Open AccessEnergy Problems in USA-UE Foreign Policy: Between Independence and Interdependence
Author(s) -
O. Khlopov
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
bûlletenʹ nauki i praktiki
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2414-2948
DOI - 10.33619/2414-2948/57/24
Subject(s) - foreign policy , energy policy , energy security , european union , energy (signal processing) , international trade , energy independence , ideology , independence (probability theory) , foreign policy analysis , economic system , foreign relations , political science , international economics , business , political economy , economics , politics , engineering , law , renewable energy , statistics , electrical engineering , mathematics
The article is devoted to the study of energy problems in the foreign policy of the EU and the United States. The analysis of the paper is formed on a cognitive approach in analyzing the foreign policy making process and explores the relationship between energy and foreign policy of the EU and the USA. Based on the comparative method, the study races the role of the energy factor in shaping the foreign policy of the European Union and the United States. Although the US is the world's largest hydrocarbon producer and net exporter of energy, mainly due to its shale deposits, the EU remains the world's largest energy importer. This significant difference provides an opportunity to compare the role of energy in the foreign policy process of the two participants with completely different potential for the production and export, mostly of hydrocarbon resources. The author argues that the energy security strategies of both actors are based on interaction of material and ideological factors, but they have different ideas about the interests that generate their foreign policy behavior.