Energy Security In Europe: Divergent Perceptions And Policy Challenges (energy, Climate And The Environment)
by Kacper Szulecki /
2017 / English / PDF
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This edited collection highlights the different meanings that
have been attached to the notion of energy security and how it
is taken to refer to different objects. Official policy
definitions of energy security are broadly similar across
countries and emphasize the reliability and affordability of
access to sufficient energy resources for a community to uphold
its normal economic and social functions. However, perceptions
of energy security vary between states causing different
actions to be taken, both in international relations and in
domestic politics.
This edited collection highlights the different meanings that
have been attached to the notion of energy security and how it
is taken to refer to different objects. Official policy
definitions of energy security are broadly similar across
countries and emphasize the reliability and affordability of
access to sufficient energy resources for a community to uphold
its normal economic and social functions. However, perceptions
of energy security vary between states causing different
actions to be taken, both in international relations and in
domestic politics.Energy Security in Europe
Energy Security in Europe moves the policy debates on
energy security beyond a consideration of its seemingly
objective nature. It also provides a series of contributions
that shed light on the conditions under which similar material
factors are met with very different energy security policies
and divergent discourses across Europe. Furthermore, it
problematizes established notions prevalent in energy security
studies, such as whether energy security is ‘geopolitical’, and
an element of high politics, or purely ‘economic’, and should
be left for the markets to regulate.
moves the policy debates on
energy security beyond a consideration of its seemingly
objective nature. It also provides a series of contributions
that shed light on the conditions under which similar material
factors are met with very different energy security policies
and divergent discourses across Europe. Furthermore, it
problematizes established notions prevalent in energy security
studies, such as whether energy security is ‘geopolitical’, and
an element of high politics, or purely ‘economic’, and should
be left for the markets to regulate.
This book will be of particular relevance to students and
academics in the fields of energy studies and political science
seeking to understand the divergence in perspectives and
understandings of energy security challenges between EU member
states and in multilateral relationships between the EU as a
whole.
This book will be of particular relevance to students and
academics in the fields of energy studies and political science
seeking to understand the divergence in perspectives and
understandings of energy security challenges between EU member
states and in multilateral relationships between the EU as a
whole.