The 'Beijing' vs. 'Washington' Consensus and Resource Management: The Case of Russia
Article from: OGEL 4 (2007), in Energy Security
Introduction
The instable and high commodity and energy prices, growing competition between major development/modernization policy models and increasingly worrisome 'ideological' divides between energy importers and energy exporters reveal the crucial importance of this sector for the global strategic stability and sustainable economic growth. For example, most of the energy exporting states consider their mineral wealth, especially hydrocarbons, production/processing industry and energy transportation infrastructure as an unalienable part of their national sovereignty and, in some case, as a ...