Essays about: "EU common external energy policy"
Found 4 essays containing the words EU common external energy policy.
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1. The climate, energy, and external actions nexus - A critical discourse analysis of the EU’s external climate and energy strategy in the emerging geopolitics of renewables
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : The energy crisis in Europe has recently highlighted vulnerabilities that experts have recognised for a long time. The EU relies heavily on fossil fuel imports from Russia to supply its citizens with affordable energy. READ MORE
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2. The European Union and Russian Federation Energy Relations: Petrification or Revival?
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : This thesis is devoted to understand the relationships between the European Union (EU) and Russian Federation (RF). The study is concentrated on the fields of energy (Oil and Gas) in their strategic partnership. The events during the last century in the global energy markets have put the European Union face to face with new challenges. READ MORE
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3. European Energy Security: Exploring the Development of EU's External Energy Policy
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : In order to explain the driving forces behind the development of a common external energy policy, the thesis investigates the gas interdependence between EU and Russia, and the implications for EU of being highly dependent on supplies from a single provider. The main argument of this thesis is that external stimuli, challenging European energy security, spur intergovernmental cooperation and lead to increased coordination of external energy policies in the EU. READ MORE
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4. European energy security: Prospects of the Caspian basin
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : Depletion of the indigenous energy resources of the EU, growing dependence on the external energy supplies, volatile prices of the global energy resources, increasing global rivalry for hydrocarbon reserves and recent Russian-Ukrainian disputes over natural gas prices which as a consequence has resulted in gas supply disruptions to several EU member states escalated the significance of the European energy security in the EU’s political agenda. Bearing in mind the aforesaid factors, the main argument of this thesis is to emphasize that diversification of energy supply and routes and the establishment of common external energy policy are substantial steps towards the maintenance of the European energy security. READ MORE