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Therefore, the distinctive features of Dr. Young's book include: • A thorough analysis of current EU strategies towards energy security, assessing the EU as an international actor; • A key focus on the governance structures of producer states including the Middle East, Russia, Central Asia and Caspian, and Sub-Saharan Africa; • A major addition to debates surrounding markets and geopolitics, informing both international relations and international political economy.
In doing so, the book has brought up six key debates - to be pursued and discussed later in the book chapters -as following: • Whether the energy security imperative in practice had a notable impact on European energy policy, or in contrast drove the most notable changes in the Jnternal aspects of energy policy; • Whether the pursuit of energy security strengthened or weakened cooperation between European governments; • Whether competition for energy security displaced quintessentially European 'soft power' approaches in favor of a drift back towards nineteenth-century style power politics; • Whether the EU exercised effective influence over international energy matters or conversely was increasingly sidelined by what some posited as a new energy-driven 'great game' involving the United States, Russia and China as principal players; • Whether the conventional wisdom that energy security encourages consumer governments to be less critical of autocratic regimes indeed captured the way in which European foreign policy changed; and • Whether the priority attached to energy security accorded European oil multinational greater influence over EU foreign policies.