Geo-Politics of the Euro-Asia Energy Nexus: The European Union, Russia and Turkey (New Security Challenges)

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Maps, Tables and Figures......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 10
List of Abbreviations and Acronyms......Page 11
Europe’s security, Russian energy and Turkey’s EU accession bid......Page 14
Our purpose......Page 17
Plan of the book......Page 21
Part I: EU Energy Policy......Page 24
Introduction: the energisation of European Energy Policy......Page 26
European Energy Policy: a crystallising concept......Page 28
Policy evolution......Page 30
Historical roots of EU energy policy......Page 32
Stumbling blocks to common energy policy......Page 39
Conclusion......Page 48
Introduction: growing EU apprehension of energy vulnerability......Page 50
The EU as energy consumer par excellence......Page 51
Europe’s external energy policies: groping towards coherency......Page 53
The EU’s diverse relations with major energy producers......Page 61
Theoretical reflections on (external) energy policy......Page 70
Conclusion......Page 75
Part II: The European Union, Russia and Other Actors......Page 78
Introduction: primus inter pares – Russia in EU energy security......Page 80
A Russo-centric profile of EU energy security......Page 82
‘Thou shalt not pass’? The problematic movement of Russian hydrocarbons to Europe......Page 95
‘Externalising’ EU energy policy ‘upstream’......Page 99
Cutting out the ‘middleman’: direct pipelines to Russia......Page 105
Conclusion......Page 107
Introduction: no refrain from the ‘great game’......Page 109
EU energy relations branch out beyond Russia......Page 111
Gas ‘w-a-r-s’......Page 118
Conclusion: will the EU end up energy diversified or upended by Russia?......Page 131
Introduction: opportunities and blindspots in the EU’s quest for new foreign energy supplies......Page 133
The EU’S access to world hydrocarbon reserves......Page 135
The EU and Caspian energy......Page 137
Chinese resource demand and EU energy security......Page 146
Conclusion: Asian bumps or craters in the way of EU energy security?......Page 154
Part III: Turkey as a Transit and Candidate Country......Page 156
Introduction......Page 158
Turkey’s energy profile in brief......Page 159
Turkey’s existing and planned pipeline systems......Page 162
Nabucco and Russia: a pyrrhic victory for the EU?......Page 176
Conclusion......Page 177
Introduction......Page 179
Turkey–EU relations and cooperation in energy issues......Page 180
European views of Turkey’s energy role......Page 183
The Turkish view of energy cooperation with the EU......Page 191
The EU–Turkey energy nexus: step to full membership or bilateral cooperation?......Page 197
Conclusion: energy security and belonging......Page 199
Introduction: EU energy security – more than a civil affair......Page 201
The EU: energy needy and challenged......Page 202
Giving external face and voice to European Energy Policy......Page 204
Contentment and disquiet in the EU-Russian energy house......Page 206
How can the EU get anything past Russia?......Page 207
Turkey’s EU membership through secure energy corridorship......Page 209
Notes......Page 212
References......Page 215
Index......Page 235