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• Fukuyama gets a letter from paranoid Hungary – but why not me?
  05 February 2012 12:21 PM | 1 Comment

  But like all state bureaucrats, and even like the Communist censors of the past regime, they miss the point of the article, thereby confirming and reinforcing the message. (Maybe it is at this point that Kovacs was trying to demonstrate that institutions DO matter).

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• Nabucco’s bubble bursts
  19 January 2012 1:51 AM | No Comments

  Nabucco's bubble grew with the momentum built on the concept of security of supply for Europe. For companies and governments who supported the project, their commitment and involvement meant that the momentum needed to be maintained.

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• Why Hungary’s revisionist energy strategy will fail
  17 July 2011 4:40 PM | No Comments

  First, let's have a good laugh. "a competitive state player." While this is an oxymoron, the state can't be a 'competitive' player in a game when it is also the referee.

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• After Fukushima: Assessing nuclear power projects in CEE/SEE
  19 March 2011 1:44 AM | No Comments

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• The False Energy Accomplishments of Hungarian EU Presidency
  20 January 2011 11:45 AM | No Comments

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• Hungary to follow Tajik model: Forced donations for Surgut/MOL shares
  03 January 2011 9:24 AM | No Comments

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• Short, Short Nabucco Man
  21 February 2012 12:48 AM | No Comments

  But a shorter and smaller Nabucco? Is it really the big Nabucco that we know? The pipeline extending from the Caucasus all the way to Austria? Well, no not really. It is another pipeline plan that relies on the Turkish infrastructure (or the jumble of other pipelines that have to be sorted out).

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• Shale gas, time for traditional risk assessment, part II
  17 February 2012 2:21 AM | No Comments

  As the technology of fracking improves, the industry becomes more knowledge about the local geology and political/public landscape, and as state institutions introduce regulatory safeguards - responding to public concerns, shale technology will become more widely deployed.

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• Shale gas, not bound by traditional risk assessments? Part I
  14 February 2012 2:07 AM | No Comments

  Traditional risk analysis demonstrates shale gas is just like you and me - not a superstar Hollywood actor. The debate around shale gas as a 'game changer' needs to give way - including in the media - to a new level of analysis that sees the industry as bound by traditional political-economic risks.

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• Diffusion of Regulatory Governance: the rise of transnational regulatory networks
  08 February 2012 6:10 PM | No Comments

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• Fukuyama gets a letter from paranoid Hungary – but why not me?
  05 February 2012 12:21 PM | 1 Comment

  But like all state bureaucrats, and even like the Communist censors of the past regime, they miss the point of the article, thereby confirming and reinforcing the message. (Maybe it is at this point that Kovacs was trying to demonstrate that institutions DO matter).

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