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Russian Energy Security and Foreign Policy / Adrian Dellecker and Thomas Gomart. Routledge, May 2011, 256 p.http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415547338/Presentation from Routledge :This book  provides an original and thoroughly academic analysis of  the link  between Russian energy and foreign policies in Eurasia, as well  as  offering an interpretation of Russia's coherence on the  international  stage, seeking to understand Russia and explain its  behaviour.The authors analyse both energy and  foreign policies together, in  order to better grasp their correlation  and gain deeper understanding of  broader geopolitical issues in Eurasia  at a time when things could go  either way-towards producers or towards  consumers. Questioning the  concept of 'energy deterrence' which aims  to fuel uncertainty in  Russia's relations with its partners, as well as  projecting its overall  power on the international scene, this  provocative volume seeks to  stimulate debate on this very important  issue.Assessing the weight that energy has in  Russia's foreign policy and  in its pursuit of power on the  international stage, this book will be of  interest to students and  scholars of international relations, energy  politics, geopolitics and  Russian and Central Asian Studies.Adrian Dellecker is  Research Assistant at the Russia/NIS Center (Ifri,  Paris) and holds a  Masters degree from the University of Sussex (UK).  His current research  focuses on Russian bilateral energy relations,  particularly in Central  Asia and the Caspian Sea region, as well as the  EU-Russia energy  dialogue. (© Routledge)Thomas Gomart is head  of the Russian/NIS Center at Ifri (French  Institute of International  Relations, Paris), and the editor of the  trilingual electronic  collection Russie.Nei.Visions. He also teaches at  the Military Academy  of Saint-Cyr.