Shale gas and renewables: divergence or win-win for transatlantic energy cooperation?

Haug, Marianne

doi:10.1080/14794012.2012.734671

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“…Because the renewable energy system is more symmetrical than the traditional energy one, energy transition will change the power structure among countries and promote the energy relationship from asymmetric dependence to mutual and horizontal dependence. At the national and community levels, energy transition is expected to stimulate energy independence, ensure national energy security, decentralise power, and improve democratic governance (Haug, 2012;Joyeeta et al, 2018). The broad-spectrum characteristics of new energy reduce the centralised control of political and economic elites and help to realise the power balance between "elites" and "ordinary people" (Powell et al, 2015).…”

Section: Energy Transition Reshapes Relations Among Countriesmentioning

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Geopolitics of the energy transition

2023

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Geopolitics of energy transition has increasingly become the frontier and hot research area of world energy geography and global political science. Different historical periods are characterised by obvious differences in energy connotations, attributes, and geopolitical characteristics. In the new energy era, energy geopolitics becomes more diversified, complex, and comprehensive. In this paper, we compare the geopolitical characteristics of energy in the fossil fuel and renewable energy periods, and provide an overview of current study trends in new energy geopolitics. Recent research shows that the global energy transition will intensify the reconstruction of geopolitical patterns, change the relationship between geopolitical security and conflict dominated by traditional energy security, alter the role of different countries in global energy geopolitical games, reshape national energy relationships formed in the traditional oil and gas era. In addition, geopolitics will be affected by new energy technologies, availability of key rare materials, and energy cybersecurity measures. Despite considerable attention to this research topic, the likely geopolitical impact of energy transition remains uncertain, and there is still room for the development and improvement of the theoretical framework, technical methods, and research perspective. Looking forward to the future, the research into geopolitics of energy transition urgently needs to strengthen its theoretical basis and rely on the scientific and quantitative methods. The practical conclusions of the research into geopolitics of energy transition should strengthen major national energy security decisions, explore the geographical effect of energy transition, and determine the impact of energy transition on energy security. Research into geopolitics of energy transition should be carried out taking into account international academic frontiers such as climate change, "carbon peak" and "carbon neutral" goals, and global energy governance, to enrich the research perspective of world energy geography.

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Section: Energy Transition Reshapes Relations Among Countriesmentioning

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Geopolitics of the energy transition

2023

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“…Here, key issues covered range from shale gas as a means for projecting US power [9,31,56,72,95,112], the EU-Russia nexus and European energy security concerns [27,65,70,82,146] and broader geostrategic implications [28,48,77,78,127,146]. Broadly situated in the realm of International Relations, this strand of the literature tends to establish a firm link between foreign policy objectives and energy commodities as a geo-economic means thereof.…”

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Conceptualizing the above ground factors in shale gas: Toward a research agenda on regulatory governance

Goldthau¹

2016

Energy Research & Social Science

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“…This is particularly the case in the United States, the so‐called “motherland” of fracking, which has been the focal point of scholarly inquiry. Thus far, the rapidly expanding literature has paid most of its attention to public attitudes and state‐level politics (Boudet et al, ; Brasier et al, ; Brown, Borick, Rabe, & Ivacko, ; Lachapelle, Montpetit, & Gauvin, ; Rabe, ; Rabe & Borick, ) as well as the broader geopolitical implications of the U.S. shale revolution (Blackwill & O'Sullivan, ; Dunn & McClelland, ; Haug, ; Malik, ). The literature on Europe, by contrast, is far less developed.…”

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The Power of Policy Regimes: Explaining Shale Gas Policy Divergence in Bulgaria and Poland

Goldthau

LaBelle

2016

Review of Policy Research

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Shale gas policies vary significantly across Europe, notably in Russia-dependent Central Eastern Europe. Most strikingly, Bulgaria banned shale gas, whereas Poland remains firmly committed to fostering it despite its drawbacks. This article uses a policy regime approach to explain the shale gas puzzle. Drawing on a large set of interviews, the piece investigates regime strength as the causal factor that explains the adoption of specific shale gas laws (Poland) or a fracking ban (Bulgaria). It finds that the Polish shale gas policy regime was strong, based on a powerful political narrative and characterized by an institutional process ensuring the buy-in of actors from relevant policy levels and subsystems. In Bulgaria the policy regime was weak, failed to co-opt key stakeholders, and was institutionally ill-designed. The findings show how different degrees of policy regime strength translate into diverging policy trajectories in two countries that otherwise operate in similar environments.

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Shale gas and renewables: divergence or win-win for transatlantic energy cooperation?

Cited by 9 publications

References 7 publications

Geopolitics of the energy transition

Geopolitics of the energy transition

Conceptualizing the above ground factors in shale gas: Toward a research agenda on regulatory governance

The Power of Policy Regimes: Explaining Shale Gas Policy Divergence in Bulgaria and Poland

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