Between Russia as producer and Ukraine as a transit country: EU dilemma of interdependence and energy security

dc.contributor.authorPardo Sauvageot, Eric
dc.date.accessioned2024-11-19T11:39:55Z
dc.date.available2024-11-19T11:39:55Z
dc.date.issued2020-10
dc.date.updated2024-11-19T11:39:55Z
dc.description.abstractBetween 2014 and 2015, the EU started a new energy policy in order to address, among other issues, the problematic character of energy interdependence with Russia, and thus improve its energy security. The aim of this article is to determine how this policy considered interdependence with Russia in the light of diversification alternatives. Energy security is seen through short-term and long-term dimensions, which can be equated to the concepts of vulnerability and sensitivity interdependence. As the article shows, the alternative of LNG is limited by production and consumption patterns in both Europe and other world markets. It also shows that maintaining interdependence with Russia and reducing the role of transit countries such as Ukraine would yield benefits both in vulnerability and sensitivity interdependence. However, while the EU has strongly based its rhetoric on the promise of LNG, it has ignored alternatives that would maintain interdependence with Russia. Eventually, the EU's energy strategy has acknowledged the limitations of LNG, even though it has not changed its stance towards Russia. In that respect, it seems fair to conclude the EU has not rigorously analysed the transit dimension in its interdependence with Russia and the implications for its energy security.en
dc.identifier.citationPardo Sauvageot, E. (2020). Between Russia as producer and Ukraine as a transit country: EU dilemma of interdependence and energy security. Energy Policy, 145. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.ENPOL.2020.111699
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/J.ENPOL.2020.111699
dc.identifier.issn0301-4215
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14454/1950
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherElsevier Ltd
dc.subject.otherEnergy security
dc.subject.otherEuropean Union (EU)
dc.subject.otherInterdependence
dc.subject.otherLNG
dc.subject.otherRussia
dc.subject.otherUkraine
dc.titleBetween Russia as producer and Ukraine as a transit country: EU dilemma of interdependence and energy securityen
dc.typejournal article
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oaire.citation.titleEnergy Policy
oaire.citation.volume145
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