Oil, Oligarchs, and Opportunity: Energy from Central Asia to Europe
Article from: OGEL 3 (2008), in Eurasian Energy
Introduction
The Committee has asked me to provide background on how the Clinton-Gore administration recognized the significance of Caspian energy, and how it then organized itself to deal with this subject. As I understand it, however, the Committee's interest is prospective rather than historical. It wants to know what elements of this experience may be valid, as the United State turns to face the accelerating and multiple strategic challenges arising from energy. This testimony will therefore be structured as an historical account, interspersed with markers to indicate what may be lessons of ...