Turkey and the EU in an Energy Security Society: The Case of Natural Gas.

• Author: Sahan, Sule

By Dicle Korkmaz

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, 273 pages, $96.57 ISBN: 9783030457730

In Turkey and the EU in an Energy Security Society: The Case of Natural Gas, Dicle Korkmaz investigates Turkiye and the European Union's (EU) energy ties in the context of natural gas. Korkmaz's Ph.D. thesis serves as the foundation for the book. The book examines data gathered through interviews and EU and Turkish sources through narrative policy analysis. The objective of this book is to comprehend whether the positions of Turkish actors on energy security in the sector of natural gas impede or facilitate EU integration. On one hand, the book helps us better understand where the different actors in Turkiye want to put the country in the pan-European energy community when it comes to natural gas, and how much this position matches what the EU needs. On the other hand, it explores EU viewpoints on Turkiye's energy security posture to analyze the type of collaboration the EU seeks with Turkiye in the natural gas sector.

The book is organized in six chapters, including an introduction and a conclusion. In the first chapter, the author briefly analyzes European energy security and Turkiye's geopolitical position based on primary sources. In this section, the author provides an explanatory overview of the book's chapters and the theoretical framework she will employ. In chapter 2, the general theoretical and methodological frameworks of the book are discussed in greater detail. Buzan's structural explanation is presented first, and then the debate moves on to how this understanding applies to energy. This chapter provides definitions of some of the most vital concepts, such as natural gas energy security and energy security society and discusses the various forms of integration that are possible within the latter. Moreover, the chapter covers the fundamental institutions and seeks to establish the institutional structure of a society oriented toward energy security. Consequently, it describes the concept of sovereignty, energy diplomacy, the balance of power, the market, state capitalism, and demand and supply security. Tables and figures were used by the author to illustrate the connections between these concepts and the theoretical framework, making the theoretical framework more comprehensible.

The chapter 3 puts the energy security society's theoretical basis into perspective before going into great depth on the kind of integration the EU wants to achieve...