powers and with a range of forces within the region itself. The main forces shaping the region will be the market for natural resources and their impact on regional economies, political and cultural forces of change within the region and each of the countries, as well as the dominance and influence of great powers.

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• Verlag: Eburon Uitgeverij
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 9059723619
• ISBN 13: 9789059723610
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 153