The Geopolitics of Energy Supply in the ‘Wider Europe’

Bosse, Giselle; Schmidt-Felzmann, Anke

doi:10.1080/14650045.2011.520854

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“…The current economic condition of many countries and regions depends largely on the ability to meet their energy needs [67,68], and energy resilience has been one of the key elements of state security in all areas-political, economic and social [69,70]. Thus, the scientific interest in this subject is very large, including various problematic and methodological contexts.…”

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Socio-Economic Resilience of Poland’s Lignite Regions

Dmochowska-Dudek

Wójcik

2022

Energies

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The article is seeking to analyse the coal transition in three Polish lignite regions as part of the scientific discussion on a just transition, which is a big challenge, especially in the regions and countries dependent on their own coal deposits as the main source of energy. Polish lignite mines are now entering the phase-out of coal, which results from implementing the assumptions of the Green Deal and the Paris climate agreement. The article answers the following question: what is the socio-economic resilience of coal regions in the context of the projected closure of mines in the coming years? The empirical analyses are based on secondary statistical data. The analysis and comparison of basic statistical data, i.e., the level of employment and lignite extraction in three lignite regions in the period from the end of the Second World War to 2017, allowed the authors to determine the phases of the adaptive cycle in which the individual regions are. In the second part of the study, the indicator evaluation method was used in order to calculate the Socio-Economic Resilience Index for individual areas (poviats) included in the coal regions, which made it possible to assess the current resilience and its intra-regional differentiation. The obtained results, which indicate that the regions under analysis are in different phases of the adaptive cycle and reveal their territorial heterogeneity, allow us to assume that the possibilities of a just energy transition of regions depend on the diversity of local conditions and resources, emphasising at the same time the territorial dimension of the issue of the energy transition.

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Socio-Economic Resilience of Poland’s Lignite Regions

Dmochowska-Dudek

Wójcik

2022

Energies

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“…Gazprom currently has a 75 percent share of Russian natural gas production, a near monopoly over distribution to end user networks through its (Soviet-inherited) unified gas supply system (UGSS), and a monopoly on exports from and through Russia. (Bosse and Schmidt-Felzmann, 2011). 41 According to Eurasia Daily Monitor (August 9, 2012), Putin publically admitted that the invasion of Georgia had long been planned, and Georgia was intentionally provoked to provide a pretext.…”

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Eurasian Natural Gas: Significance and Recent Developments

Ericson

2012

Eurasian Geography and Economics

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A noted American specialist on the economies of Russia and major republics of the former Soviet Union explores and discusses the natural gas resources of Central Eurasia and the political and economic issues raised by their general inaccessibility. Central to these issues are the international pipelines required to bring this increasingly important energy source to meet growing world demand, and their intimate connection to the security of all the nations involved. The author explains why they are complicated by the growing, yet still largely potential, competition from a world LNG market driven by new technologies, and hence natural gas sources, outside of Central Eurasia. Each of the major actors in this arena-from the producer states and their national energy companies to the high-income consuming states with an increasing demand for natural gas-are pursuing frequently conflicting strategies to ensure their energy supplies and income security.

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“…Electricity's centrality to modern forms of power is evident from its role in shaping spaces of mass consumption and the urban form (Nye 1999); transboundary relations and geopolitics (Bosse et al, 2011; Austvik and Rzayeva, 2017); and as vehicles for corporate governance that centralise capital accumulation (Harrison 2013b). Its particular material qualities and the historical development of the technology has had a significant bearing on the above forms of power (Hirsh 2003).…”

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Energopower, statecraft and political legitimacy

Chandrashekeran

2022

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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This paper draws on the notion of energopower ( Boyer 2014 ) to show the foundational role of electricity in the (re)production of political power in Australia. I show how conflicts surrounding electricity have reconstituted state-market-society relations and rescaled governance. I study a series of notable national-scale interventions and argue that, through the contingent and chaotic play of events in the political sphere, market-oriented governance regimes for electricity have been weakened, and the issue of electricity decarbonisation has become ‘weaponised’ for electoral benefit. I explain how national political leadership in Australia has stepped in from a constitutionally-weak position to govern electricity under pressure for environmentally-driven adaptation. I show four statecraft techniques that reconstitute electricity in new ways: discursively linking electricity governance to socio-environmental futures; national interest framings that are weaponized for electoral gain; tactical governance through parliamentary compromise and appeasement; and jettisoning market logics in favour of state intervention. This study recognises the limits of centralized state-making under a Federalist system but shows the potential for statecraft to reshape scalar-territorial relations and strengthen the role of the central state vis-à-vis the market. Vital resources like electricity are not just struggled over but, under the right conditions, can come to shape political power. There is neither infinite potential for state rescaling through the performance of legitimacy, nor do rigid scalar hierarchies simply block reconfigurations of state power. To understand the potential for resource struggles to re-scale state power attention must be paid to the techniques of statecraft that support and undermine legitimacy.

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The Geopolitics of Energy Supply in the ‘Wider Europe’

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Socio-Economic Resilience of Poland’s Lignite Regions

Socio-Economic Resilience of Poland’s Lignite Regions

Eurasian Natural Gas: Significance and Recent Developments

Energopower, statecraft and political legitimacy

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