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108 Gavdat Bahgat also defines same argumants. see, Gawdat Bahgat, “Pipeline Diplomacy: The Geopolitics of the Caspian Sea Region”, International Studies Perspectives, Vol. 3, No.3 (August 2002) pp. 315-316.
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119 Nasib Nassibli, “Azerbaijan's Geopolitics and Oil Pipeline Issue” Journal of International Affairs Vol. IV, No. 4, (December 1999 – February 2000) http://www.sam.gov.tr/perceptions/Volume4/December1999-February2000/nassibli.PDF
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121 Andrei Shoumikhin, “Developing Caspian Oil: Between Conflict and Cooperation”, Comparative Strategy, Vol.16, Issue 4, (October 1997) p.346.
122 Bolukbasi, op. cit., pp.405-406.
123 Shoumikhin, op. cit., p. 346.
124 Ibid.
125 Emmanuel Karagiannis, “The US–Iranian relationship after 11 September 2001 and the transportation of Caspian energy”, Central Asian Survey, Vol. 22, No. 2-3, (June/September, 2003) p.156.
126 United States Energy Information Administration, http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/country/country_energy_data.cfm?fips=US
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128 David L. Goldwyn, “Symposium: The Caspian Region and the new Great Powers”, Middle East Policy, Vol. VII, No. 4, (October 2000) pp.3-4.
129 Bahgat, Pipeline Diplomacy, p. 315.
130 Goldwyn, op. cit., p.3.
131 Karasac, op. cit., p.20.
132 Joyner, op. cit., p.208.
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135 James MacDougall, “A New Stage in U.S.-Caspian Sea Basin Relations” Central Asia No. 5, (1997), http://www.ca-c.org/dataeng/st_04_dougall.shtml
136 Karasac, op. cit., p.20.
137 See also, Sarah O’hara, op. cit., p.148.
138 Europe Crude Oil Production and Consumption, http://indexmundi.com/energy.aspx?region=eu&product=oil&graph=production+consumption
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150 Ibid., p.402.
151 Ozden Zeynep Oktav, “American Policies towards the Caspian Sea and the Baku –Tbilisi -Ceyhan Pipeline”, Journal of International Affairs, (Spring 2005) pp.25-26.
152 Bolukbasi, op. cit., pp.403-404.
153 Bahgat, Energy Security: The Caspian Sea, p.12.
154 Enayatollah Yazdani, “Competition over the Caspian oil routes: Oilers and Gamers perspective”, Turkish Journal of International Relations, Vol. 5, No.1&2, (Spring & Summer 2006) p.57.
155 John Chan, “China pushes into Central Asia for oil and gas”, (3 January, 2001) http://wsws.org/articles/2001/jan2001/oil-j03.shtml (06/03/2009)
156 Bahgat, Energy Security: The Caspian Sea, p.13.
157 Karasac, op. cit., pp.23-24.
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164 Bahgat, Pipeline Diplomacy, p.323.
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