First Workshop: Moscow, Russia, 14-15 September 2009
Arrival DAY
Sunday, 13th September
20:00
Welcome drink at Hermitage Hotel, 7, Dyrasovsky pereylok
DAY 1
Monday, 14th September at HSE, 11, Pokrovsky bulvar
10:30
Seminar Opening by Professor Nodar Simonia
12:00
Buffet Lunch
12:45
Session 1: Energy and Politics - Setting the Scene
Caroline Kuzemko: Energy, Politics and IR
Dmitry Suslov: Politicisation and Securitization of EU-Russia Relations
Andreas Goldthau: Governance and Markets
14:45
Coffee Break
15:15
Session 2: EU-Russia Energy: International Frameworks for Governance
Sergey Selivestrov: Russian Specific Position on the Energy Charter Treaty
Daniel Behn: Russia’s WTO Accession and Governance Implications
Andreas Goldthau: Discursant
17:00
Session 3: EU-Russia Energy: Bilateral Relations
Ian Klinke: The Rise of the New Cold War: Russian Energy and German
Geopolitics
Maria Tsay: Evaluating Real and Perceived Energy Security Threats
Tatiana Romanova and Kim Talus: Discursants
19:30
Workshop Reception: Museum “Moscow Lights”, Armiansky pereylok,
domstroenie
DAY 2
Tuesday, 15th September
9:30
Session 4: New Issues: Transit and Impact on Energy Relations
Holger Brandl: Transit Conflicts and Energy Relations
Jaroslaw Wisniewski: EU Energy Import Diversification Policy (South Caucases)
Irina Petrenko: Discursant
11:00
Coffee Break
11:30
Session 5: LNG: a More 'Secure' Alternative?
Maria Shiryaeva: Prospects for LNG Investments in Russia and Business Cycles
Marcel Dietsch: LNG Prospects in Europe and Natural Gas Co-operation
Kim Talus: Discursant
13:00
Buffet Lunch
14:00
Session 6 New Issues: Environment and Renewables
Elena Kutepova: Towards Environmental Governance in the Arctic
Egor Kotov: Russian Interest in the Kyoto Protocol and Market Mechanisms
Michael Keating: Discursant
15:30
Coffee Break
16:00
Session 7 – Round-up Themes:
IR, International Agreement on Energy and Sovereignty?
Changing role of states and markets in energy governance?
Transition from fossil economies to fossil plus (how?)
IR and energy 'security': what it means and how to improve?