ABSTRACT
The final chapter summarizes the theoretical and empirical findings of the book. First, it revisits the initial typology of the energy security logics of war, risk and subsistence and extends it by the logic of emancipation identified in the analysis of the German, Polish and Ukrainian energy contexts. The energy security logic of emancipation is linked to the emerging phenomenon of energy democracy and driven by the imperative of self-reliance embraced by the bottom–up citizens’ energy initiatives, as it manifests in the rhetoric of liberation and local practices of energy production. The book conceptualizes this logic against the literature on emancipation and discusses its analytical importance for the security studies debates on security logics, the concept of emancipation, immanent critique and relation between emancipation versus democratic politics and desecuritization. Second, the chapter highlights its policy implications vis-à-vis other energy security logics. A cross-case comparison of the logics’ occurrence and dynamic in relation to pipeline politics, nuclear energy and the renewables sector illustrates how they can explain different national approaches to energy security in Europe most effectively.
