Energy Security, Trade and the EU

Regional and International Perspectives

拉斐尔Leal-Arcas, Jean Monnet Chaired Professor of International Economic Law (awarded by the European Commission), Professor of European and International Economic Law and former Director of Research, Queen Mary University, London, UK and Visiting Professor, New York University Abu Dhabi and Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi, UAE, Costantino Grasso, Associate, Faculty Research Centre for Financial and Corporate Integrity and Senior Lecturer in Law, School of Law, Coventry University and Juan Alemany Ríos, Research Associate, Queen Mary University of London, UK

Energy security is a burning issue in a world where 1.4 billion people still have no access to electricity. This book is about finding solutions for energy security through the international trading system. Focusing mainly on the European Union as a case study, this holistic and comprehensive analysis of the existing legal and geopolitical instruments strives to identify the shortcomings of the international and EU energy trade governance systems, concluding with the notion of a European Energy Union and what the EU is politically prepared to accept as part of its unified energy security.