ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the conceptualization of the emerging powers and the EU Energy Governance. External energy governance has increasingly become a research topic within the international relations, yet the current state reveals a concentration on security issues, for which a classical understanding of security is still common. The focus on Emerging Powers was chosen due both to their growing energy demand and to their rise as the major powers and the bright diplomats within global governance, especially regarding foreign policy, global environmental governance, and external trade relations. The very nature of the European multi-level system comprising supra-national institutions, Member States, sub-national, and non-state actors implies specific forms of the governance. The EU and Emerging Powers can also be regarded as the rational cooperative actors that follow a cost-benefit calculus in energy cooperation and are able to translate multiple alternatives for action into concrete preference orders.
