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European Energy Union? Caught between securitisation and ‘riskification’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 May 2017

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Andrew Judge*
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School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow
Tomas Maltby
Affiliation:
Department of Political Economy, King’s College London
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* Correspondence to: Dr Andrew Judge, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow, Adam Smith Building, Bute Gardens, Glasgow G12 8RT, United Kingdom. Author’s email: [email protected]
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Abstract

Fears about the security of supplies have been central to debates about the development of an integrated EU energy policy over the past decade, leading to claims that energy has been ‘securitised’. Previous analyses have found, however, that although shared security concerns are frequently used as justification for further integration, they can also serve as a rationale for Member States to resist sharing sovereignty. Transcending this apparent paradox would require not just agreement about whether energy supplies are security concerns, but also agreement about what kind of security concern they are. In this article, we examine whether such an agreement could emerge through a comparative analysis of constructions of gas security in the UK and Poland. Utilising a framework that draws from both the philosophical and sociological wings of Securitisation Studies, we demonstrate that although gas has been elevated on the security agendas of both states, the specific logic of insecurity – securitisation or riskification – underpinning these constructions differs substantially, and is conditioned by distinct modes of governance in each Member State. This, we contend, limits the potential for further integration of EU energy policies in the context of the European Commission’s proposals for an ‘Energy Union’.

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Energy SecuritySecuritisationEU EnergyEnergy Governance
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Research Article
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European Journal of International Security , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , July 2017 , pp. 179 - 202
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© British International Studies Association 2017 

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156 Directive 2009/73/EC.

157 Further research is required to examine this claim in other Member States, and in particular to examine how the dynamics of securitisation and riskification may play out in systems that do not align so clearly with the state-led/market-led distinction we have utilised in this article. This could also explore aspects of the process of constructing energy security that we have not been able to examine in this article, such as the role of practices in contributing to the process of securitisation/riskification.

158 Commission, European Energy Security Strategy, COM(2014)330, Brussels: European Commission (28 May 2014), available at: {http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX:52014DC0330&qid=1407855611566} accessed 11 April 2017.