Reordering the European energy hegemony: war, markets and ideology
Journal: Energy Research & Social Science
Year: 2025

Russia's 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine disrupted the traditional gas relationship between Europe and Russia and triggered a crisis for EU energy security and climate ambitions. Understanding how the European energy hegemony is being reordered is key for assessing the EU's future capacity to act as a cohesive geopolitical and climate leader. Using a qualitative, interpretive political economy approach grounded in Gramscian theory to analyse some of the most affected member state, we identif