Energizing Europe: The Geopolitics of Energy Security and Energy Diversification in the European Union
Journal: School for International Training Digital Collections (School for International Training)
Year: 2014

Europe has always had an interesting relationship with Russia, be it social, political, or economic. From the days of the Cold War, when there was the ideological battle of communism versus capitalism, with the alliance of NATO representing a front against the Iron Curtain, certain remnants of this dynamic have still survived. Russia has not always had the best of relations with the European Union (EU), which has not made it easy for the EU to have fully functioning foreign relations with them.