Eine Energieaußenpolitik für die Europäische Union

External energy policy features increasingly on the political agenda of the European Union and its prominence will continue to accelerate for the foreseeable future. We do not have the genuine European policy that we expected from the official discourse calling for a “common voice” on external energy policy; yet the political need for this is evident in light of several energy crises. The author explores the reasons for this and whether the current external energy policy could actually function. She offers her recommendations, based on solid analysis, to political actors with the aim of making successful policy a reality. The author’s extensive primary source research and numerous interviews with key decision makers provide deep insights into the black box of Brussels decision making processes to make European external energy policy more transparent. The book brings a theoretical approach to this new area of research in political science, successfully combining theory with political practice.