Article révisé par les pairs
| Résumé : | By analysing the context of the creation of the Single Energy Market, this article tries to understand the logic behind the coexistence of two energy safety concepts: (1) the financial gains of international trading (2) the protection against supply shortage risks using domestic self-sufficiency policies. Both concepts are used on an informative context conditioned by the two crises, which mainly impact the security perceptions of today: the oil crisis in the seventies and the Californian crisis in 2001. They are based on opposite factors: anti-market behaviour in the first case and excessive competition in the second case. The nature of liberalisation, of the relationship with non-EU producing countries and the perception of the dangers are inherent to such an informative context. |
