Energy Security and Natural Gas Markets in Europe: Lessons from the Eu and the United States

ISBN-13: 9781138574915 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 196 str.

Tim Boersma

Opis

Moving beyond most conventional thinking about energy security in Europe which revolves around stability of supplies and the reliability of suppliers, this book presents the history of European policy-making regarding energy resources, including recent controversies about shale gas and fracking.

Spis treści

Summary for Policy Makers  1. Europe’s Focus on Available Natural Gas Supplies, and Why There Is More To It  Part 1: Framework of Analysis  2. How to Analyze European Union Energy Security  Part 2: Energy Policy in the European Union  3. Status Quo in European Union Energy Policy  4. Addressing Energy Security from Brussels – The Merits of Regulation 994/2010  Part 3: Case Studies  5. A Structural Lack of Investments in Natural Gas Infrastructure  6. The Political Minefield Called European Shale Gas  7. Europe’s Future Gas Market Structure – Tracing the US Example?  Part 4: Conclusions  8. Conclusions and Recommendations – A Long and Bumpy Road to European Union Energy Security 

O autorze

Tim Boersma is a Fellow and Acting Director of the Energy Security Initiative, part of the Foreign Policy Program at the Brookings Institution, Washington DC, USA. He has a PhD in international relations from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, and has previously been a Research Fellow, Transatlantic Academy, Washington, DC, and Visiting Scholar at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University.