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ID156101
Title ProperTurkmenistan and the virtual politics of Eurasian energy
Other Title Information the case of the TAPI pipeline project
LanguageENG
AuthorAnceschi, Luca ;  Luca Anceschi Central & East European Studies, University of Glasgow, UK
Summary / Abstract (Note)In December 2015, leaders from Central and South Asia took part in the ground-breaking ceremony for the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) natural gas pipeline project. Sixteen months later, a confusing information flow continues to obfuscate external assessments of the project’s development: official rhetoric notwithstanding, there is no certainty on the details of project financing, while the pipeline route has yet to be determined. To illuminate this obscure implementation path, this article regards TAPI as a virtual pipeline, an infrastructure project that wields invaluable influence only when it is employed as a foreign policy tool or permeates domestic discourses of progress framed by the elites of the four consortium partners. The constituent elements of TAPI virtuality are discussed here through a dedicated focus on the process of energy policy-making of Turkmenistan – the sole supplier of gas for the pipeline project and the consortium’s key stakeholder.
`In' analytical NoteCentral Asian Survey Vol. 36, No.4; Dec 2017: p.409-429
Journal SourceCentral Asian Survey Vol: 36 No 4
Key WordsAuthoritarianism ;  Natural Gas ;  Turkmenistan ;  Pipelines


 
 
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