Energy Security: Europe's New Foreign Policy Challenge

ISBN-13: 9780415478045 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 256 str.

Richard Youngs

Opis

Energy Security has come to dominate core debates in international relations. The European Union has committed itself to elaborating a more effective and coherent energy security strategy and has promised to systematically incorporate energy considerations into the EU foreign and security policy.

This book charts the EU’s response to the challenge of energy security, focussing on the foreign policy dimensions of energy security, rather than internal market issues or the development of renewable sources of energy. It examines how the EU’s general approach to energy security has played out in the specific political contexts of different producer countries and regions. Youngs explains and illuminates such policy evolution through reference to both analytical explanations of the EU as a foreign policy actor and broader international relations and international political economy frameworks. The book features specific chapters on European energy initiatives, the Middle East, Russia, Central Asia, Africa and the role of European oil companies.

This book will be of interest to students, scholars and policy makers in the fields of European/EU politics, energy politics, foreign policy and international relations.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Concepts of Energy Security and EU Foreign Policy  3. The Policy Response: European Energy Initative  4. The Middle East  5. Russia  6. Central Asia and the Caspian  7. Sub-Saharan Africa  8. The Role of European Oil Companies  9. Conclusions

O autorze

Richard Youngs is Lecturer at the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick, UK and Director of the Democratisation programme at FRIDE in Madrid, Spain.