This book provides a comprehensive account of EU's renewable energy policy development as it traces the agenda-shaping, policy formulation and decision-making phases of the EU's secondary legislation on renewable energy that is the three successive directives of 2001 (RES-E), 2009 (RED), and 2018 (RED II). It also explores the EU's energy policymaking dynamics and assess integration outcomes of these three policymaking instances in the renewable energy field from a comparative perspective. Enriched with elite interviews with the Brussels policy community, and drawing on European integration and public policy literature, the proposed book will resonate with and offer relevant insights to students, scholars, stakeholders, and policymakers interested in EU energy policy, in particular, and European integration, in general.

Investigates under what conditions, and how, European integration succeeds, or fails, in the domain of energy Evaluates policy outputs (directives) across these two dimensions vertical and horizontal integration Features the analysis of the latest EU renewable energy directive of 2018

Autorentext

Mariam Dekanozishvili is Associate Professor of International Relations/European Politics at the Department of Politics, Coastal Carolina University, USA.

Inhalt

Chapter 1. Introduction: Introduction: EU Renewable Energy Policy in Context.- Chapter 2. Analytical Framework.- Chapter 3. EU Energy policymaking: Actors and Processes.- Chapter 4. The Emergence of EU Renewable Energy Policy: Unpacking Policymaking Dynamics of RES-E Directive.- Chapter 5. Consolidation of EU Renewable Energy Policy: Renewable Energy Directive (RED).- Chapter 6. Shaping EU Renewable Policy beyond 2020: RED II.- Chapter 7. Conclusion: Dynamics of EU Energy Policy Integration: Insights from EU's Renewable Energy Policy.