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Energy Cooperation: The Leading Light of the Revised European Neighbourhood Policy? Drivers and Limits of the EU’s Functionalist Extension

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Tracing the evolution of energy cooperation in the context of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP), this chapter argues that the 2011 ENP review signifies a new step in line with the previous additive and dialectic pattern of change. On the one hand, after the attempts at decentred and lighter-weighted multilateral energy cooperation of the late 2000s, the revised ENP placed the emphasis back on instruments to promote EU-centred regulatory harmonisation (here characterised as energy governance). On the other hand, the EU has put in place new instruments of energy diplomacy directly aimed at increasing its security of supplies. The chapter examines this double development, contrasting different explanations for why (and to what effect) the EU and neighbouring countries have engaged in those initiatives.

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    Anna Herranz-Surrallés

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Herranz-Surrallés, A. (2017). Energy Cooperation: The Leading Light of the Revised European Neighbourhood Policy? Drivers and Limits of the EU’s Functionalist Extension. In: Bouris, D., Schumacher, T. (eds) The Revised European Neighbourhood Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-47182-6_12

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