The EU De‐Risking of Energy Dependencies: Towards a New Clean Energy Geopolitical Order?
Journal: Politics and Governance
Year: 2024

The mounting geopolitical tensions and rivalries between the world’s major economies transform the goals and instruments of domestic and external policies. Industrial strategies of leading global powers call for technological decoupling, strategic autonomy, and the de-risking of dependencies in critical value chains. Economic interdependencies become a liability and de-globalisation tendencies come to the fore. The energy sector is not exempted from these trends, leading even to the weaponisatio