Toward a Common European Union Energy Policy (PDF)

ARNO BEHRENS Head of Energy and Research Fellow at the Unit for Energy and Climate Change of the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS).

VICKI L. BIRCHDFIELD Associate Professor and Director of the European Union Center of Excellence in The Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at Georgia Tech. She received a DES from the Institut Universitaire de Hautes Etudes Internationales, University of Geneva, Switzerland and her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Georgia.

JOHN S. DUFFIELD Professor of Political Science at Georgia State University in Atlanta. He is the author of Over a Barrel: The Costs of U.S. Foreign Oil Dependence (2008), World Power Forsaken: Political Culture, International Institutions, and German Security Policy After Unification (1998), and Power Rules: The Evolution of NATO's Conventional Force Posture (1995) as well as numerous other publications on international politics, institutions, and security, and he is co-editor of Balance Sheet: The Iraq War and U.S. National Security (2009). His current research focuses on the politics of energy security in the United States and other industrialized countries.

CHRISTIAN EGENHOFER is Senior Fellow and Head of the Energy and Climate Change Programme at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS).

PER OVE EIKELAND is specialized in policy analysis and industrial strategic management, with emphasis in studies of environmental affairs, energy and innovation. He is Research Fellow withthe European Studies Program at the Fridtjof Nansens Institute and head of the institute's Energy Studies Group.

JONAS GRÄTZ Specializes in Russian and EU energy policies and strategies of energy companies.

JØRGEN HENNINGSEN Has almost 20 years of experience working in the European Commission, first as the Director of DG Environment and from 2001 as the Principal Advisor of DG Energy and Transport.

FRANCIS MCGOWAN Senior Lecturer in Politics, University of Sussex.

SOPHIE MÉRITET

"This book onEU energy policy speaking both to thescholarly community and the interested public is more than squaring the circle: Toward a Common European Union Energy Policy succeeds at framing this complex issue while staying empathetic with the involved actors. The authors clearly describe a (if not the) major policy challenge of the 21st century and remind us of the limited instruments we have at our disposal to address it." - Friedemann Mueller, Energy Analyst, Berlin

"This volume is a major achievement in advancing our understanding of a complex, controversial, and extremely important policy problem, and not just for the EU but for the world at large. The editors have assembled a very impressive team of researchers with scholarly and practical experience in the energy sector, and their contributions cover a full range of policy issues related to the pursuit of a common EU energy policy. The volume is especially impressive in terms of linking market factors with political dynamics, and in terms of synthesizing domestic concerns with international trends at the European level and beyond. It should stand as a major reference work on the topic for scholars, policymakers, policy advocates, energy firms, and others with an interest in this increasingly critical issue in world politics in the 21st century." - Michael E. Smith, Professor, Department of Politics & International Relations, University of Aberdeen