Analyzing the Logic and Effectiveness of External Governance for Gas Security in the European Union:The Case of the"Southern Gas Corridor"Countries
EU external governance is defined as a spillover phenomenon of EU institutional norms,aiming at reducing risks by exporting institutional norms and solving the existing and hidden external chaos with a system customary within the EU.This paper tries to apply the theoretical perspective of the EU's external governance,and selects Georgia,Turkey and Azerbaijan,the countries of the Southern Gas Corridor,which have rapidly increased in significance after the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict,as case study objects.By analysing the long-term cooperation practice between the EU and these countries,it is found that in the field of natural gas energy,market scale is the basis and template for the EU's market power to export its external system,and the EU has adopted different forms of cooperation at bilateral,regional and global levels with the countries of the"Southern Gas Corridor",and at the same time,exported its paradigm in an all-rounded way with a variety of policy instruments,such as bilateral,multilateral and auxiliary,and relied on external governance to seek its own natural gas energy security.At the same time,a variety of policy instruments,such as bilateral,multilateral and complementary,have been used in an all-round way to export the paradigm,relying on external governance to seek its own gas energy security.This is not only due to the scale and speed of implementation of EU incentives.This is due not only to realist considerations such as the scale and speed of implementation of EU incentives,the certainty of the rules,the credibility of the commitments,and the scale of the costs of adopting EU rules in third-party countries,but also,and more importantly,to the fact that the effectiveness of the EU's external governance of these countries varies significantly due to the large differences in religions,historical and cultural traditions,and in the models of economic and social governance upon which they are built.The limitations are obvious.However,the basic logic of the EU's external energy governance will remain unchanged in the future,and its limitations will be difficult to break through when confronted with multiple targets in a complex world.
EUEnergy SecurityExternal GovernanceInstitutional Norms Export"Southern Gas Corridor"
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