Associate Research Fellow
Mikhail Alekseyevich Strokan
Associate Research Fellow at the Center for Energy Geopolitics of the Institute for Advanced International Studies.
Mikhail’s current research focuses on energy politics of Eurasian petrostates. His scholarly interests encompass comparative politics, international relations, energy politics with special focus on Eastern Europe and Eurasia. Currently, he finishes his PhD in Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania.
Mikhail holds NMA in Political Scienсe from University of Pennsylvania (2019), MA in Internaitoanl relations from Syracuse University (2016), MA in American Studies (diploma with distinction, 2017) and BA (diploma with distinction, 2014) in Area Studies from St. Petersburg State University. Previously Mikhail worked at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the Kennan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and served as an instructor at the University of Pennsylvania.
In November 2022, the government of the Russian Federation proposed the creation of a “Trilateral Gas Union” with Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. Commentators were quick to focus on the Central Asian dimensions of the proposal, in particular the potential expansion of Russian influence in the region or Russia’s attempts to substitute exports to the region for the drop in its natural gas exports to Europe. This article suggests there is a bigger picture to consider.
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