Power-loss or power-transition? Assessing the limits of using the energy sector in reviving Russia’s geopolitical stature

2010 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 263-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Mohsin Hashim
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Energy Sector ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Power Transition ◽  
Paper Briefly ◽  
Strategic Resources ◽  
Global Power ◽  
Oil And Natural Gas ◽  
Policy Objectives ◽  
Gorbachev Era

The paper seeks to evaluate the scope and limits of the Russian state’s capacity to use oil and natural gas as strategic resources to revive Russia’s fortunes as a credible global power. It offers an analysis of the evolution of state-markets interactions in the energy sector from the late Gorbachev era to the present day. The paper briefly documents how Russian foreign policy became more assertive using energy as a strategic resource, particularly in crafting its relations with the European Union. Subsequently, the paper analyzes Russia’s limits of using energy as leverage in securing foreign policy objectives. Finally, it points to the impediments to normalizing a Russo-EU energy dialog.

scholarly journals The Role of EU Innovation Policies in the Sustainable Development of the Energy Sector

2017 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 3-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olesea Sirbu ◽  
Rodica Crudu ◽  
Augustin Ignatov
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Energy Sector ◽  
Sustainable Growth ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Demographic Pressure ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Global Power ◽  
Energy Domain ◽  
The Impact

Abstract In the present conditions when the demographic pressure upon the environment is higher than ever, the humanity faces the challenge of sustainability. Namely the sustainability of human activities is important and nothing can assure it better than sustainable energy supplies. The European Union is the leading global power in terms of adjusting its policies to increase innovation to assure a sustainable growth of its energy sector as a key to an advanced economic system. The present research focuses on the impact of European Union policies on the sustainable development of its energy sector by analyzing quantitatively and qualitatively various indicators intended to offer a throughout insight. The results obtained focus on the identification of the main innovation paradigms; the description of the main modern environmental challenges, especially in the energy domain; the determination of the relation between innovation and energy sustainability, and its analysis at the level of European Union.

Global Power Transition and the Future of the European Union

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Birol A. Yeşilada ◽  
Jacek Kugler ◽  
Gaspare Genna ◽  
Osman Göktuğ Tanrıkulu
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Power Transition ◽  
Global Power ◽  
The Future

scholarly journals The place and role of the environment in the foreign policy of the Republic of Serbia

2013 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-237
Author(s):  
Dragoljub Todic
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
The European Union ◽  
International Treaties ◽  
Global Issues ◽  
The Status ◽  
Policy Objectives ◽  
The Republic ◽  
State Of The Environment

The paper points to some methodological and terminological dilemmas in defining the framework of the research as well as the linkage of environmental issues with other relevant issues. Based on the provisions contained in the strategic documents and relevant sources of law there have been analyzed factors that determine the place and the role of the environment in the foreign policy and they are as follows: the state of the environment, the policy objectives of the Republic Serbia (RS) in the environmental field, powers for dealing with environmental issues, powers and way of organizing foreign affairs, perspective of the RS membership in the European Union (EU), global and regional challenges in the environmental field, the place of international co-operation in environmental regulations, membership in international organizations in the environmental field, the status of the RS in international treaties in the environmental field, etc. The second part of the paper emphasizes the possibilities of strengthening the environmental role as a subject of co-operation in achieving certain objectives in the foreign policy of the RS. The author argues the thesis that the place and role of the environment in the foreign policy of the RS are not defined in a clear and precise manner. However, it can be said that the general framework is determined in large part by perspective of the RS membership in the EU and specific regional and global issues in the environmental field.

Morocco aims to grow its diplomatic clout

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Natural Gas ◽  
Energy Sector ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Western Sahara ◽  
Economic Output ◽  
Policy Objectives ◽  
International Companies

Subject Moroccan foreign policy. Significance Morocco's King Mohammed VI and Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari announced plans to construct a 4,000-kilometre pipeline to transport natural gas from Nigeria to Morocco during a Moroccan state visit in early December. The proposed pipeline could transform Morocco's energy sector and economic output, while paying significant diplomatic dividends on its most important foreign policy objectives. Impacts Morocco's move to build an LNG pipeline that traverses Western Sahara could spark renewed confrontations in the territory. It could also escalate tension with neighbouring Algeria. Morocco would face additional scrutiny from European states and institutions opposed to its use of Western Sahara resources. Tenders for expanding Morocco's LNG capacity and pipeline-related projects will provide numerous opportunities for international companies.

The EU Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime: between Self Help and Global Governance

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-33
Author(s):  
Nathanael Tilahun
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Global Governance ◽  
Tension Zone ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Policy Objectives ◽  
General Scope ◽  
The Eu

Abstract By adopting a Global Human Rights Sanctions regime, the European Union took a new step in leveraging its power to respond to human rights violations globally. The regime has a general scope, and targets both state and non-state actors. This paper shows that this regime occupies a tension zone between two competing approaches to sanctions: a self-help approach that perceives sanctions as deriving authority from states’ sovereignty and subservient to their foreign policy, and a global governance approach that views sanctions as deriving authority from and bound by the objectives of specific international legal regimes they enforce. The tension between these approaches comes into stark view when constructing the listing criteria and policy objectives of the sanctions, which determine the scope of targets and duration of measures. Whether and how subsequent practice resolves this tension will be determined by certain legislative and interpretive moves by the EU Council and Court.

10. The EU as a Global Actor

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Peterson ◽  
Marlene Gottwald
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Security Policy ◽  
Development Aid ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Global Power ◽  
Foreign And Security Policy ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Eu

This chapter focuses on the European Union as a global actor. The EU's ambitions to be a global power are a surprising by-product of European integration. Students of European foreign policy mostly focus on EU trade, aid, and the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP), but cannot neglect the extensive national foreign policy activities of its member states. The EU's external policy aspirations now extend to traditional foreign and security policy, but distinct national policies persist and the EU suffers from weak or fragmented leadership. The chapter first provides an overview of European foreign policy before discussing the EU's trade policy, development aid, and CFSP. It also examines theories that explain the EU's role as a global actor.

scholarly journals Priorities of foreign policy strategy of the Republic of Serbia

2009 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. 343-364
Author(s):  
Dragan Djukanovic ◽  
Ivona Ladjevac
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Western Balkans ◽  
Regional Organizations ◽  
Institutional Frameworks ◽  
Policy Objectives ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Republic

In this article, the authors point to the basic priorities the future foreign policy of the Republic of Serbia should include. They point out that a basic social and political consensus on the most important foreign policy objectives should be primarily achieved. Afterwards, the way of tactical and operational implementation of the set objectives should be defined within the strategy specifying the constitutional and legal institutional frameworks for its implementation. Considerable attention is devoted to the positioning of the Republic of Serbia to the European Union and NATO, the United States of America and the Russian Federation as well as to the participation of Serbia in the work of universal and regional organizations. The paper also analyses the bilateral and multilateral relations in the Western Balkans region.

scholarly journals Legal framework for Azerbaijan – EU cooperation in the energy sector

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Nazim Nizami Abdullayev
Keyword(s):  
Legal Framework ◽  
Energy Sector ◽  
The European Union ◽  
South Caucasus ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
Bilateral Agreements ◽  
Caucasus Region ◽  
Oil And Natural Gas ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Energy Relations

This article is dedicated to the analysis of legal framework of Azerbaijan – EU relations in the energy sector. The relevance of this topic in recent months is substantiated by change in geopolitical realities of the South Caucasus Region, and discussions on unblocking economic and transport communications that intensified after the Second Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict. The region is an interlink between Asia and Europe; and Azerbaijan, being an exporter of oil and natural gas, is an important energy partner of the European Union. The flip of political situation in the region in the nearest future would change not only the energy relations between the countries of the region, but also EU and EAEU members-states. The subject of this research is the bilateral agreements, memoranda and joint declarations adopted by the parties in 30 years since reestablishment of the independence of Azerbaijan. Special attention is given to the vectors of cooperation of the parties both pertaining to extraction and transit of energy resources from South Caucasus and Central Asia. The author employs general dialectical, logical, historical, descriptive, formal-legal approach methods of research methods to determine the key trends and characteristics of the legal framework of Azerbaijan – EU relations in the energy sector. The scientific novelty of lies in the analysis of normative legal framework of cooperation in the energy sector beyond the context of general political and economic relations, as well as in outlining the peculiarities of legal framework of such cooperation. The conclusion is made that the cooperation between the two parties in the energy sector leans on the framework rather than binding legal agreement, which allows both parties to develop relations in the energy sector as mutually beneficial projects based on the market principles.

scholarly journals America’s T-Strategy

2015 ◽  
Vol 45 (181) ◽  
Author(s):  
Malte Daniljuk
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Energy Costs ◽  
American Empire ◽  
The European Union ◽  
New Production ◽  
Trade Routes ◽  
Elite Networks ◽  
World Markets ◽  
Oil And Natural Gas ◽  
Production Technologies

The recent escalation of conflicts in the periphery of the European Union and the changes in transatlantic foreign policy can be understood partially as the result of a reorganization of the global energy policy. After the financial crisis of 2008, the new US administration pursued a strategy of lowering the energy costs. The necessary surpluses were created by new production technologies of oil and natural gas (fracking). Part of this successful strategy was a partial military withdrawal from conflict regions and a reduction of the direct involvement in the Greater Middle East. Starting from a highly productive heartland, the American Empire opens up world markets and secures global trade routes. The Transatlantic and Transpacific Free Trade Agreements (TTIP and TPP) are supposed to trigger a new economic stimulus with North America at its center: America’s T-Strategy. Analyzing the development of energy policies and foreign policy discussions within elite networks, the article argues that this strategy is directed mainly against the rising powers Russia and China.

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