Ukrayna Savaşı’nın Üçüncü Yılına Girerken AB’nin Pandemi Sonrası Enerji Politikası: Prangalanma mı? Sorumluluğu Paslama mı?
EU’s Post-Pandemic Energy Policy as the Ukrainian War Enters Its Third Year: Chainganging or Buck-Passing?

Summary/Abstract: While it was expected that the COVID-19 pandemic, which came right after the European Green Deal announced in 2019, would reduce the momentum of decarbonization in the EU’s energy policy, developments point the opposite. While the main policy priority of states in 2020 and 2021 was to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, this situation was quickly replaced by Russia's attack on Ukraine in February 2022. While the issue of whether the crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic is an opportunity or a threat to the energy transformation has not yet been resolved, Russia’s attack on Ukraine has changed the priorities of energy security and decarbonization in the EU’s energy policy. Therefore, in the third year of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, how was the EU’s post pandemic energy policy affected? The study aims to reveal the answer to this question in Christensen and Snyder’s (1990) theory of chainganging and buck-passing based on neorealism. The study concludes that the EU and its member countries shaped their energy policies during the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent Ukrainian War, on the basis of a chain-ganging strategy that includes interdependence rather than buckpassing strategy.

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