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E uropean Energy Security: Natural Gas and the Integration Process
Author(s) -
Aalto Pami,
Korkmaz Temel Dicle
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
jcms: journal of common market studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.54
H-Index - 90
eISSN - 1468-5965
pISSN - 0021-9886
DOI - 10.1111/jcms.12108
Subject(s) - institution , context (archaeology) , sovereignty , diplomacy , energy security , political science , stewardship (theology) , economic system , process (computing) , international trade , business , public administration , economics , engineering , law , computer science , politics , geography , electrical engineering , renewable energy , operating system , archaeology
This article explores energy security and integration within the E uropean U nion (EU) in the case of natural gas. It theorizes the underlying institutional dynamics of integration by drawing upon the E nglish School as to how more deep‐seated informal institutions condition policy‐making by EU institutions and Member States as well as the operations of transnational actors such as energy companies. The informal institution of sovereignty constrains the push of the market institution towards a convergent type of integration. Together with the bilateral energy diplomacy and great power management institutions, sovereignty also limits integration in the external gas trade. Internal integration overall remains dependent on the wider E uropean context as is also seen in the functioning of the environmental stewardship institution. The ambiguities among actors occasioned by the implementation of the Third Energy Package suggest a further integration need, but that is constrained by several further driving forces.