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Fracking is a novel but contested energy technology - so what makes some countries embrace it whilst others reject it? This book argues that the reason for policy divergence lies in procedures and processes, stakeholder inclusion and whether a strong narrative underpins governmental policies. Based on a large set of primary data gathered in Poland, Bulgaria and Romania, it explores shale gas policies in Central Eastern Europe (a region strongly dependent on Russian gas imports) to unveil the importance of policy regimes for creating a 'social license' for fracking. Its findings suggest that technology transfer does not happen in a vacuum but is subject to close mutual interaction with political, economic and social forces; and that national energy policy is not a matter of 'objective' policy imperatives, such as Russian import dependence, but a function of complex domestic dynamics pertaining to institutional procedures and processes, and winners and losers

This is the first handbook to provide a global policy perspective on energy, bringing together a diverse range of international energy issues in one volume. Maps the emerging field of global energy policy both for scholars and practitioners; the focus is on global issues, but it also explores the regional impact of international energy policiesAccounts for the multi-faceted nature of global energy policy challenges and broadens discussions of these beyond the prevalent debates about oil supplyAnalyzes global energy policy challenges across the dimensions of mark

This is the first handbook to provide a global policy perspective on energy, bringing together a diverse range of international energy issues in one volume. Maps the emerging field of global energy policy both for scholars and practitioners; the focus is on global issues, but it also explores the regional impact of international energy policiesAccounts for the multi-faceted nature of global energy policy challenges and broadens discussions of these beyond the prevalent debates about oil supplyAnalyzes global energy policy challenges across the dimensions of mark.

AbstractLike almost no other sector, energy reflects changing paradigms. Following a statist approach in which energy services were subject to public provision and administered by state companies, the free market paradigm took over in the 1980s and 1990s, making energy subject to private provision instead. More recently, the world has witnessed a new era of interventionism. Assessing these different phases, this article advances three arguments. First, paradigms matter in energy as they provide for crucial policy prescriptions. Second, agendas have become more complex, adding sustainability and energy poverty to traditional supply security. Third, paradigms are inextricably linked to rule‐setting power, putting the non‐OECD world in charge of defining the next paradigm. With regards to the latter, it is argued that it will likely be one characterised by fragmentation, with elements of state and market coexisting.

Despite an emerging literature on global energy governance, there so far is no extensive intellectual rationale for it. This article seeks to fill this gap by putting forward a public policy framework to analyze global energy. With that lens, energy security relates to problems of market failure at a transnational scale. These may occur due to imperfect competition; negative externalities; lack of information; or the presence of public goods. It is argued that major global energy risks such as oil price volatility, lack of transport infrastructure, and insufficient upstream investments can be convincingly conceptionalized as markets failing to provide for a crucial good-energy security. This article thus proposes market failure as an analytical justification of and as an intellectual foundation for further research in global energy governance, and sketches possible research agendas in that field. Adapted from the source document.

Argues that common perceptions regarding the petroleum-related return of Russia as a player on the international stage are mistaken. In this light, five myths that inform Western policy toward Russia are challenged. (1) Russia has an energy weapon. It is contended that Russian energy is not primarily about geopolitics. (2) Gazprom is a key to Russian foreign policy. Russia's recent "gas disputes" are seen as springing from profit motive rather than a desire to punish wayward neighboring governments. (3) High energy prices are driving Russian economic recovery. It is asserted that Russia's economic success has less to do with gas & oil than thought. (4) Russia is an energy superpower. A risk of running out of gas is viewed as attenuating any Russian ambitions of sustaining such a status. (5) A Sino-Russian oil & gas alliance is pending. Russia's economic interests trump geostrategic considerations underpinning any alliance. Demonstrated are the limits of predominant Western arguments regarding Russian energy. Implications for US & Western foreign policy are examined. D. Edelman