Serbianna: Raising Balkan antagonisms & the energy nexus- by Ioannis Michaletos
Raising Balkan antagonisms & the energy nexus- by Ioannis Michaletos
A mark of our age is the interconnectivity of the political, social and economic global units, based on the expanding networks of telecommunications, transportation and in the case of the current article; energy. The future of the Balkans and the developments to occur in issues such as Kosovo, strongly depend on the emerging landscape shaped by the antagonisms of the stronger nations and based on the effective control of energy routes. Those include oil & natural gas pipelines and the electricity networks between the states of that region. It has to be noted though, that politics and business sometimes might differentiate, and that further complicates any assessment, especially in a traditionally turbulent region such as the Balkans.
Labels: Balkanization, EU, Russia
