Russian Energy Chains

Margarita Balmaceda is a professor of diplomacy and international relations at Seton Hall University and a research associate at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute and the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard. She also heads the multidisciplinary Study Group on Energy Materiality: Infrastructure, Spatiality, and Power at the Hanse Wissenschaftskolleg in Germany and is a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center. She is the author of The Politics of Energy Dependency: Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania Between Domestic Oligarchs and Russian Pressure (Toronto, 2013) and Energy Dependency, Politics and Corruption in the Former Soviet Union (Routledge, 2008).Margarita M. Balmaceda is a professor of diplomacy and international relations at Seton Hall University. She is also an associate at Harvard University’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. Her books include The Politics of Energy Dependency: Ukraine, Belarus, and Lithuania Between Domestic Oligarchs and Russian Pressure (2013) and Living the High Life in Minsk: Russian Energy Rents, Domestic Populism, and Belarus’ Impending Crisis (2014).