@article{Tagliapietra:138631,
      recid = {138631},
      author = {Tagliapietra, Simone},
      title = {The Rise of Turkey and the New Mediterranean Challenges  and Opportunities for Energy Cooperation in a Region in  Transition},
      address = {2012-09},
      number = {830-2016-55319},
      series = {ERM},
      pages = {37},
      year = {2012},
      abstract = {This paper, presenting a wide range of issues related to  the role of Turkey in the Mediterranean energy context,  aims to provide a comprehensive framework of understanding  of the growing strategic relevance of Turkey for both the  European Union and the overall Euro-Mediterranean region.  In particular, the paper focuses on the EU-Turkey energy  relations and outlines the crucial role of natural gas in  enhancing energy cooperation between the two players. In  2010 about 80% of EU gas imports derived from only three  suppliers: Russian Federation, Norway and Algeria. This  heavy dependence on such a few suppliers stimulated the  European Commission to make the concept of diversification  a cornerstone of its energy policy and to launch the  concept of the Southern Gas Corridor, an initiative aimed  to develop a natural gas transit corridor from Caspian and  Middle Eastern gas-rich regions to Europe, in order to ease  the dependency on the natural gas imported from the Russian  Federation. An initiative that could shift the "centre of  gravity" of the regional gas transit from the north to the  south of the Black Sea, allowing Turkey to become a key  transit country in the future European gas market; a  pivotal element in the European gas security of supply  architecture. Furthermore, the paper also considers the  enormous renewable energy potential of Southern and Eastern  Mediterranean Countries, to which Turkey could greatly  contribute in terms of technology transfer and  manufacturing know-how. Turkey’s involvement in the Union  for the Mediterranean offers a great opportunity for energy  cooperation both between the EU and Turkey and within the  overall Euro-Mediterranean region. Such large-scale  renewable energy projects could greatly contribute to the  economic development of the overall Mediterranean region,  and also to its social and political stability. Considering  the lack of a wide and comprehensive EU-Turkey energy  cooperation scheme, the paper proposes a series of policy  priorities pointed to enhance this bilateral relationship  and also the wider Euro-Mediterranean integration process.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/138631},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.138631},
}