This broad-ranging text provides an analysis and assessment of the European Union's energy policy. It examines the components of the internal energy market alongside energy policy and politics on the international stage, and in doing so outlines the increasing importance of this global issue.

Johannes Pollak is Professor of International Relations at Webster University (Vienna), Austria, and Head of the Political Science Department, Institute for Advanced Studies (Vienna), Austria.

Introduction
1. The EU's Energy Portfolio
2. Principles of Energy, End Uses and the Global Energy Balance
3. The Changing Nature of EU Energy Policy: Theory and Milestones
4. Who Does What? The Main Actors
5. Building a Common Internal Energy Market
6. Climate Change, Energy Efficiency, and the Quest to Expand the Use of Renewable Energy Sources
7. External Energy Politics
8. Policy Challenges on the Horizon
9. References.