The Russian-European Energy Security Interactive Struggle in the Perspective of the Elasticity of Status Perception
Status seeking reflects to a certain extent the changes in the perceptions of countries'security issues,and the sensitivity of the game opponents to the status changes depends on the influence of the power contrast between the two sides in acquiring the status,the social context,and the historical narratives.The energy security struggle between the EU and Russia since the Cold War can be divided into three different stages:the first stage is the stage of the EU's innovative strategy versus Russia's imitative strategy from 1994 to 2004,in which the two sides eliminated their differences in the early stage and cooperated to reach an energy cooperation agreement under the logic of the positive-sum game,and the Russian side changed its strategy in the later stage because its status was not recognized as it wished;the second stage is the stage of the EU's innovative strategy versus Russia's imitative strategy from 2004 to 2010,in which the two sides changed their strategies.The second stage is the stage of the EU's innovative strategy versus Russia's competitive strategy from 2004 to 2010,in which Russia's competitive strategy is used to further strengthen its position in the core of the energy supply chain and to defuse the EU's expansion of its normative power,and European countries fail to respond to Russia's strategy in a timely manner under the amplified effect of relative perceptual obtuseness,and the cooperation was formed under the conditions of the EU's compromises;and the third stage is the stage of the EU's competitive strategy versus Russia's competitive strategy from 2010 to 2019.The third stage is the stage of the EU's competitive strategy versus Russia's competitive strategy from 2010 to 2019,when the EU no longer has an asymmetric advantage at the unit level in terms of the material power to acquire a position,and the failure of the competitive position assertion creates a loser's identity that leads to a simultaneous decrease in the position of the Russians and the Europeans in the field of the game,and Russia and the Europeans stop their losses in time in the negative-sum game of cooperation.The results of the study show that the pursuit of international status by the main actors in the international community is a basic driving force influencing the interaction strategy of the energy game,and that Russia and Europe show alternating patterns of cooperation or conflict in the successive security game interaction situations and under different exogenous conditions.
Energy Security StruggleStatus SignalingPerceptual ElasticityIdentity PoliticsRussiaEU
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