This books analyses how transnational gas markets have evolved and impacted on EU-Russia energy relations. It examines how the political conflict surrounding Ukraine has accelerated a negative interdependence in the region, with energy interdependence increasingly used as an instrument of diplomacy.

Andrei V. Belyi is a senior researcher at the Centre for EU Russia Studies at the University of Tartu, Estonia, and a Global Faculty member at the Centre for Energy, Petroleum, Mineral Law and Policy at the University of Dundee, United Kingdom. He regularly teaches international energy relations and has been affiliated with the Energy LLM at the University of Eastern Finland, Finland. His areas of expertise are international energy markets, EU gas policies and Russian hydrocarbons.

Introduction
1. Energy in International Political Economy
2. Towards Transnational Gas Markets
3. The Background to Energy Interdependence in Euro-Russian Relations
4. The Europeanization of Energy Policies and its Impact on EU-Russia Relations
5. FSU Geopolitics and its Impact on EU-Russia Energy Interdependencies
Conclusion