This book explores the timely topic of energy security and international relations between the European Union and the Russian Federation. Pursuing a constructivist-discursive approach, it empirically analyses a corpus of energy discourses involving policymakers and representatives of the EU and the Russian Federation. Exploring various discursive meanings assigned to the material and technical character of EU-Russian energy relations, the monograph underscores how the identities and interests of both parties are strongly affected by the norms and values which frame the individual energy discourses.
This book explores the timely topic of energy security and international relations between the European Union and the Russian Federation. Pursuing a constructivist-discursive approach, it empirically analyses a corpus of energy discourses involving policymakers and representatives of the EU and the Russian Federation. Exploring various discursive meanings assigned to the material and technical character of EU-Russian energy relations, the monograph underscores how the identities and interests of both parties are strongly affected by the norms and values which frame the individual energy discourses.
Explores the timely topic of energy security Empirically analyses the political energy discourses between the EU and the Russian Federation Examines various discursive meanings assigned to the material and technical character of EU-Russian energy relations Offers a constructivist approach to analysing the discursive aspects of international relations
Lukáš Tichý
European Union Russian Federation Energy Discourse Constructivism Identity Norms Integration discourse Liberalisation discourse Diversification discourse russian and post-soviet politics energy security