Garcelon, Marc; Walker, Edward W.; Patten-Wood, Alexandra; … - Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian … - 1998
In the early 1990s, energy companies around the world began to realize the enormity of the still-untapped oil and … these resources to the world market. The result has transformed the region into a fulcrum of geopolitical interaction …: Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan have formulated long-term plans to use the anticipated windfall of "petro dollars" from their reserves …