Energy Union

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxi

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2. Introduction: Perspectives, Aims and Contributions

   • Svein S. Andersen, Andreas Goldthau, Nick Sitter

   Pages 1-10

3. The EU and the Global Political Economy of Energy

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11

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   2. From Low to High Politics? The EU’s Regulatory and Economic Power

      • Svein S. Andersen, Andreas Goldthau, Nick Sitter

      Pages 13-26

   3. The Road to Energy Union

      • Jean-Arnold Vinois

      Pages 27-50

   4. The Global Dimension of EU Energy Policy

      • Øystein Noreng

      Pages 51-82

4. High Politics: The New Security Dimension of European Energy Policy

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 83-83

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   2. Geopolitics and the Foreign Policy Dimension of EU Energy Security

      • Luca Franza, Coby Van Der Linde

      Pages 85-98

   3. Wither the EU’s Market Making Project in Energy: From Liberalization to Securitization?

      • Tim Boersma, Andreas Goldthau

      Pages 99-113

   4. The Hunter Becomes the Hunted: Gazprom Encounters EU Regulation

      • Indra Overland

      Pages 115-130

5. Low Politics: The Regulatory Dimension of European Energy Policy

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 131-132

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   2. An Industry Perspective: The Primacy of Market-Building

      • Sebastian Eyre

      Pages 133-146

   3. Regulating for Consumers? The Agency for Cooperation of Energy Regulators

      • Michael Carnegie Labelle

      Pages 147-164

   4. The Energy Network: Infrastructure as the Hardware of the Energy Union

      • Adina Crisan, Maximilian Kuhn

      Pages 165-182

6. Contesting the Energy Union

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 183-184

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   2. An Odd Pro-Market Trio: Germany, the UK and Norway

      • Svein S. Andersen, Andreas Goldthau, Nick Sitter

      Pages 185-200

   3. No United Front: The Political Economy of Energy in Central and Eastern Europe

      • Andrej Nosko, Matúš Mišík

      Pages 201-222

   4. Something for Everyone: Political Fragmentation and Policy Accommodation in the European Parliament

      • Michiel van Hulten, Nick Sitter

      Pages 223-236

   5. Conclusion: Liberal Mercantilism?

      • Svein S. Andersen, Andreas Goldthau, Nick Sitter

      Pages 237-241

7. Back Matter

   Pages 243-253

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This book contributes to an ongoing debate about the EU as a global actor, the organization’s ability to speak with one voice in energy affairs, and the external dimension of the regulatory state. Investigating whether the Energy Union amounts to a fundamental shift towards Europe's new 'Liberal Mercantilism', it gathers high-level contributors from academia and the policy world to shed light on the changing nature of the EU's use of power in one of its most crucial policy fields. It argues that the Energy Union epitomizes a change in the EU’s approach to managing its economic power. Whilst the EU remains committed to a liberal approach to international political economy, it seems ready to promote regulation for the purpose of augmenting its own power at the expense of others, notably Russia. This edited collection will appeal to political scientists, economists and energy experts.

• Policy
• Economic power
• Russia
• Regulation
• Governance
• Geopolitics
• International Relations
• european union politics

• BI Norwegian Business School, Oslo, Norway

  Svein S. Andersen, Nick Sitter

• Royal Holloway University of London, Hungary

  Andreas Goldthau

Nick Sitter is Professor of Political Economy at the Department of Law at the BI Norwegian Business School, Norway, and Professor of Public Policy at Central European University’s School of Public Policy, Hungary.


Andreas Goldthau is Professor of International Relations at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. He is also an Associate at the Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, USA, and Fellow at the Global Public Policy Institute, Germany.



Svein S. Andersen is Professor of Organization Studies at BI Norwegian BusinessSchool, Norway. 

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