1st Edition
Energy Security and Natural Gas Markets in Europe Lessons from the EU and the United States
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
- Introduction
- Energy Security Studies
- (Neo)Functionalism and New Institutional Economics
- Multilevel Governance Theory
- Discussion
- References
Part 2: Energy Policy in the European Union
3. Status Quo in European Union Energy Policy
- Introduction
- Markets
- Gas Infrastructure
- Regulatory Authorities
- Discussion
- References
4. Addressing Energy Security from Brussels – The Merits of Regulation 994/2010
- Introduction
- Towards Preventive Action Plans and Emergency Plans
- A First Litmus Test? "Stress Tests" During the Ukraine Crisis
- Conclusions
- References
Part 3: Case Studies
5. A Structural Lack of Investments in Natural Gas Infrastructure
- Introduction
- Why the European Union Status Quo Is Suboptimal
- Natural Gas Infrastructure in the United States
- Relations between Legislatures and Regulatory Authorities
- Revenues of Gas Transmission System Operators
- Private and Public Ownership, and Investments
- Decision-making Structures, Based on a MLG-Analysis
- Discussion
- References
6. The Political Minefield Called European Shale Gas
- Introduction
- Market Developments
- Environmental Concerns
- Regulation
- Gas Infrastructure
- Energy Security
- MLG Framework with Institutional Overview
- Discussion
- References
7. Europe’s Future Gas Market Structure – Tracing the US Example?
- Introduction
- Available and Planned Infrastructure
- Implementation of Legislation
- Market Trade and Long-Term Contracts
- The Role of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG)
- Discussion
- References
Part 4: Conclusions
8. Conclusions and Recommendations – A Long and Bumpy Road to European Union Energy Security
- European Union Energy Security
- European Union Energy Policy
- Reflection
Biography
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.
"Tim Boersma offers a thorough analysis of the institutional design of the EU energy market and whether it can provide the desired energy security... This book questions many assumptions that have been endorsed by the mainstream EU Studies. It spots the fundamental flaw of ‘functionalist thinking’ that assumes that once market trade provisions are in place, they spill over to regulation and infrastructure."
Irina Kustova, Energy Charter Secretariat, Brussels, Belgium, Journal of European Integration
