Alexander J. Motyl: War and energy in Ukraine

Picture taken on October 12, 2014 shows a miner moving by crawling in an illegal coal mine near Torez 60 kilometers east of Donetsk.
The following is an interview with Margarita Balmaceda, Professor of Diplomacy and International Relations at Seton Hall University. She is the author of The Politics of Energy Dependency: Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania Between Domestic Oligarchs and Russian Pressure.