Lietuvos ir Baltarusijos energetinis saugumas: kontekstas ir ypatumai
Lithuanian and Belarusian energy security: context and peculiarity

Summary/Abstract: Energy security is an integral part of national security in Lithuania as well as Belarus. In the energy sector the two countries are both dependent on a single supplier – Russia, but the geopolitical and societal context of this dependence is substantially different. As a part of Western geopolitical cons-tellation – NATO and EU – Lithuania stands for the democratic governance and private sector-based market economy, whereas the Belarusian regime favours a major state involvement in the economy and has entered various Russia-dominated integration projects of the post-Soviet space. Despite the differences that result in significantly diverging energy policies, there is still a common ground for cooperation between the two countries as well as for a dialogue between the respective scientific communities. In the special issue, the Lithuanian and Belarusian researchers present their insights on the con-ceptual and methodological issues of energy security assessment from quan-titative, as well as qualitative approach.

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