Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/253186 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
SWP Research Paper No. RP 13/2017
Publisher: 
Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), Berlin
Abstract: 
In the context of the security crisis in and over Ukraine, natural gas imports from Russia have become a source of debate in Germany and the European Union. Natural gas relations with Russia are often analyzed either through the prism of commercial and market-based transactions or that of foreign policy and geopolitics. In that respect, this Research Paper takes a holistic approach and tries to analyze and define the dynamics of (geo)politics and economic/commercial logics from the beginning of the early 1970s until today. The paper provides insights into the conducting of German-Russian gas relations at the levels of infrastructure development, trade, business-to-business and commercial ties, as well as political framing. It explains the nature and texture of the gas relations, which have been subject to change over time.
Document Type: 
Research Report

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