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Understanding Pipeline Politics in Eurasia: Turkey’s Transit Security in Natural Gas

�ge, Kerem

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Kerem �ge



Abstract

As the importance of natural gas for the energy future of the European Union rises, many new pipeline projects are proposed to transfer rich resources of Eurasia towards Europe. Why do some of these projects succeed, and others fail? To explain this phenomenon, the energy security literature has focused mostly on the security of energy supply and demand, while the specific challenges faced by transit states attracted relatively less attention. This paper focuses on the reasons that make pipeline politics and economics controversial and challenging by introducing and operationalizing the concept of transit security. It defines transit security broadly where transit countries are sensible to changes in supply and demand in addition to pipeline-specific issues, which are determined by a combination of economic and geopolitical factors. It argues that in the case of Turkey, transit security is influenced by asymmetries in trade dependence and political power in addition to prospect of future rents from transit. The last section applies this framework to Eurasian gas transit in order to explain the success and failure of past, present, and future pipelines.

Citation

Öge, K. (2021). Understanding Pipeline Politics in Eurasia: Turkey’s Transit Security in Natural Gas. Geopolitics, 26(5), 1510-1532. https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2019.1687447

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Oct 28, 2019
Online Publication Date Nov 12, 2019
Publication Date 2021
Deposit Date Nov 20, 2019
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal Geopolitics
Print ISSN 1465-0045
Electronic ISSN 1557-3028
Publisher Routledge
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 26
Issue 5
Pages 1510-1532
DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2019.1687447
Keywords Political Science and International Relations; Geography, Planning and Development
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/3343879
Publisher URL https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14650045.2019.1687447
Additional Information This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Geopolitics on 12 Nov 2019, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/14650045.2019.1687447

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