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A Liberal Actor in a Realist World - The European Union Regulatory State and the Global Political Economy of Energy (Hardcover)
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A Liberal Actor in a Realist World - The European Union Regulatory State and the Global Political Economy of Energy (Hardcover)
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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 the IPE of energy, and turned it more 'realist'. The
main research question is therefore: 'What does a liberal actor do
in a realist world?' The overall answer as far as the EU is
concerned is that it approaches energy challenges as a problem of
market failure: imperfect competition on the supply side;
inadequate supply of public goods on the demand side and in terms
of infrastructure; and large externalities that arise both from
non-energy events and from large-scale consumption of fossil fuels.
A Liberal Actor in a Realist World assesses the changing nature of
the global political economy of energy and the European Union's
response, and the external dimension of the regulatory state. The
book concludes that the EU's soft power has a hard edge, which is
derived primarily from its regulatory power. This works best when
it targets companies rather than governments, and it is more
effective in the 'Near Abroad' than at the global level. This makes
the EU emerge an actor in its own right in the global political
economy of energy - a 'Regulatory Power Europe'.
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