This book explores the timely topic of energy security and international relations between the European Union and the Russian Federation. Pursuing a constructivist-discursive approach, it empirically analyses a corpus of energy discourses involving policymakers and representatives of the EU and the Russian Federation. Exploring various discursive meanings assigned to the material and technical character of EU-Russian energy relations, the monograph underscores how the identities and interests of both parties are strongly affected by the norms and values which frame the individual energy discourses.

Explores the timely topic of energy security Empirically analyses the political energy discourses between the EU and the Russian Federation Examines various discursive meanings assigned to the material and technical character of EU-Russian energy relations Offers a constructivist approach to analysing the discursive aspects of international relations

Autorentext

Luká Tichý, PhD, is Head of the Centre for Energy Policy and a researcher at the Institute of International Relations Prague, Czech Republic, where he focuses on issues concerning EU-Russian relations, energy security, discourse analysis, terrorist attacks on energy sectors, foreign and security policies of the EU and Russia, and international relations theory. He also lectures at the Metropolitan University Prague, Czech Republic.

Inhalt
The EU-Russia Energy Relations Between Non-discursive and Discursive Approaches: An Introduction.- Energy Relations Between the EU and Russia.- A Constructivist-Discursive Approach to Studying EU-Russia Energy Relations.- The EU Energy Discourses on the Russian Federation in 2004-2014.- The Russian Energy Discourses on the European Union in 2004-2014.- The Comparison of the Three Energy Discourses of the European Union and the Russian Federation in 20042014.- The EU-Russia Energy Relations in Captivity of Discourse.-