Energy geopolitics and geoeconomics in a transitioning world

Abstract

This panel explores the ways in which academic and political understandings of energy geopolitics and geoeconomics in Europe are changing as energy systems transition towards renewables and lower energy demand. It pays attention to how both structural issues (e.g. rapidly changing critical material markets, the emerging hydrogen economy, conflict) and policy measures (e.g. RePower EU, carbon border adjustment mechanism, critical raw materials strategies) are being shaped by changing geopolitical contexts. It also, however, considers how understandings of geopolitics are shifting to account for, and explicitly incorporate, new forms of energy and renewed commitment, in the EU, to sustainable transitions.

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