Launch of a book published by Oxford University Press. The first study to provide an in-depth analysis of market, legal/regulatory, and energy security aspects of the transit of Russian gas to Europe across western CIS countries – Ukraine, Belarus, and Moldova – to Europe. The book analyses how EU transit, and hence energy, security is affected by the governance structures of the Eurasian gas network and by asymmetrical power relations between its actors, in particular between Russia and western CIS states and their national gas companies.Participation in CEPS meetings is a benefit of membership.