This book applies a systems and risk perspective on international energy relations, author Per Högselius investigates how and why governments, businesses, engineers and other actors sought to promote - and oppose- the establishment of an extensive East-West natural gas regime that seemed to overthrow the fundamental logic of the Cold War.

Autorentext
Per Högselius is Associate Professor of History of Technology and International Relations at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden. Earlier works include The Dynamics of Innovation in Eastern Europe (2005), among others, and he has published numerous book chapters and articles on related topics in Energy Policy, Utilities Policy, Europe-Asia Studies, and other academic and policy journals.

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Before Siberia: The Rise of the Soviet Natural Gas Industry Towards an Export Strategy Austria: The Pioneer Bavaria's Quest for Energy Independence From Contract to Flow: The Soviet-Austrian Experience Willy Brandt: Natural Gas as Ostpolitik Constructing the Export Infrastructure Trusting the Enemy: Importing Soviet Gas in Practice Scaling Up or Phasing Out? From Soviet to Russian Natural Gas