Tim Boersma is a Fellow and Acting Director of the Energy Security Initiative, part of the Foreign Policy Program at the Brookings Institution, Washington DC, USA. He has a PhD in international relations from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, and has previously been a Research Fellow, Transatlantic Academy, Washington, DC, and Visiting Scholar at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University.

• Summary for Policy Makers 1. Europe’s Focus on Available Natural Gas Supplies, and Why There Is More To It Part 1: Framework of Analysis 2. How to Analyze European Union Energy Security Part 2: Energy Policy in the European Union 3. Status Quo in European Union Energy Policy 4. Addressing Energy Security from Brussels – The Merits of Regulation 994/2010 Part 3: Case Studies 5. A Structural Lack of Investments in Natural Gas Infrastructure 6. The Political Minefield Called European Shale Gas 7. Europe’s Future Gas Market Structure – Tracing the US Example? Part 4: Conclusions 8. Conclusions and Recommendations – A Long and Bumpy Road to European Union Energy Security

"Tim Boersma offers a thorough analysis of the institutional design of the EU energy market and whether it can provide the desired energy security... This book questions many assumptions that have been endorsed by the mainstream EU Studies. It spots the fundamental flaw of ‘functionalist thinking’ that assumes that once market trade provisions are in place, they spill over to regulation and infrastructure." Irina Kustova, Energy Charter Secretariat, Brussels, Belgium, Journal of European Integration