At the end of the year, energy security in the Eurasian region faced a number of challenges forcing regional and nonregional states to react to the new conditions. It is now doubt that decision of establishing the ambitious TAPI gas pipeline project, a joint venture company for the transportation of up to 33 billion cubic meters of natural gas a year from Turkmenistan to Afghanistan, Pakistan and India was a result of significant changes in the regional energy security policy.
Assoc. Prof. Vakur Sumer has received his Ph.D. on International Relations, from Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey. He is a faculty member at Department of International Relations, Selcuk University, Konya, Turkey. He has worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the Global Research Institute at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, NC, USA, and as a visiting scholar at the Department of Environmental Science and Policy, University of California-Davis, CA, USA. Sumer has been a researcher at Max Planck Institute in Heidelberg, Germany in 2012.