Editors:
- Presents a theoretically grounded analysis of how energy becomes a security issue in various energy sectors and in different countries
- Explores important and under-researched issues of energy security outside of the usual oil and gas nexus, such as electricity
- Questions whether energy governance by the European Union has changed since the Ukraine Crisis that began in 2014
Part of the book series: Energy, Climate and the Environment (ECE)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Internal EU Dynamics of Energy Securitisation: Divergent Perceptions
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Europe’s External Policy Challenges: Critical Perspectives on Energy Security
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Back Matter
About this book
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 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 securitystudies, 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.
Reviews
“The book makes a valuable contribution to the study of energy security for both academics and practitioners.” (Francesca Vantaggiato, JCMS Journal of Common Market Studies, Vol. 57 (5), September, 2019)
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Political Science, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Kacper Szulecki
About the editor
Kacper Szulecki is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Oslo, Norway.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Energy Security in Europe
Book Subtitle: Divergent Perceptions and Policy Challenges
Editors: Kacper Szulecki
Series Title: Energy, Climate and the Environment
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64964-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-64963-4Published: 02 November 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87912-3Published: 22 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-64964-1Published: 13 October 2017
Series ISSN: 2947-8561
Series E-ISSN: 2947-857X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 351
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environmental Policy, Energy Security, Energy Policy, Economics and Management, Environmental Politics