Part I: Larger Influencing Factors
1. Introduction: Domestic Politics and the Management of Energy Dependency in the Former Soviet Union
2. The Legacy of the Common Soviet Energy Past: Path Dependencies and Energy Networks
3. Domestic Contradictions, Foreign Energy, Policy Levers, and Trans-Border Rent-Seeking: The Domestic Russian Background to the Role of Energy in Relations with Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania
Part II: Case Studies
4. Ukraine: Energy Dependency and the Rise of the Ukrainian Oligarchs
5. Belarus: Turning Dependency into Power?
6. Lithuania: Energy Policy Between Domestic Interests, Russia, and the EU
Part: III: Conclusions
7. Conclusion: Managing Dependency, Managing Interests
Chronologies of Main Energy Events for Belarus, Lithuania and Ukraine.