EU-Russia Energy Relations : A Discursive Approach

This book explores the timely topic of energy security and international relations between the European Union and the Russian Federation. Pursuing a constructivist-discursive approach, it empirically analyses a corpus of energy discourses involving policymakers and representatives of the EU and the Russian Federation. Exploring various discursive meanings assigned to the material and technical character of EU-Russian energy relations, the monograph underscores how the identities and interests of both parties are strongly affected by the norms and values which frame the individual energy discourses. Front Matter ....Pages i-xiv The EU-Russia Energy Relations Between Nondiscursive and Discursive Approaches: An Introduction (Lukáš Tichý)....Pages 1-13 Energy Relations Between the EU and Russia (Lukáš Tichý)....Pages 15-46 A Constructivist–Discursive Approach to Studying EU-Russia Energy Relations (Lukáš Tichý)....Pages 47-96 The EU Energy Discourses on the Russian Federation in 2004–2014 (Lukáš Tichý)....Pages 97-135 The Russian Energy Discourses on the European Union in 2004–2014 (Lukáš Tichý)....Pages 137-178 The Comparison of the Three Energy Discourses of the European Union and the Russian Federation in 2004–2014 (Lukáš Tichý)....Pages 179-203 The EU-Russia Energy Relations in Captivity of Discourse (Lukáš Tichý)....Pages 205-218