ABSTRACT
This chapter analyzes the role played by energy in Ukraine’s foreign relations with its main partners, including Russia, the EU, and international financial institutions. It looks at both the effects of pre-existing energy dependencies on foreign policy relationships, and at the effect of political relationships on the maintenance or overcoming of energy dependencies. After looking at the foreign policy, state-to-state level of the issue in this chapter, we turn to the domestic side of this question in the remaining chapters of the book.
