Robert M. Cutler

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Is the Russian economy unsustainable?

May 30, 2015

It is in serious trouble, but is the Russian economy unsustainable? Western sanctions have restricted Russian companies’ access to international financial markets, but it is the state’s policies and priorities that are tanking its economic performance. Recent statistical releases show the Russian economy unsustainable without reform Recent statistical releases show that the gross domestic product… » read more

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Enlargement & Neighbours, EU Priorities and Opinion, Eurasia, Europe's East, Russia

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Kazakhstan’s oil production in the world market today

May 18, 2015

Who buys Kazakhstan’s oil production today? Question:  How might the falling oil prices affect Kazakhstan’s ability to develop and deliver oil to other countries, especially Europe? Answer:  The Italian company ENI been major player in the Kazakhstan’s energy sector for nearly a quarter-century, involved in the development of Kashagan and Karachaganak fields. Italy is the… » read more

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Energy, Energy Supply, EU Priorities 2020, Eurasia, Europe's East, Kazakhstan

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Azerbaijan becomes operator of South Caucasus Pipeline

May 7, 2015

Azerbaijan will have an important say in whose gas enters TANAP. In the beginning its own gas from the offshore Shah Deniz deposit is on tap. Baku hopes that the Absheron deposit being developed with the French firm Total will follow suit in time for inclusion into an expanded South Caucasus Pipeline and TANAP system.… » read more

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Energy, Energy Supply, EU Priorities and Opinion, Europe's East, Uncategorized

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The Eastring pipeline project: EU begins to recognize the “reality principle”

The EU seems finally beginning not only to realize its situation as a geopolitical and geo-economic actor in the energy sector, but also to take consequential steps in the real world that reflect its particular interests. This is preferable to its holding itself out as a bland and universal “exporter of European values” abstracted from… » read more

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Energy, Energy Supply, EU Priorities and Opinion

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Robert M. Cutler

Peace, Conflict and Cooperation in Greater Eurasian Energy Development Strategy and Security Policy.

Dr. Robert M. Cutler is Senior Research Fellow, Institute of European, Russian & Eurasian Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa. Based in both Montreal and Brussels, he was educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (B.Sc.), Geneva Graduate Institute of International Studies (Gallatin Fellow) and The University of Michigan (Ph.D.), and has held research and teaching appointments at major universities in Canada, France, Russia, Switzerland and the United States. After a dozen years exclusively in universities (where he taught subjects in international relations, comparative politics and political philosophy and all levels of instruction), he expanded into policy analysis and consulting, foremost as an Energy Security and Geo-economics Specialist, now spending up to half his time in Brussels. Besides producing the whole portfolio of scholarly, policy, and public-intellectual information products, he continues to serve on academic-journal and policy-review editorial boards in addition to executive committees of professional scholarly and policy research organizations.


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