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01 February 2010
GPPi publishes policy paper on EU integration and the development of an EU external energy policy in Eurasia
GPPi has published a policy paper entitled "European Integration and the Development of a European External Energy Policy in Eurasia" authored by Albert Bressand, Aristotle Onassis Professor of Practice in International and Public Affairs and Executive Director of the Center for Energy, Marine Transportation and Public Policy (CEMTPP) at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University. The paper is a product of GPPi's Global Energy Governance research program which is supported by the European Commission.
First, the paper focuses on the deeper nature of the often poorly understood European integration process, concluding with some views as to the possible resolution of the “constructive ambiguity” that has served this process well in the past but is now reaching its limits. Next, the paper explores the limits of the common foreign policy that the Lisbon treaty calls for at a time when international governance can be summarized as G20+G2, namely an emerging multilateralism, without proper multilateral institutions. Finally, the paper discusses the search for a European external energy policy as an essential objective that brings together all dimensions of the “speaking with a single voice” nexus: the definition of what “Europe” is; of whether Europe must be content with some “common foreign policy” or whether it can design a single foreign policy that does not depend on consensus; and the role of energy as “the Litmus test” of EU integration or disintegration.
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