Ready to React : Contextualizing the Visegrad Group’s Energy Cooperation

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=932389" target="_blank" >https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=932389</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/PC2021-1-59" target="_blank" >10.5817/PC2021-1-59</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Ready to React : Contextualizing the Visegrad Group’s Energy Cooperation

Original language description

The Visegrad Group ranks among the most visible examples of regional cooperation in Europe. Within the Group’s agenda, cooperation on energy policy appears to be especially important and it is also a field in which the Platform is considered to perform especially well. This article provides an account of what ‘energy cooperation’ is according to the Platform itself. Specifically, it seeks to find out which energy policy issues are reflected by the Platform, how their reflection has evolved over time, and how they are framed (made sense of). To find out, all the official documents and communications issued by the V4 between 2000 and 2018, totalling approximately 660,000 words of text, were thoroughly examined using three separate analytical approaches. The results show that energy indeed features prominently in the V4 agenda with a focus on energy security – tacitly understood as security of (natural gas) supply – and pursuing common interests within the EU. The results also indicate that the energy cooperation is largely reactive, with the V4 much more likely to find common positions and agree on joint actions when facing external pressures. Especially since 2015, the cooperation has been chiefly defined by common resistance to the ambitious climate policies pursued by the EU. The article concludes by suggesting that Visegrad energy cooperation is likely overrated and that there is little evidence in the documents of the Platform that this agenda represents an ‘especially successful’ field of cooperation.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50601 - Political science

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA18-05612S" target="_blank" >GA18-05612S: United in Differences: Visegrad Contribution To EU Differentiated Integration</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Politologický časopis

ISSN

1211-3247

e-ISSN

1805-9503

Volume of the periodical

28

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

26

Pages from-to

59-84

UT code for WoS article

000625349000004

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85147015610