The Gas Troika on the European Gas Market (Russia, Iran and Qatar, Volume 2: 2016-2022)

The Gas Troika on the European Gas Market, Volume 2 explores the ever-growing interest in European countries in consuming natural gas and liquefied natural gas (LNG) as the beginning of a significant shift towards more environment-friendly energy resources. The book studies the national and inter-regional contexts concerning increasing import volumes of the European gas market (EGM) from Russia, Qatar, and Iran through the Gas-Troika Organization (GTO) between 2016 and 2022.

While the wider energy policies of GTO members in the EGM are discussed, the more specific questions the contributions to this edited volume delve into are:

• How do the GTO members develop their interests and energy policies in the European environment?
• How do the common interests and policies of the GTO members explain the framework of the organization in the EGM?
• How is this organization perceived and assessed as a semi-coherent regional entity?

In studying these questions, the book applies a theoretical framework incorporating social structuration as a new approach. This second volume on the GTO places its arguments in the context of the Ukrainian conflict and the consequent shift in Russia’s long-standing influence in European energy affairs and its position in the global energy hierarchy; economic sanctions imposed on Iran by United States and the European Union and growing political tensions between the parties; and Qatar's strategic actions, including maintaining and expanding LNG production capacity.

Researchers in energy economics and political sciences, as well as energy analysts and consultants will find this book to be extremely beneficial.