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Pipeline Conflicts and the Early Days of Natural Gas Pipeline Conflicts and the Early Days of Natural Gas
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Ostpolitik: Accelerating the Gas Transition Ostpolitik: Accelerating the Gas Transition
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Oil Shocks and Security through Gas Oil Shocks and Security through Gas
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The Deal of the Century The Deal of the Century
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Gas, Exports, and Jobs Gas, Exports, and Jobs
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Reinforcing the Old Paradigm Reinforcing the Old Paradigm
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Natural Gas, Neoliberalism, and Climate Change Natural Gas, Neoliberalism, and Climate Change
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Post-Soviet Space and Gas Liberalization Post-Soviet Space and Gas Liberalization
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Conclusion Conclusion
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9 The Energy Entanglement of Germany and Russia: Natural Gas, 1970–2000
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Published:April 2023
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This chapter shows how German elites coproduced a vast natural gas infrastructure with the Soviet Union and Russia between 1970 and 2000 that created a dual lock-in for their nation: to Russia and to the coupling paradigm. The conventional wing of the SPD and the CDU lauded gas as an abundant, inexpensive energy that the nation must have to remain an export powerhouse. But reasons other than energy drove the creation of this physical infrastructure as well. Under the SPD, West Germany linked natural gas first to Ostpolitik, then to geopolitical security, and later to domestic jobs to justify the Federal Republic’s fourth energy transition. Neoliberal experts, meanwhile, claimed gas was clean, which let this energy sidestep the greatest criticism of the coupling paradigm, namely, that burning fossil fuels warmed the atmosphere. Even as the new ideas of Ecological Modernization gained momentum after 1980, the natural gas transition helped the old energy paradigm retain its grip on the Federal Republic.
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