| ID | 175456 |
| Title Proper | NATO, energy security and institutional change |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Bocse, Alexandra-Maria |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | In recent years, NATO expressed increasing interest in addressing the broader range of security challenges confronting its Allies. Energy security was included in 2010 in the NATO Strategic Concept and in the following years NATO developed its mandate in energy security. This research resorts to process tracing to capture the interaction between factors that led to NATO developing a mandate in energy security. NATO Member States, particularly Central and Eastern European countries, played an important role in NATO working on energy security. The NATO bureaucracy also supported the organisation in developing a mandate in this field. The study finds rational choice institutionalism particularly useful in explaining the expansion of the NATO mandate in energy security and contributes in this way to the ongoing debate on which theoretical approach best explains the contemporary evolution of NATO. The research is based on original data collected through fieldwork and interviews conducted at the NATO headquarters with high NATO officials working on energy security (including NATO Deputy Secretary Generals and NATO heads of sections), as well as with high officials from NATO Member States. |
| `In' analytical Note | European Security Vol. 29, No.4; Dec 2020: p.436-455 |
| Journal Source | European Security Vol: 29 No 4 |
| Key Words | NATO ; Institutionalism ; Energy Security ; Institutional Change ; Emerging Security Challenges |