Romania as an Energy Actor in the EU

The purpose of this book is twofold. First, it aims to explain the general framework for cooperation in the energy sector in Europe, with a conceptual basis that allows for a better understanding of the dynamics that led to its existence. Second, the volume deals with Romania both as a representative case for the region, given the commonalities raised by the transition process in the last three decades, and also as a country with a specific energy agenda, with implications for internal and foreign policy that can only be perceived and understood in the Romanian context.

Autorentext

Anca Sinea is a researcher in the Political Science Department of the Babei-Bolyai University. She holds a PhD in Political Science. She has a double Bachelor's degree in International Relations (from the National School for Political and Administrative Studies, Bucharest) and Political Science (Université Paris X) and a Master's diploma in International Relations from the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna and the University of Vienna. Her subjects of interest include resource politics, energy diplomacy, diplomatic protocol and national security.

Inhalt

1 Introduction - theoretical and political relevance

General Methodological Considerations

Structure

2 Regional Cooperation - A Short Theoretical Perspective * Regional Cooperation

• Region, Regionalism, and Regionalisation

Regionalism from a Historical Perspective

Actoriality in regionalism * The vectors of regionalism

Projecting national interest at the level of regional cooperation platforms*

3 Platforms of cooperation in the field of energy in Central and South Eastern Europe * Cooperation of system operators

• The cooperation framework of operators in the field of electricity

Cooperation for the functioning of the electro-energetic system

Cooperation for the purpose of system development

Cooperation for the implementation of the free market principles

The cooperation frame of the operators from the gas sector

Cooperation for operating the gas system *

Cooperation for implementing the principles of the free market

• Cooperation for developing the gas system * From regional cooperation to political regions in the field of energy

Cooperation of the energy market regulating authorities*

Regional initiatives of ACER and cooperation based on the principles of the Third Energy Package * Other cooperation platforms of the authorities regulating the energy market

• ERRA

CEER

EnR

4 Regional cooperation frameworks outside the third energy package * The Energy Community

• Initiatives in the field of energy infrastructure

The Western Balkan 6 Initiative or the Berlin Process (WB6)

EU4Energy Governance * CESEC

The Energy Charter Treaty

The 16+1 energy cooperation format

The Eastern Partnership

INOGATE

The Three Seas Initiative*

5 The regulation of regional energy cooperation in Romania * The National Defence Strategy

The Energy Strategy

The role of the Ministry of Energy as an actor in the regional cooperation process in the field of energy* * The role of the ANRE as an actor in the process of regional cooperation in the field of energy

The role of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as an actor in the process of regional cooperation in the field of energy

Conclusion*

6 Conclusions * General Conclusions

• Bibliography

Index