1st Edition
Romania as an Energy Actor in the EU Cooperation in European Energy policy
The purpose of this book is twofold. First, it aims to explain the general framework for cooperation in the energy sector in Europe, with a conceptual basis that allows for a better understanding of the dynamics that led to its existence. Second, the volume deals with Romania both as a representative case for the region, given the commonalities raised by the transition process in the last three decades, and also as a country with a specific energy agenda, with implications for internal and foreign policy that can only be perceived and understood in the Romanian context.
1 Introduction – theoretical and political relevance
General Methodological Considerations
Structure
2 Regional Cooperation – A Short Theoretical Perspective
Regional Cooperation
Region, Regionalism, and Regionalisation
Regionalism from a Historical Perspective
Actoriality in regionalism
The vectors of regionalism
Projecting national interest at the level of regional cooperation platforms
3 Platforms of cooperation in the field of energy in Central and South Eastern Europe
Cooperation of system operators
The cooperation framework of operators in the field of electricity
Cooperation for the functioning of the electro-energetic system
Cooperation for the purpose of system development
Cooperation for the implementation of the free market principles
The cooperation frame of the operators from the gas sector
Cooperation for operating the gas system
Cooperation for implementing the principles of the free market
Cooperation for developing the gas system
From regional cooperation to political regions in the field of energy
Cooperation of the energy market regulating authorities
Regional initiatives of ACER and cooperation based on the principles of the Third Energy Package
Other cooperation platforms of the authorities regulating the energy market
ERRA
CEER
EnR
4 Regional cooperation frameworks outside the third energy package
The Energy Community
Initiatives in the field of energy infrastructure
The Western Balkan 6 Initiative or the Berlin Process (WB6)
EU4Energy Governance
CESEC
The Energy Charter Treaty
The 16+1 energy cooperation format
The Eastern Partnership
INOGATE
The Three Seas Initiative
5 The regulation of regional energy cooperation in Romania
The National Defence Strategy
The Energy Strategy
The role of the Ministry of Energy as an actor in the regional cooperation process in the field of energy
The role of the ANRE as an actor in the process of regional cooperation in the field of energy
The role of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as an actor in the process of regional cooperation in the field of energy
Conclusion
6 Conclusions
General Conclusions
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Anca Sinea is a researcher in the Political Science Department of the Babei-Bolyai University. She holds a PhD in Political Science. She has a double Bachelor’s degree in International Relations (from the National School for Political and Administrative Studies, Bucharest) and Political Science (Université Paris X) and a Master’s diploma in International Relations from the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna and the University of Vienna. Her subjects of interest include resource politics, energy diplomacy, diplomatic protocol and national security.
