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ENERGY SECURITY IN EUROPE GEBUNDEN

This edited collection highlights the different meanings that have been attached to the notion
of energy security and how it is taken to refer to different objects. Official policy
definitions of energy security are broadly similar across countries and emphasize the
reliability and affordability of access to sufficient energy resources for a community to
uphold its normal economic and social functions. However  perceptions of energy security vary
between states causing different actions to be taken  both in international relations and in
domestic politics. Energy Security in Europe moves the policy debates on energy security beyond
a consideration of its seemingly objective nature. It also provides a series of contributions
that shed light on the conditions under which similar material factors are met with very
different energy security policies and divergent discourses across Europe. Furthermore  it
problematizes established notions prevalent in energy security studies  such as whether energy
security is 'geopolitical'  and an element of high politics  or purely 'economic'  and should
be left for the markets to regulate. This book will be of particular relevance to students and
academics in the fields of energy studies and political science seeking to understand the
divergence in perspectives and understandings of energy security challenges between EU member
states and in multilateral relationships between the EU as a whole.

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