CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2019
| Author | Tarnai, Zoltán |
|---|---|
| Title | Building a Common European Energy Policy: Drivers of Negative and Positive Energy Policy Integration in the European Union |
| Summary | The European energy policy integration process has been widely discussed in the academic literature in the last two decades, signaling the rising significance of energy in the integration process of the European Union. While numerous researches are concerned with the potential drivers of integration, they do not account for the qualitative aspect of the outcome, thus fail to establish a connection between the drivers and their effects on the policy outcome. Therefore, the aim of this thesis is to research the drivers behind energy policy integration in the EU and to find out why cooperation in the area of energy policy fluctuated during the European integration process. Looking at selected crucial periods of the EU’s energy policy integration process, the thesis argues that energy policy integration tends to be driven by major member states, although the increasing role of the supranational body cannot be neglected. Meanwhile, energy policy coordination at the EU-level fluctuated over time as positive and negative energy policy integration also fluctuated, reflecting the changing nature and perceptions of the actors and the aims of the integration. |
| Supervisor | Izsak, Daniel |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2019/tarnai_zoltan.pdf |
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