Energy Security in Europe: Divergent Perceptions and Policy Challenges

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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. 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. 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. Front Matter ....Pages i-xv The Multiple Faces of Energy Security: An Introduction (Kacper Szulecki)....Pages 1-29 Front Matter ....Pages 31-31 Energy Securitisation: Applying the Copenhagen School’s Framework to Energy (Andreas Heinrich, Kacper Szulecki)....Pages 33-59 Securitisation in the Gas Sector: Energy Security Debates Concerning the Example of the Nord Stream Pipeline (Andreas Heinrich)....Pages 61-91 Politics and Knowledge Production: Between Securitisation and Riskification of the Shale Gas Issue in Poland and Germany (Aleksandra Lis)....Pages 93-115 Energy Security and Energy Transition: Securitisation in the Electricity Sector (Kacper Szulecki, Julia Kusznir)....Pages 117-148 Energy Securitisation: Avenues for Future Research (Andrew Judge, Tomas Maltby, Kacper Szulecki)....Pages 149-173 Front Matter ....Pages 175-175 Taking Security Seriously in EU Energy Governance: Crimean Shock and the Energy Union (Kacper Szulecki, Kirsten Westphal)....Pages 177-202 Unpacking the Nexus Between Market Liberalisation and Desecuritisation in Energy (Irina Kustova)....Pages 203-220 EU Gas Supply Security: The Power of the Importer (Jakub M. Godzimirski, Zuzanna Nowak)....Pages 221-249 Identities and Vulnerabilities: The Ukraine Crisis and the Securitisation of the EU-Russia Gas Trade (Marco Siddi)....Pages 251-273 Positive and Negative Security: A Consequentialist Approach to EU Gas Supply (Paulina Landry)....Pages 275-310 The Global Oil Market and EU Energy Security (Dag Harald Claes)....Pages 311-331 Back Matter ....Pages 333-351