The Caspian Sea Petroleum Region: Present-day Risks and Longer-term Uncertainties
– development trends and insecurities that may influence petroleum activities in the Caspian Sea region in a long-term perspective.– in cooperation with ECON and the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO). Participants
Julie Wilhelmsen
Stina Torjesen
Indra Overland
The Caspian Sea Petroleum Region: Present-day Risks and Longer-term Uncertainties
The objective of the Caspian Sea Region Project is to build a better understanding of the driving forces that will shape developments in the post-Soviet Caspian Sea Region until 2020, with a focus on the littoral states and Georgia. The project has four main themes: geopolitics, economy, regime dynamics and Islam. The methodological framework used is scenario analysis, and special attention is paid to Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan.
Project researchers aim to integrate their findings in the form of fully-fledged scenarios for the entire post-Soviet Caspian Sea region.
The researchers seek to integrate the findings in the form of full-fledged scenarios for the entire Post-Soviet Caspian Sea region.
Funding
Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy
Norsk Hydro
Statoil
Publications
- Overland, Indra
(2007). Regime Dynamics in Georgia,
in The Caspian Sea Region Towards 2020, ECON Report 2007-008
.Oslo,ECON.p. 49-56.This publication analyses the Saakashvili regime in Georgia after the Rose Revolution, detailing its development and stabilitet. It is part of a scenario-building project on the Caspian region. [url]