摘要
Abstract
The dissolution of the Soviet Union reconstituted the Caspian region as a composite geopolitical space defined by the sovereign interaction of five littoral states,within which energy transit routes and governance arrangements gradually evolved into critical variables shaping regional power configurations and security order.As Kazakhstan's principal energy base,the Caspian not only underpins the country's economic performance but also functions as a strategic fulcrum for the implementation of its multivector balancing diplomacy and for the mitigation of structural dependency.As the world's second-largest concentration of oil and gas reserves and core of the so-called"energy ellipse",the Caspian basin holds the potential to serve as a significant source of energy security for Europe and its neighboring regions.The protracted escalation of the Russia-Ukraine conflict,coupled with multiple security incidents involving the Caspian Pipeline Consortium and its Black Sea terminal,has intersected with the broader securitization of global energy governance to generate what amounts to an extreme,institutionalized stress test for the stability of Kazakhstan's export corridors.The spillover effects of armed conflict have produced systemic disruptions to transnational energy infrastructure,demonstrating that neutral status and formal legal sovereignty do not automatically translate into transport security.Energy infrastructure is increasingly becoming a conduit for the diffusion of geopolitical uncertainty.Under these conditions,the structural vulnerabilities embedded within Kazakhstan's multivector balancing strategy have become more pronounced,revealing an endogenous gap between the juridical integrity of energy sovereignty and the practical controllability of transit security.Against the backdrop of what may be described as a"Hobbesian regression"in the international system,the strategic development of trans-Caspian energy corridors has assumed heightened importance.By diversifying routes through multi-nodal pathways and decentering partnership structures,Kazakhstan seeks to embed multiple institutional constraints within existing influence networks,thereby leveraging infrastructural reconfiguration as a mechanism for geopolitical maneuverability and strategic breakout.关键词
哈萨克斯坦能源外交/跨里海能源运输走廊/能源通道政治/相互依赖/地缘突围Key words
Kazakhstan's energy diplomacy/Trans-Caspian Energy Transport Corridor/energy transit politics/interdependence/geopolitical breakout分类
社会科学
