Common foreign and security policy and energy policy
Journal: CentAUR (University of Reading)
Year: 2018

The article is the first to explore the EU’s CFSP and Energy policy nexus. In doing so, it examines the externalisation and securitisation of the EU’s internal energy market. The main argument advanced is that EU energy security policy development has become an important variable in ensuring EU wider foreign policy objectives. However, rather than addressing the CFSP liaisons with EU energy policy solely from the perspective of foreign policy objectives, the chapter also explores the securitisat