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An assessment of mining efficiency in Turkish lignite industry
Ediger, Volkan S.; Berk, Istemi; Ersoy, Mucella (Elsevier Science, 2015)This article focuses on the mining activities of Turkish Coal Enterprises (TKI) the major lignite supplier in Turkey. First we analyzed the lignite production and overburden removal activities of TKI from a historical ... -
The Effect of Energy Geopolitics on International Climate Change Initiatives
Ediger, Volkan S. (Uluslararası İlişkiler Konseyi Derneği, 2017)In this article in general the relationship between international climate change initiatives and energy geopolitics was analyzed and in particular the developments in energy geopolitics were investigated with a historical ... -
Energy in Turkey and Russia's Roller-Coaster Relationship
Ediger, Volkan S.; Durmaz, Duygu (Seta Foundation, 2017)Energy relations between Turkey and Russia provide an excellent example of how energy and politics interrelate in countries with a historically up-and-down relationship. Having started in the 1960s the two countries' energy ... -
Europeanization under Membership Uncertainty: The Cases of Environmental and Energy Policy in Turkey
Yıldırım, Cagri; Baysan, Alper; Ediger, Volkan S. (Uluslararası İlişkiler Konseyi Derneği, 2013)This article examines modalities of rule adoption from the EU's acquis communautaire under conditions of membership uncertainty Drawing upon the case of Turkey we probe into the viability of a policy-type approach (drawing ... -
A Farewell to King Coal: Geopolitics, Energy Security, and the Transition to Oil, 1898–1917
Ediger, Volkan S.; Bowlus, John V. (Cambridge Univ Press, 2019)Interest in energy transitions has accelerated in recent years due to rising concerns about global warming and resource scarcity but the drivers of these phenomena are not well understood. To date scholars have primarily ... -
Forecasting the Coal Production: Hubbert Curve Application on Turkey's Lignite Fields
Berk, Istemi; Ediger, Volkan S. (Elsevier Science, 2016)The dependence on imported energy sources is one of the biggest challenges that Turkey and many other similar countries face in the 21st Century and the gap between production and consumption cannot be decreased without ... -
Future availability of natural gas: Can it support sustainable energy transition?
Ediger, Volkan S.; Berk, Istemi (Elsevier Sci Ltd, 2023)Mitigating the adverse effects of global climate change and limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees C requires a complete transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources. Despite ongoing global efforts, particularly ... -
Geopolitics and gas-transit security through pipelines
Ediger, Volkan S.; Bowlus, John V.; Aydın, Mustafa (Springer International Publishing, 2020)Hydrocarbons are valuable only if they can be transited from where they are produced to where they are consumed. Despite the enduring importance of transit to the global energy system, the topic did not begin to be extensively ... -
Geostrategic challenges in the oil and gas sectors
Ediger, Volkan S.; Berk, Istemi (Springer International Publishing, 2018)This chapter identifies the major geostrategic challenges that have emerged during the last two decades and assesses their implications for the global oil and gas sectors. The historical development of oil prices shows ... -
Greasing the wheels: the Berlin-Baghdad railway and Ottoman oil, 1888?1907
Ediger, Volkan S.; Bowlus, John V. (Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2020)In the 1880s, Germany cultivated an alliance with the Ottoman Empire that led to a concession to build one of history?s most storied, diplomatically contentious, and financially challenging infrastructure projects: the ... -
A historical assessment of Turkey's natural gas import vulnerability
Berk, Istemi; Ediger, Volkan S. (Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, 2018)This article aims at evaluating the historical determinants and implications of Turkey's natural gas import dependency. We implement principle component analysis (PCA) methodology to construct a natural gas import vulnerability ... -
An integrated review and analysis of multi-energy transition from fossil fuels to renewables
Ediger, Volkan S. (Elsevier Science Bv, 2019)We are in the midst of a transition from a fossil fuel-dominated energy regime to a more sustainable lower-carbon one in which natural gas is a bridge fuel. Since the 1970s oil crises, however, the forecasts for gas and ... -
Introduction: Energy economics finance and geostrategy
Dorsman, Andre B.; Ediger, Volkan S.; Karan, Mehmet Baha (Springer International Publishing, 2018)Since countries’ economic independence is based on energy security decisions on energy economy and financing are assessed mainly by geostrategic considerations. Economically optimal decisions are not enough regarding ... -
Levant’ta büyük oyun: Doğu Akdeniz’in enerji jeopolitiği
Ediger, Volkan S. (Uluslararası İlişkiler Konseyi Derneği İktisadi İşletmesi, 2012)Levant Bölgesi’ndeki ticaret sisteminden başlayarak bölgenin hidrokarbon jeopolitiğine geçiş sürecine kadar uzanan tarihsel gelişimin uzun erimli (longue dureé) bakış açısıyla incelendiği bu çalışmada, bölgenin günümüzdeki ... -
Lignite resources of Turkey: Geology reserves and exploration history
Ediger, Volkan S.; Berk, Istemi; Kosebalaban, Ayhan (Elsevier Science, 2014)This article aims to emphasize the importance of lignite which is the mostly used domestic energy source in the Turkish energy mix by briefly overviewing its geology reserves and exploration. Lignites are distributed in ... -
Perception, petroleum, and power: Mythmaking in oil-scarce Turkey and Jordan
Ediger, Volkan S.; Selen, Eser; Bowlus, John V. (Elsevier, 2020)Oil has been a cardinal driver of economic growth and national development in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. States that produce oil in globally exportable quantities tend to be more powerful than those that do ... -
State capitalism and hydrocarbon security in China and Russia
Ediger, Volkan S.; Bowlus, John, V; Dursun, Ahmet Faruk (Elsevier, 2021)This study seeks to investigate how and why state capitalism developed in China and Russia in the oil and gas sectors and explain why two countries that have contrasting energy-security challenges use state capitalism to ... -
Turkish public preferences for energy
Ediger, Volkan S.; Kirkil, Gökhan; Çelebi, Emre; Ucal, Meltem Şengün; Kentmen-Cin, Çiğdem (Elsevier Science, 2018)Public concern over energy supplies prices sustainability and efficiency has emerged as a major issue around the world. Yet most of what we know regarding public opinion on energy comes from North America and Europe. This ...