Energy Politics in a Turbulent Era

Edited by Dag Harald Claes, Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Oslo and Adjunct Professor, Molde University College, Norway

‘Turbulence isn’t just a headline – it’s the key to decoding today’s energy world. In this volume, leading experts show how disruptions – from pandemics to war – are reshaping energy security, markets, and geopolitics, from oil and gas to renewables and nuclear. A crisp, essential guide to the new energy order.’

• ContentsPreface xiiPART I GLOBAL ENERGY TURBULENCE1 Energy turbulence: between politics and markets 2Dag Harald Claes2 Empire and anti-empire: geopolitical turbulence, resentment,and energy crises 21Roland Dannreuther and Wojciech Ostrowski3 Oil and war: why decarbonization won’t produce peace 40Emily MeierdingPART II KEY ACTORS’ ENERGY POLICY INTURBULENT TIMES4 The Russian gas sector: from creating chaos to searching forsecurity 59James Henderson5 Energy politics in a turbulent era: the case of China 81Philip Andrews-Speed6 US energy policy in an era of polarisation and global shocks 99Cordelia Buchanan Ponczek7 OPEC and OPEC+ in the global energy turbulence 121Giuliano Garavini and Rafael RamírezPART III EUROPEAN ENERGY TURBULENCE8 European reactions to energy crises: between companies’flexibility and political constraints 143Francesca Batzella, Elisabetta Bini and Marta Musso9 Europe’s new interventionism: punctuated equilibrium andEU energy policy change 165Andreas C. Goldthau and Nick Sitter10 EU–Russia energy relations 185Marco SiddiPART IV ENERGY TURBULENCE IN NON-FOSSIL SECTORS11 Yet another hope for nuclear energy? 204Matěj Hrubý and Jan Osička12 Renewable energy and the turbulence of the global energysystem 225Oluf Langhelle, Thomas M. Sattich and Benjamin R. Silvester