| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Friday, January 11, 2013 | 2:00PM - 4:00PM | Seminar Room 208N, Munk School of Global Affairs 1 Devonshire Place |
Despite substantial economic interdependence in the energy sphere, officials in Kyiv have historically failed to make the country less reliant on Russian energy sources, thus making it possible for the authorities in Moscow to employ its ‘energy weapon’. This asymmetric interdependence has become a source of conflict between the two states, undermining Ukraine’s security, political democratization and market liberalization. In addition, conflicts in the energy sphere between Kyiv and Moscow have become a security concern for the EU and its member states, encouraging EU’s efforts to diversify its energy supplies away from Russian sources and Ukrainian pipelines. However, recent developments in global and regional energy markets, coupled with the attempts by the Ukrainian authorities to diversify country’s energy supplies, for the first time point to the reduction of Ukraine’s dependence on Russian energy sources, opening a possibility of a more independent security and foreign policy conduct. The lecture will discuss how market changes in the energy sphere within Ukraine, Europe and the globe bear on Ukraine’s transit capacity, security, and domestic political and economic transformations.
Dr. Nadiya Kravets is a postdoctoral fellow at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian studies at Harvard University, completing a book on Ukraine’s foreign and security policy since independence and working on a comparative study of foreign policies of the former Soviet republics. She earned her DPhil at Oxford in Politics and International Relations in 2012 and was a 2011-2012 Shklar Research fellow at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. Dr. Kravets teaches and writes on foreign and security policy in the post-Soviet states, Ukraine-Russia relations, and international relations theory, and is currently working on three collaborative research projects: the Black Sea Security in a Changing Global Order, the Economy and Politics of Energy Intermediaries in Ukraine, and the Making of Ukraine’s Foreign Policy.
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