Conference co-sponsored by
The Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute and The Davis Center for
Russian and Eurasian Studies
Reassessing Post-Soviet Energy Politics
Ukraine, Russia, and the Battle for Gas from Central Asia to the
European Union
7–8 March 2008
Center for Government and International Studies
1730 Cambridge St., Case Study Room S020, Cambridge, MA
Register at: http://www.huri.harvard.edu/calendar.html#2008_3_7-8
Session 1. Actors and Interests in the Aftermath of the 2006 Gas
Crisis
Friday, March 7, 2008
9:15 a.m.–12:00 noon
Chair: Oxana Shevel
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Tufts University
Associate, Ukrainian Research Institute and Davis Center for Russian
and Eurasian Studies
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Timothy Colton
Director, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
"The Gas Crisis of 2005-2006: A Retrospective View"
Lubomyr Hajda
Associate Director, Ukrainian Research Institute
"In the Wake of the 2006 Ukrainian–Russian Gas Agreement: New Rules
of the Game"
Margarita M. Balmaceda
Associate Professor, John C. Whitehead School of Diplomacy and
International Relations, Seton Hall University
Associate, Ukrainian Research Institute and Davis Center for Russian
and Eurasian Studies
"Russia and the Rise of Gazprom"
Rawi Abdelal
Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Faculty Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
"RosUkrEnergo: The Unexpected Guest Settles in for a Long Stay"
Roman Kupchinsky
formerly Coordinator of Corruption Studies, RFE/RL, Inc., Prague
"The Missing Pieces? Central Asia and Its Neighbors"
Carol Saivetz
Center Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Session 2. Gas Trade and Energy Schemes: Their Role in National and
International Politics
Friday, March 7, 2008
2:30–5:00 p.m.
Chair: Lisbeth Tarlow
Associate Director, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
"Current Issues and Challenges in Ukraine's Energy Economy"
Volodymyr Saprykin
Director of Energy Programs, Ukrainian Centre for Political and
Economic Studies, Kyiv
"How the Gas Issue Plays in Ukrainian Politics and How Ukrainian
Politicians Play the Gas Issue"
Taras Kuzio
President, Kuzio Associates (an independent consultancy and government
communications company), Washington DC and Kyiv.
"Private Interests and the Russian State: Gazprom and Power"
Mikhail Zygar
Energy Specialist, Special Correspondent, Kommersant, Moscow
"Energy: A Case Study in Russia's Political Gamesmanship"
Marshall Goldman
Kathryn Wasserman Davis Professor of Russian Economics (Emeritus),
Wellesley College
former Associate Director, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
"Gas Trade and Politics: The Chain of Political and Econonomic
Interests from Central Asia to the European Union"
Martha Brill Olcott
Senior Associate, Russian and Eurasian Program,Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace in Washington DC
"Main Current Issues in European–Russian Energy Relations"
Ferdinand Pavel
Research Associate, German Institute for Economic Research, Berlin
Member, German Advisory Group with the Ukrainian Government, Kyiv
"The Former Soviet Union and European Energy Security: A View from
Washington"
Gene Fishel
Senior Analyst, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, U.S. Department
of State (on leave).
Session 3. From Producer to Consumer: Pricing Mechanisms, Transit,
and Informal Institutions
Saturday, March 8, 2008
9:30–12:00 noon
Chair: Lubomyr Hajda
Associate Director, Ukrainian Research Institute
"Putting a Price on Gas: Pricing Mechanisms—Transparent and Opaque"
Andrei Konoplyanik
Deputy Secretary General, Energy Charter Secretariat, Brussels
"Getting the Gas from There to Here: Transit and Transit Competition"
Christof van Agt
formerly Office of Non-Member Countries, International Energy Agency,
Paris
"Transition, Weak Institutions, and Intermediary Companies: Filling
Gaps, Filling Pockets"
Margarita M. Balmaceda
Associate Professor, John C. Whitehead School of Diplomacy and
International Relations, Seton Hall University
Associate, Ukrainian Research Institute and Davis Center for Russian
and Eurasian Studies
"Plus a change: Continuity or Change in Intermediary Company
Schemes?"
Alla Yeremenko
Senior Correspondent, Section of Economic Security, Dzerkalo Tyzhnia /
Zerkalo Nedeli, Kyiv
Concluding Remarks
Margarita M. Balmaceda
Associate Professor, John C. Whitehead School of Diplomacy and
International Relations, Seton Hall University
Associate, Ukrainian Research Institute and Davis Center for Russian
and Eurasian Studies
Lubomyr Hajda
Associate Director, Ukrainian Research Institute
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