1st Edition

Renegotiating Authority in EU Energy and Climate Policy

168 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge

In the context of multiple crises, EU Energy and Climate policy is often identi□ed as one of the few areas still exhibiting strong integration dynamics. However, this domain is not exempt from contestation and re-nationalization pressures. This collection seeks to understand those contradictory integration and disintegration tendencies by problematizing the notion of authority: When, why, and by... Read more

1. Renegotiating authority in the Energy Union: A Framework for Analysis 
Anna Herranz-Surralleìs, Israel Solorio and Jenny Fairbrass 
2. Conferring authority in the European Union: citizens’ policy priorities for the European Energy Union 
Jale Tosun and Mile Mišic 
3. EU energy policy integration as embedded intergovernmentalism: the case of Energy Union governance 
Pierre Bocquillon and Tomas Maltby 
4. Private authority in tackling cross-border issues. The hidden path of integrating European energy markets 
Sandra Eckert and Burkard Eberlein 
5. Contested energy transition? Europeanization and authority turns in EU renewable energy policy 
Israel Solorio and Helge Jörgens 
6. Defusing contested authority: EU energy efficiency policymaking 
Claire Dupont 
7. Power, authority and security: the EU’s Russian gas dilemma 
Andreas Goldthau and Nick Sitter 
8. Gazprom’s Nord Stream 2 and diffuse authority in the EU: managing authority challenges regarding Russian gas supplies through the Baltic Sea 
Anke Schmidt-Felzmann 
9. EU foreign policy and energy strategy: bounded contestation 
Richard Youngs 

Biography

Anna Herranz-Surralleìs is Associate Professor of International Relations at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University, the Netherlands. She specialises in EU external energy policy and foreign investment governance, with a focus on the nexus between security, sustainability and democracy.

Israel Solorio is Associate Professor at the School of Political and Social Sciences, National Autonomous University of Mexico. His research focuses on the interlinkage between climate and energy policies, having expertise on energy transitions, the promotion of renewable energy and the democratization of energy, policy integration and national climate policies and socio-environmental conflicts around energy projects.

Jenny Fairbrass is Associate Professor of Business and Management at Norwich Business School, University of East Anglia, UK. Jenny’s research primarily revolves around EU public-policy and policy-making processes with a focus on the interface between sustainability, environmental, and energy policy as well as Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Business Ethics.