This book explores the role which policy networks and particularly advocacy coalitions play in EU energy policy, and the factors that account for their policy success. It captures the often neglected interaction between public and private actors in EU energy security policy and between opposing advocacy coalitions. The volume's case studies examine coalitions working on two issues central to EU energy policy debates over the last decade: fracking for shale gas and developing the Southern Gas Corridor, a pipeline system linking Europe with the gas region of the Caspian Sea. Although the coalitions studied are focused on impacting EU energy policy, they stretch beyond the EU borders. The book draws on original, rich, and intriguing data, around 90 interviews with energy stakeholders and over six months of fieldwork and participant observation, analysed through an innovative combination of frame analysis and social network analysis.

Proposes a policy network approach for investigating the expanding EU energy policy field Draws on around 90 interviews with network members and energy stakeholders Brings to the forefront the voices of contemporary energy policy actors capturing their formal and informal policymaking and networking practices

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Alexandra-Maria Bocse is a researcher at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. She received a PhD in Politics and International Studies from the University of Cambridge and was a Fulbright-Schuman Fellow at Harvard University. Her research, analysis and teaching interests are related to European affairs, environmental governance and international energy politics and policy.

Inhalt

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. The European Union and Energy Policy: Recent Developments and institutional Actors.- Chapter 3. Fracking in the European Union: Coalitions in Collision.- Chapter 4. Fracking in the European Union: The Power of Resources, Words, and Structure.- Chapter 5. The Southern Gas Corridor: Coalitions in Collision.- Chapter 6. The Southern Gas Corridor: The Power of Resources, Words, and Structure.- Chapter 7. Further Discussion and Conclusions.