A Liberal Actor in a Realist World: The European Union Regulatory State and the Global Political Economy of Energy

by Andreas Goldthau and Nick Sitter

Since 1992, the European Union has put liberalisation at the core of its energy policy agenda. This aspiration was very much in line with an international political economy driven by the neo-liberal (Washington) consensus. The central challenge for the EU is that the energy world has changed, while the EU has not. The rise of Asian energy consumers (China and India), more assertive energy producers (Russia), and the threat of climate change have securitized...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198719590
• ISBN13: 9780198719595
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.3"