New Politics of Energy Security in the European Union and Beyond

Andrea Prontera is Assistant Professor of International Relations and EU Institutions and Policies in the Department of Political Science, Communication and International Relations at the University of Macerata, Italy. His main research interests and publications lie in the areas of international political economy, comparative public policy and energy policy.

• 1. Introduction 2. The Politics of EU External Energy Governance: the Caspian Sea Basin and Central Asia 3. The New Politics of Pipeline: from the North Stream to the Southern Gas Corridor 4. The Politics of LNG Development in Western and Eastern Europe 5. The Offshore Frontiers of Energy Security in the Mediterranean 6. Conclusion

"A cogent and highly readable book about the politics of energy security in Europe and beyond. Analyzing oil and particularly natural gas developments in a wide area stretching from the Baltic to the Mediterranean sea, Andrea Prontera convincingly demonstrates that energy security is neither a matter of geopolitics, or of markets, but rather of both." -Thijs Van de Graaf, Assistant Professor of International Politics at the Department of Political Science at Ghent University in Belgium."Eschewing traditional approaches and dichotomies, this book takes us on a fascinating journey to understand the transformation of European politics of energy security over the past decades. The book definitely succeeds in unpacking the meshing of old and new dynamics in a lucid, insightful and instructive way." - Anna Herranz-Surrallés, Maastricht University, Netherlands."This book offers an innovative insight into the politics of energy security in the European Union, for which existing literature has sometimes proposed rather simplistic explanations. Andrea Prontera aims to explain the European approach to security of supply by proposing three theses."Francesca Batzella, University of Hertfordshire, UK