Abstract:

This study reviews the European Union’s (EU) energy security by considering the direct effects of the 2022 Ukraine crisis on the EU energy markets as a “case study”. In the first part of the study, it is emphasized that international security studies have an interdisciplinary nature, including non-military threats, and the security sectors that the Copenhagen School has revealed depending on the diversity of threats are explained according to the methodology of the study. Additionally, the historical development of the concept of “energy security” and its current definition are analyzed in this part of the study. In the second part, several political crises directly associated with Russia which affected the EU’s energy security in the post-Cold War period are introduced, and Russia’s role in EU energy security is presented with the help of economic data demonstrating the EU’s energy dependence on Russia. In the third part, the energy security policies of the EU in the face of the 2022 Ukraine crisis and the developments in the EU energy market in parallel with these policies are discussed. In this part, it is also discussed how the EU can combine its climate, energy, and democracy objectives within the framework of a coherent energy security policy in the face of the threats arising from the 2022 Ukraine crisis.

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