The Pipeline that kicked EU’s nest: The story of EU’s Energy Security and the Securitisation of the Nord Stream 2 project
Journal: Malmö University Publications (Malmö University)
Year: 2017

This thesis is about EU energy security in relation to Russia and its proposed Nord Stream 2 project. In this thesis the Copenhagen School theory on securitisation is applied with the help of a combination of content analysis and discourse analysis as methods, which will together with the theory become the framework of this study. While the focal point will fall on EU’s Parliament and how the project Nord Stream 2 is securitised within this EU structure, where the project itself will serve as an