Entries from Robert M. Cutler on Energy and Eurasia tagged with 'Pakistan'

Turkmenistan Diversifies Gas Export Routes

Turkmenistan has broken Russia’s stranglehold on its gas exports by opening a pipeline through Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan to China. The country’s president Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov has just made his first trip to New Delhi where the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India natural gas pipeline project...

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Posted on July 8, 2010 7:23 PM

India Seeks to Re-enter New Iran-Pakistan Gas Deal

Last month, after years of on-again, off-again negotiations, Iran and Pakistan signed an agreement for a bilateral natural gas pipeline to be sourced from the South Pars deposit. India has since asked to reopen negotiations, from which it had earlier...

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Posted on April 28, 2010 9:37 AM

The Rise of the Rimland?

Recent energy and other developments in Southwest Asia, particularly involving Turkey, Iran and Iraq, sketch the outline of an imminent reorganization of international relations in the region. This will have knock-on effects for Eurasia as a whole and the shape...

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Posted on November 13, 2009 2:46 PM

Синьцзян - энергетические ворота Китая

Волнения в Синьцзян-Уйгурском районе разразились спустя 15 лет после начала масштабной трансформации этого региона в геоэкономический трамплин для китайского прыжка в бывшие советские республики....

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Posted on July 17, 2009 11:24 AM

Xinjiang: China's energy gateway

The unrest in China's far-west region of Xinjiang, notably in the local capital of Urumqi, comes after 15 years of development and transformation of the area to be a geo-economic springboard for projecting influence into Central Asia and the Caspian...

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Posted on July 10, 2009 4:33 AM

Iran-Pakistan pipeline not a done deal

Some small fanfare was given to the signature on May 24 between the presidents of Iran and Pakistan of an agreement for the construction of a gas pipeline running from the former's South Pars gas field through the latter's unstable...

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Posted on June 26, 2009 3:01 AM

Р. Катлер: "Политическая элита США всегда признавала значение Узбекистана для Центральной Азии и Евразии"

Известный американский эксперт по евразийской политике профессор Роберт Катлер поделился своим видением развития геополитических и экономических процессов в Центральной Азии и Евразии с нашим внештатным корреспондентом Мавляном Юлдашевым....

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Posted on April 23, 2008 10:57 AM

Delhi's Options beyond Iran

When US President George W. Bush was in India this month, he caused a flurry of commentary, especially in the Indian media, by appearing to lift long-standing American objections to the construction of a natural gas pipeline from Iran through...

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Posted on March 28, 2006 7:51 AM

Energy Security for Turkey Is Energy Security for Others

A geopolitical and geo-economic inventory of Turkey's assets in the middle of the first decade of the twenty-first century reveals such strengths, beyond its military capa-bilities and other state institutions, as industry, population, and, above all, geographic lo-cation. These are...

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Posted on February 12, 2006 10:27 AM

The Turkish Parliament's Double-Fisted Knockout

Press reports, especially in North America, suggested that a deal between Ankara and Washington [for US use of Turkish territory and airspace for the insertion of American troops into Iraq] was just a question of money, using the metaphor of the bazaar to explain Turkish negotiating behavior. In the end, this description was shown to be ill-conceived and inaccurate. In all the hubbub, few people noticed that the same vote that rejected the American aid package also failed to authorize Turkey's military intervention in northern Iraq.

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Posted on March 5, 2003 12:00 AM

How Deeply Will Iran Penetrate the Evolving Eurasian Energy Networks?

In late 2000, the EU and Russia began extensive high-level commercial talks about the prospects for European importation of Russian energy resources over the course of coming decades. However, Russia's failure to pursue adequate investment in its natural gas industry...

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Posted on March 13, 2002 11:15 PM

Central Asian energy and security in light of the Afghanistan crisis

The effect of events in Afghanistan on public opinion in Central Asia is difficult to gauge. Yet this public opinion is already in general either exhausted by economic hardship or increasingly discontent with political repression. That very situation is what...

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Posted on October 10, 2001 10:35 PM

The Indo–Iranian Rappochement: Not Just Natural Gas Anymore

Earlier this month India's Prime Minister Atel Behari Vajpayee became only the second Indian head of government to visit Tehran since the disintegration of the Soviet Union, and the first in over seven years. At the head of a large delegation, he signed seven cooperation accords on energy, water, trade and science but sought to downplay efforts at bilateral defense cooperation

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Posted on May 9, 2001 5:21 PM

Geo-economics and Energy Development in Central Asia

This article calls attention to overlooked aspects of the Central Asian energy balance, with special attention paid to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan and the contrasts between them and the significance of those contrasts.

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Posted on April 25, 2001 1:38 AM

New Configurations around the Caspian Sea (4/4)

The selection several weeks ago of Italy's ENI as operator of the Offshore Kazakhstan International Operating Company (OKIOC), which is exploring the vast Kashagan deposit offshore from Kazakhstan, came as a surprise to most observers. Eni was a dark horse...

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Posted on March 28, 2001 10:36 PM

New Configurations around the Caspian (1/4)

In an official announcement, the government of Turkmenistan put its cards on the table concerning the diplomatic position that it plans to take on the demarcation of the Caspian Sea and the division of its resources at the summit meeting...

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Posted on February 22, 2001 9:46 PM

A Frosty New Year in the Caspian Region

The beginning of the year 2001 has seen a re-inauguration of economic and political warfare over the production, distribution and consumption of natural gas in the greater Caspian region. On the first day of the year, Turkmenistan stopped exporting gas...

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Posted on January 24, 2001 8:34 PM

How Shah Deniz Is Changing the Equation (9/9)

The Shah Deniz gas discovery had the effect of decreasing the volume of the Trans-Caspian Gas Pipeline (TCGP) allocated to Turkmenistan, whose President Saparmurad Niyazov consequently sought other new routes. However, he has so far failed to conclude any agreement...

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Posted on December 13, 2000 2:42 AM

How Shah-Deniz Is Changing the Equation (8/9)

In my most recent installment in this series, I indicated that recent developments pointed towards the need to review Turkmenistan's options for export of its natural gas. That is the subject of this article....

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Posted on December 6, 2000 2:32 AM

How Shah-Deniz Is Changing the Equation (4/9)

This week I continue my analysis of the fall-out from the gas discovery in the Shah-Deniz deposit offshore on Azerbaijan, which, as explained earlier in this series, has led Turkmenistan to turn away from the Trans-Caspian Gas Pipeline (TCGP) project....

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Posted on August 1, 2000 6:48 PM

How Shah-Deniz Is Changing the Equation (1/9)

On the natural gas front, all signs are "go" for Azerbaijani gas from the offshore Shah-Deniz deposit to find purchasers in Europe. The head of the European Union's TACIS (Technical Assistance for the Commonwealth of Independent States) program, visiting Baku,...

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Posted on June 20, 2000 2:56 PM

Russia and Central Asia: Playing the Turkmenistan Card

Russian President Vladimir Putin just spent the weekend of May 19-21 in Ashgabat where he reached an agreement in principle to increase Russian gas purchases from Turkmenistan. It is yet another indicator of Russia's renewed interest in Central Asia since...

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Posted on May 24, 2000 2:32 PM

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