Putting Energy Insecurity into Historical Context: European Responses to the Energy Crises of the 1970s and 2000s

McGowan, Francis

doi:10.1080/14650045.2011.520857

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“…For many years, energy politics in the EU was a voluntary process that relied on Member States' good will (Behrens et al 2011). For example, during the 1970s, when the famous oil crisis occurred, Member States acted individually to implement energy policies (McGowan 2011). It appears that many political factors and perceptions affect Member States' behaviours, as they have been reluctant for several years to disclose any energy security competencies to the European Commission (Pointvogl 2009).…”

Section: European Union's Policies For Necp'smentioning

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The Green Deal, National Energy and Climate Plans in Europe: Member States’ Compliance and Strategies

Maris

Flouros

2021

Administrative Sciences

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This paper analyses the EU’s policies for energy and climate, using Börzel’s theoretical framework on Europeanisation, and examines Member States’ Green Deal responses, strategies, and compliance. As expressed in their final NECPs, although Member States’ responses vary, most of the critical components were partially addressed, while the others were largely addressed. We observe a considerable variation in Member States’ strategies. Member States classified as foot-dragging beforehand are fence-sitting now, while those previously categorised as fence-sitting are now either foot-dragging or pace-setting. The root cause of these classification changes for the Member States within the EU can be traced back to their internal environments in which the involved stakeholders each have a different response pace regarding environment, climate, and energy. We present and analyse our theoretical context, discuss the EU’s energy policies and the NECPs, examine Member States’ responses and compliance with this new framework, and propose several challenges.

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Section: European Union's Policies For Necp'smentioning

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The Green Deal, National Energy and Climate Plans in Europe: Member States’ Compliance and Strategies

Maris

Flouros

2021

Administrative Sciences

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“…Though energy can potentially take on a wide variety of social meanings, this quantifiable, kinetic understanding of energy remains dominant. Building on the biophysical quantification, its economic, monetized value, determined by international energy markets, informs most social science analyses as well as the practices and policies of securitizing energy [48]. Most social science literature, including that in International Relations (IR) has taken little note of the social dimensions of energy, and largely works with conventionally measured forms.…”

Section: Energy As a Social Relationmentioning

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Beyond the resource curse and pipeline conspiracies: Energy as a social relation in the Middle East

Hoffmann

2018

Energy Research & Social Science

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This article identifies problematic tendencies in current analyses of the Middle East's energy relations. There is a tendency to see all social relations as determined by resource extraction, use and transfer, contributing to the uniquely instable social relations of the Middle East. The combination of weak governance and geological over-determination continues to damage the region's fragile ecology. Under these conditions, social structures are incapable to react to new crises, such as the effects of global climate change. This article offers an alternative, more optimistic perspective on the Middle East's energy relations. Privileging the social over the material, calorific, geological or topographic dimensions of energy relations, it argues that social life developed in relation to its natural resources, matter and energy, but is not singularly determined by it. It proposes to historicise and, thereby, repoliticise the Middle East's social energy relations, including its nutritional and geopolitical dimensions. This reveals their spatio-temporally dynamic, rather than materially determined character. Energy is subsequently redefined into a political category, a field of social change rather than a limiting biophysical structure. The concept of Social Energy, thus, transforms nature from a constraining externality into an integral part of social analysis and transformation in the Middle East.

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“…Namely, the 1980s and 1990s energy market was rather stable and the period was not characterized by energy insufficiency that the show implicitly refers to (the villains being in constant need of energy sources). While the 1970s were characterized by various energy challenges, such as oil crises (McGowan), the 1980s and 1990s were a period of low energy prices, rather stable development, and energy sufficiency—in other words, of high‐energy security.…”

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Powering up the Technodrome: Energy Sustainability in the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Kujundžić¹,

Mišík²

2018

The J of Popular Culture

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Putting Energy Insecurity into Historical Context: European Responses to the Energy Crises of the 1970s and 2000s

Cited by 37 publications

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The Green Deal, National Energy and Climate Plans in Europe: Member States’ Compliance and Strategies

The Green Deal, National Energy and Climate Plans in Europe: Member States’ Compliance and Strategies

Beyond the resource curse and pipeline conspiracies: Energy as a social relation in the Middle East

Powering up the Technodrome: Energy Sustainability in the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

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