Table of Contents

Introduction ; 1. Defining Major Working Concepts of the Thesis: Energy Security, Gas Security, Transit, Gas Transit Security ; 2. Theorising Transit Security: the Eurasian Gas Network, Power Relations and Network Governance ; 3. Existing Multilateral and Bilateral Frameworks: the Lack of Overlapping Membership and its Implications for EU Gas Transit Security ; 4. Gas Supply to Europe: the Role of Non-EU/Non-EEA Suppliers and the Increasing Importance of Transit ; 5. EU Energy Policy-in-the-Making: Focus on External Transit Security ; 6. Russian-Ukrainian Gas Relations and Their Role for EU Gas Security: Looking for a Politically Acceptable Commercial Framework ; 7. The Russian-Belarusian Gas Relations: Balancing Geopolitics and Geo-economics ; 8. The Russian-Moldovan Gas Relations: an Unstable Stability ; 9. Building a Multilateral Framework for Secure Gas Transit: the Energy Charter Treaty and the (Draft) Transit Protocol ; Conclusion

About the Author

Katja Yafimava is Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies (OIES), in the Natural Gas Research Programme. She holds an MPhil in Russian and East European Studies, and is now completing her DPhil at the University of Oxford, Corpus Christi College on a Clarendon scholarship & Overseas Research Students / Universities UK award. Prior to joining the Natural Gas Research Programme in 2006, she conducted research at the Energy Charter Secretariat, Brussels, completed an internship at Shell Global Scenarios team, London, and was an FCO/OSI visiting scholar in Economics at the University of Oxford.

Reviews

The book opens an important debate on the transit dimension of energy security, which is unlikely to disappear in the short-term future.
*Andrei V. Belyi, Journal of World Energy Law and Business*