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Biography 

Samuel Lussac is a French PhD candidate in International Relations at the Institute of Political Science of Bordeaux ("Sciences Po Bordeaux"). He started his PhD degree in September 2007 and received a scholarship from the French Ministry of Defence in June 2008. His thesis deals with the development of regional cooperation between Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey regarding oil and gas transportation issues. From September to December 2009, he was a research fellow at the University of Oslo thanks to a grant from the European research network GARNET.

He has been conducting extensive fieldworks in the South Caucasus, in Turkey as well as within the European Union on oil and gas transportation issues. He has participated in conferences and has written on the topic. In November 2009, he notably published a book on the role of the South Caucasus in EU oil and gas supply (Technip Editions).

He is a co-editor of the electronic journal in International Relations Dynamiques Interlationales. He is also a member of the French Association des Internationalistes, of the British research network UACES and of the research team from the Centre of European Studies of Sciences Po on the competition between Nabucco and South Stream gas pipeline projects. He regularly contributes as an expert to media in Azerbaijan and in France (France 24, Telos and Today.az).

Selected publications

2009-... Co-Editor of Dynamiques Internationales

Peer-Reviewed Journals

"Russia, China and the EU to Conquer Turkmen Gas", Telos (February 2009) in French (http://www.telos-eu.com/fr/article/russie_chine_et_ue_a_la_conquete_du_gaz_turkmene) (with Adina Crisan and Florent Parmentier)"The East-West Transportation Corridor: a Vector of Tensions in the South Caucasus?", Notes de la FRS 1 (2009) in French (http://www.frstrategie.org/barreFRS/publications/notes/2009/200901.pdf)"The Baku-Tbilisi-Kars Railroad and its Geopolitical Impact for the South Caucasus", Caucasian Review of International Affairs 2:4: 34-46 (Autumn 2008) (http://cria-online.org/5_5.html)"The European Union in the Caspian: What Neighborhood Policy towards Azerbaijan?", Eurorient 28: 205-220 (2008)

Book

Géopolitique du Caucase. Au carrefour énergétique de l'Europe de l'Ouest, Paris: Editions Technip, 2009, 208 p.

Other

The State as a (Oil) Company? The Political Economy of Azerbaijan, GARNET Working Paper 74/10 (February 2010) (http://www.garnet-eu.org/fileadmin/documents/working_papers/7410.pdf)

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