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Caspian Pipeline Consortium, Bellwether of Russia's Investment Climate?
The Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC), a shipper-owned oil pipeline carrying Caspian oil to Russia's Black Sea port of Novorossyisk, remains to this day the only oil export pipeline on Russian territory that is not under the control of the state company Transneft. Completed in 2001, the CPC was, from the start, the product of a fragile balance of power between states eager to maintain control of hydrocarbon flows and private companies able to finance the necessary infrastructure. Despite its economic success, the future of the CPC currently hinges on a shareholding dispute pitting Russia against Western private shareholders. This essay places the CPC dossier in the broader context of Russia's investment climate and argues that the dispute's dynamic is an important bellwether of the Russian energy policy.
China and the Olympic Games Challenge
The Olympic Games are meant to embody the climax of the peaceful emergence that the People's Republic of China has undertaken for nearly thirty years.
The Taliban Uprising Against the Afghan Government : An Economic or Ideological War ?
The Sixtieth Anniversary of Israel. The Thorny Question of its Legitimacy
The French Presidency of the European Union: Which Targets ? Which Partners ?
Germany Confronted with the European Union under Nicolas Sarkozy's Rule: Good and Bad Fortunes in Relaunching the European Union
Feeling prevails in Germany that the trend of the French european policy will depend much upon the success of its internal social and economic reforms.