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Engaged but constrained. Assessing EU actorness in the case of Nord Stream 2

Batzella, Francesca; (2022) Engaged but constrained. Assessing EU actorness in the case of Nord Stream 2. Journal of European Integration , 44 (6) pp. 821-835. 10.1080/07036337.2022.2043853. Green open access

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Abstract

Despite helpful categorizations about the EU’s role in external energy governance, more analysis is needed on the factors likely to enable or constrain the EU’s actorness. This article builds on the theoretical framework of actorness as a heuristic device to assess the extent to which its different components of opportunity, capability, and presence impact on the EU’s ability to be an actor in external energy governance. Looking at the case study of Nord Stream 2, the pipeline aiming to double the amount of energy transiting from Russia to Germany, the article argues that EU actorness depends on several constraining factors, such as the distribution of competence between the EU and its member states, the unwillingness of the latter to delegate competence to the former, and the existence of conflicting preferences across member states. The article applies a process-tracing method and builds on EU official documents, grey literature, and interview data.

Type: Article
Title: Engaged but constrained. Assessing EU actorness in the case of Nord Stream 2
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1080/07036337.2022.2043853
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1080/07036337.2022.2043853
Language: English
Additional information: Copyright © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Keywords: European Union; actorness; energy governance; capability
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > STEaPP
URI: https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10203734
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