Energy challenges in the Middle East and North Africa
By Edward Burke, Ana Echagüe, Richard Youngs (10/11/2008)
In 2020 the European Union will be more dependent on oil and gas from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), and will also face tougher International competition for access to the region’s supplies.
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Development, security and energy: improving coherence
By Amelia Hadfield, Richard Youngs (02/10/2008)
The ethos of EU development policy is changing. Incorporating both political and security goals, EU development co-operation has taken on a more holistic identity.
Oil companies and the EU' s external energy policies
By Richard Youngs (16/09/2008)
European oil companies should attach greater priority to the systematic incorporation of energy questions into CFSP. They should also support a CFSP approach to energy security that is based on enhancing governance standards in producer states.
The politics of energy
By Jos Boonstra, Edward Burke, Richard Youngs (12/09/2008)
In this working paper, the authors Jos Boonstra, Edward Burke and Richard Youngs evaluate the complex relationship between energy and democracy by looking at the examples of Azerbaijan, Nigeria and Saudi Arabia.
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Ukraine: lynchpin for european energy security
By Natalia Shapovalova (01/08/2008)
A 2006 dispute between Russia and Ukraine over gas prices cast a sobering shadow over EU energy security and galvanised new European energy initiatives. Energy-related tension between Russia and Ukraine has continued since that time with periodic flare-ups.
Energy: a reinforced obstacle to democracy?
By Richard Youngs (30/07/2008)
This paper reveals that the opaque management of increased oil and gas revenues has sparked pressure for governance reforms from within producer states and has also encouraged new international initiatives linking energy security with good governance.
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Spain and Equatorial Guinea: a triumph of energy realism?
By Edward Burke (08/07/2008)
In a period when international condemnation of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s regime has reached new heights, events in another African country with an appalling human rights record have embroiled Spain in accusations related to a now-infamous mercenary plot. In this Comment article Edward Burke explores events leading up to Simon Mann’s detention and the political row that followed.
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Energy and Development: lessons from Nigeria
By Anna Khakee (23/06/2008)
Nigeria, and in particular the Niger Delta, have all the components of failed development: deep poverty, corruption and neglect, disenfranchised ethnic minorities, self-serving multinational oil companies, environmental degradation, destruction of livelihoods, gang violence, civil strife, and despair.
Europe's external energy policy: between geopolitics and the market
By Richard Youngs (23/11/2007)
While energy security has gradually been incorporated into the EU's foreign policy calculus, the declared approach of extending a nexus of "market-governance" energy norms has been realised only to a limited extent. The EU has eschewed a comprehensively political approach to energy security, with its energy security policy currently hovering ineffectively between market and geopolitical approaches. The EU needs to address more effectively the way in which governance structures in producer states impact upon European energy interests.
European Energy Security: balancing Priorities
By John Gault (17/05/2007)
Energy security is only one of three goals stated in the European Commission’s Communication on energy policy issued last January. The Communication, called for “sustainable, secure and competitive energy”, proposed a series of actions to advance each of these three goals, but was silent on the extent to which the pursuit of one goal may actually frustrate the achievement of another.
Europe's energy policy: economics, ethics, geopolitics
By Richard Youngs (10/01/2007)
Ten months after the European Commission's energy green paper was published, the EU's approach to the foreign policy dimension of energy security continues to be unduly narrow and short-termist.
Europe and the Middle East: In the Shadow of September 11
