EU–Russian Relations and Turkey's Role as an Energy Corridor

Tekin, Ali; Williams, Paul

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“…Iran's engagement in the Syrian Civil War is at least as much motivated by its desire to secure a hydro-carbon export route through its Mediterranean coastline as by its support for the Lebanese Hezbollah [34]. In the wider region, geopolitically powerful and influential states like Egypt and Turkey, while not meaningful producers in themselves, are still seen to be determined by the regional geopolitics of energy [68], aspiring for a role as 'energy transfer hub' [19], [69]. 'Normalization' deals between Turkey and its former adversary Israel have caused many analysts to identify the energy link as the ultimate cause for what amounts to a dramatic foreign policy shifts [28].…”

Section: Social Energy Relations In the Middle Eastmentioning

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Beyond the resource curse and pipeline conspiracies: Energy as a social relation in the Middle East

Hoffmann

2018

Energy Research & Social Science

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This article identifies problematic tendencies in current analyses of the Middle East's energy relations. There is a tendency to see all social relations as determined by resource extraction, use and transfer, contributing to the uniquely instable social relations of the Middle East. The combination of weak governance and geological over-determination continues to damage the region's fragile ecology. Under these conditions, social structures are incapable to react to new crises, such as the effects of global climate change. This article offers an alternative, more optimistic perspective on the Middle East's energy relations. Privileging the social over the material, calorific, geological or topographic dimensions of energy relations, it argues that social life developed in relation to its natural resources, matter and energy, but is not singularly determined by it. It proposes to historicise and, thereby, repoliticise the Middle East's social energy relations, including its nutritional and geopolitical dimensions. This reveals their spatio-temporally dynamic, rather than materially determined character. Energy is subsequently redefined into a political category, a field of social change rather than a limiting biophysical structure. The concept of Social Energy, thus, transforms nature from a constraining externality into an integral part of social analysis and transformation in the Middle East.

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Section: Social Energy Relations In the Middle Eastmentioning

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Beyond the resource curse and pipeline conspiracies: Energy as a social relation in the Middle East

Hoffmann

2018

Energy Research & Social Science

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“…Turkey’s role in regional energy-resource exploitation and marketing is critical and in some respects is key to Russian–European energy considerations (Saivetz, 2009; Tekin & Williams, 2009). This fact lent a special gravity to the mutual high-level Russian and Turkish visits in the summer of 2009 and has continued to do so ever since.…”

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The Return of President Putin and Russian–Turkish Relations

Warhola

Bezci

2013

Sage Open

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By the time of Vladimir Putin's return to the presidency of Russia in May 2012, the Russian-Turkish rapprochement that began over a decade earlier had become a significant fixture of the Eurasian landscape. Nonetheless, numerous questions remain about the nature of the relation, implications for the region of western Eurasia, and its likely future directions. Four general characteristics of the bilateral relation have emerged, and recognizing them enables a deeper understanding of the opportunities and limits likely to be afforded, for Russia, Turkey, and the region: (a) pragmatism, (b) a multivectored approach to the bilateral relation, (c) commonalities despite contradictions, and (d) durability even despite episodic antagonism. The Russian-Turkish rapprochement has become a defining feature of the Eurasian landscape, but remains an unequal one, on several counts: energy resources, geopolitical strength, military capability, and underlying demographics. Nonetheless, various factors make a deepening rapprochement likely: mutual desirability of increased trade, wariness toward the West, Turkey's pursuit of a "no enemies" foreign policy, Russia's interest in regional great-power status, and common interest in regional conflict resolution.

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“…The literature on the energy policy of the European Union (EU) and the role of Turkey therein mostly focuses on hydrocarbons as the primary energy source and their transport towards the EU through pipelines,1–4 and more recently, on the natural gas reserves in the Eastern Mediterranean 5,6. The existing and planned pipelines are sources of concern for the EU decision-makers since they increase the energy-dependency of Europe, mostly on Russia 7–12.…”

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“…The existing and planned pipelines are sources of concern for the EU decision-makers since they increase the energy-dependency of Europe, mostly on Russia 7–12. Rather less attention was paid in the literature to Turkey’s renewable energy relations and their impacts on regional environment in Europe 2,13–18. Based on the existing knowledge on energy, water, and environment nexus,19,20 this paper aims to contribute to the literature by focusing on the electricity trade relations of Turkey with the European neighbors, and by exploring the impacts of this trade on the environment and the management of transboundary rivers.…”

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Turkey’s energy trade relations with Europe: The role of institutions and energy market

Sakal

2020

Energy & Environment

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Globally, the level of electricity grid interconnectedness between neighboring countries varies depending on the level of regional cooperation enabled by institutions. As suggested by previous research, in transboundary river basins, this variation affects the environment and the management of transboundary waters. In regions where all electricity utilities are connected and function at a synchronized frequency, and where integrated electricity market mechanisms function, the stress on the shared water resources tends to be less. Turkey shares river basins and power transmission lines in Europe both with the members of the European Union (EU) and with non-member states. The aim of this paper is to contribute to the literature on the geopolitics of renewable energy by comparing the level of Turkey’s electricity trade integrity with its EU-member European neighbors and with its non-EU-member neighbors and discuss the potential impacts of the transboundary electricity trade on the environment and the shared water resources. The main argument in this paper is that the higher level of electricity trade between Turkey and its EU-member neighbors is facilitated and boosted by Turkey’s membership to the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity (ENTSO-E). The higher level of electricity interconnection leads to a higher level of cooperation in water and environment issues in the shared river basins between Turkey and Europe through the facilitating role of established institutions.

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EU–Russian Relations and Turkey's Role as an Energy Corridor

Cited by 18 publications

References 15 publications

Beyond the resource curse and pipeline conspiracies: Energy as a social relation in the Middle East

Beyond the resource curse and pipeline conspiracies: Energy as a social relation in the Middle East

The Return of President Putin and Russian–Turkish Relations

Turkey’s energy trade relations with Europe: The role of institutions and energy market

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