In recent decades the EU has become more dependent on Russia for gas. At the same time, there were several geopolitical conflicts in Ukraine that disrupted gas relations and thus put dependence under pressure. This research aimed to analyse the relationship between geopolitical conflicts and dependency. By placing the relationship in the light of the theory of interdependency and the asymmetry theory, a new view was given to this exciting relationship. This problem was approached using an abductive research method, the singular case study. As a result of this, the geopolitical conflicts of Ukraine are used to interpret the relationship between geopolitical conflict and dependency. Trade, dependency and sanctions were the main variables analysed. The analysis shows a crucial link between actors’ economic and political interests and their influence on dependency. In addition, the change of dependency after the geopolitical conflicts in Ukraine was remarkable. Moreover, these changed in a negative sense. It can be concluded that there is indeed a link between the geopolitical conflicts in Ukraine and the gas dependency of the EU on Russia. More research has to be done to generalise this connection to other cases, and more
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:liu-185726 |
| Date | January 2022 |
| Creators | Ottens, Jesse |
| Publisher | Linköpings universitet, Statsvetenskap |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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