Trans Anatolian Pipeline Project (TANAP) and its impact on Regional Cooperation and Energy Security of Georgia
By: Nika Chitadze. Director of the Center for International Studies Ketevan Jebisashvili. Research Fellow of the Center for International Studies Introduction The energy factor has come to the world politics with the beginning of an industrial era. Before that people were fighting for territories (pastures and fields), or deposits and control over trade routes and so on. XX century has added to it the fight for energy resources carried on by means of all available economic, diplomatic and military ways. Aspiration for the control over energy resources has turned to the major factor of the world history. After the collapse of USSR the new geopolitical realities have been created in the global politics and especially in the post-soviet space. Together with the such positive event as disintegration the last totalitarian empire USSR, in the beginning of 1990s of the 20th century, at the same time several political ...