Searching for energy security...and finding renewables? Energy security perceptions and energy policy change in the case of Lithuania
Journal: Duo Research Archive (University of Oslo)
Year: 2020

Most modern societies face pressure to ensure energy security and to decarbonise their economies. The case of Lithuania provides an example of how an EU “energy island”, highly dependent on Russian energy resources, progressed from pro-nuclear to anti-nuclear and then to renewable energy advocate in the last decade and developed its energy policy accordingly. Based on the constructivist approach this thesis focuses on energy security perceptions through the lens of threats/vulnerabilities as pol