Turkmenistan and the virtual politics of Eurasian energy: the case of the TAPI pipeline project.
In December 2015, leaders from Central and South Asia took part in the ground-breaking ceremony for the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) natural gas pipeline project. Sixteen months later, a confusing information flow continues to obfuscate external assessments of the project’s develop...
| Publicado en: | Central Asian Survey Vol. 36; no. 4; pp. 409 - 430 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
2017
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