Essays about: "regional security complex, european"
Found 5 essays containing the words regional security complex, european.
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1. Russia’s Geopolitics in Southeast Europe: Energy security and pipeline politics
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutet för Rysslands- och Eurasienstudier; Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för informatik och mediaAbstract : This thesis analyzes Russia’s geopolitical objectives in Southeast Europe by focusing on natural gas pipelines and energy security. Natural gas is a crucial soft power asset that Russia utilizes to maintain its sphere of influence in the region. READ MORE
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2. Understanding the Energy Interdependence Between the EU and Russia: Case of the Baltic Sea Region
University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för ekonomisk och industriell utvecklingAbstract : This study is conducted with the purpose to unfold hidden sides of the EU – Russian energy cooperation and to shed a light on possible reasons for existing problems that have rarely been voiced before. This study provides an alternative view on the role of the Baltic Sea region in the overall EU – Russian energy dialogue and its current situation. READ MORE
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3. European energy security: Prospects of the Caspian basin
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : Depletion of the indigenous energy resources of the EU, growing dependence on the external energy supplies, volatile prices of the global energy resources, increasing global rivalry for hydrocarbon reserves and recent Russian-Ukrainian disputes over natural gas prices which as a consequence has resulted in gas supply disruptions to several EU member states escalated the significance of the European energy security in the EU’s political agenda. Bearing in mind the aforesaid factors, the main argument of this thesis is to emphasize that diversification of energy supply and routes and the establishment of common external energy policy are substantial steps towards the maintenance of the European energy security. READ MORE
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4. EU as an actor in the resolution of the ethnic conflicts on the Post-Soviet space
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : The focus of this study is the frozen ethnic conflicts emerged after the collapse of the Soviet Union. These conflicts have been long disregarded by the EU and popped into European foreign policy agenda relatively recently. READ MORE
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5. The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership: Critical Assessment of the Security Aspects
University essay from Ekonomiska institutionenAbstract : This thesis attempts to assess the security aspect of the Barcelona Process (Process), or so called Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (EMP) within the theoretical framework of new regionalism and the Copenhagen School (Security complex theory) which agrees with neo/realism, neo-liberal institutionalism and constructivism in some aspects. The end of the Cold War broadened the security agenda and new security concerns emerged. READ MORE
