Andrea Prontera
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1176259 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Andrea Prontera |
| NOMBRES | Andrea |
| APELLIDO | Prontera |
| FIRMA | PRONTERA A |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Macerata |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3656-6295 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 78 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2010 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Between Repurposing and Innovation
Offshore energy infrastructures are becoming increasingly central to the low-carbon transition while raising pressing questions of resilience and security. Assets such as offshore wind installations, subsea electricity cables, and pipelines are exposed to a growing range of environmental, technological, and geopolitical risks, as well as cyber and physical threats. This article develops an analytical framework for the study of critical offshore e…
Relaunching the Italian energy transition
Incumbents, such as major companies that dominate conventional electricity production, have traditionally been viewed as opponents of energy transition. However, recent scholarship suggests that a more nuanced understanding of their evolving role in energy systems transformation is needed. Drawing on this strand of research, as well as policy literature on business politics, organised interests and lobbying, the paper develops an original analyti…
A green but also just transition? Variations in social and industrial policy responses to industrial decarbonisation in EU member states
The EU aims for net carbon neutrality by 2050. Since industry contributes substantially to carbon emissions, reforms to decarbonise industry are necessary to achieve this goal. However, these reforms may entail labour market costs in the form of unemployment, which may necessitate social policies to mitigate them. Our article provides a novel contribution to the existing literature by developing a framework to classify how these policy responses …
Italy’s foreign energy policy and the Mattei Plan
The Mattei Plan represents Italy’s latest attempt to frame its engagement in Africa, integrating economic cooperation with broader foreign policy goals such as development and energy security. The Plan testifies to the Meloni government’s balancing act between a moderate nationalism premised on status enhancing policies, staunch Atlanticism, and a degree of post-ideological Euro-realism. Boosting the country’s projection in Africa was identified …
The necessary reorientation of Italian energy policy
The 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine triggered profound changes in European energy policy. This was particularly the case for a country like Italy, highly dependent on Russian gas supplies and traditionally an energy partner of Moscow. In this article, we trace the major policy measures enacted by the Draghi government to address security-of-supply risks and foster the development of renewable energy. Moreover, we highlight a number of continuiti…
The NRRP and the Italian energy transition. Interest groups in implementation, between structural power, insiderness and new coalitions
Italian energy policy has traditionally been significantly influenced by large state-owned companies, commonly referred to as national champions, as well as by fossil fuel interests. The impact of the energy transition on this situation has been limited, as the adoption of renewables in Italy has not been accompanied by the emergence of a robust green coalition. The National Recovery and Resilience Plan provided an opportunity to address this sit…
Greening energy governance through agencification in the Global South
This article offers the first comprehensive analysis of the emergent modes for greening electricity governance through agencification in the Global South by examining the drivers and role of renewable energy agencies (REAs) in various countries in the Middle East and North Africa region. Furthermore, the article illustrates the impact of this form of agencification on the deployment of renewables and the “democratization” of energy governance. We…
Winter is coming
By focussing on the Italian case and on transformations in state-market relations in the natural gas sector, this article examines the post-war European politics of energy security. It argues that rather than fostering EU-level path-breaking measures, the war has brought back the 'partner state' in the EU energy realm. This model, which supported the structuration of East-West energy interdependence during the Cold War, envisages direct modes of …
Catalytic Power Europe
The global influence of the European Union (EU) has been debated in overlapping strands of literature as ‘normative’, ‘regulatory’ and ‘market power’. They identify the diffusion of its rules and standards as a vehicle of European power. We argue that European power extends beyond its regulatory capacities and includes new ‘catalytic’ capacities in the realm of financing and network building. We analyse blended finance as an instrument of ‘cataly…
The Italian energy transition in a multilevel system
The article analyses drivers as well as coordination mechanisms and instruments for the energy transition in Italy from a multilevel governance perspective. It addresses the structural constraints that influenced the decision-making processes and organisation of the Italian energy sector and the socio-technical challenges opened up by enhancing renewables. The current energy system is making the move from a centralised, path-dependent institution…
The EU as catalytic state? Rethinking European climate and energy governance
The regulatory state has provided a useful framework for conceptualizing the nature of the EU and its role in policy making. Although it is widely accepted that the conditions of European integration have dramatically changed since the 1990s, when this approach was formulated, few scholars have sought to theorize the EU ‘beyond’ the regulatory state. To fill this gap, this article puts forward the concept of the catalytic state, tracing its emerg…
Governing by Enabling in Multilevel Systems
This article investigates whether, how and under what conditions European Union (EU) capacity‐building programmes actually contribute to improving the action capacity of target actors in view of common policy objectives. The empirical analysis focuses on the European Local Energy Assistance (ELENA) technical facility that aims to enhance local authorities' project development and management capacities in the field of renewables and energy efficie…
The dismantling of renewable energy policy in Italy
The expansion of renewables is still dependent on appropriate policy support. Nonetheless, in the wake of the economic crisis, even pioneer European countries have begun to dismantle the set of measures implemented in the past decades. Policy dismantling in the area of renewable energy is a recent phenomenon that has attracted little attention in comparison to the study of the diffusion of support schemes. By focusing on the dismantling of renewa…
Italy, Russia and the Great Reconfiguration in East–West Energy Relations
Italy is the second largest market for Russian gas in the EU, and Italy–Russia energy relations stretch back to the Cold War period. By developing an original framework for the study of the politics of producer–consumer cooperation based on an international political economy approach and the analytical concept of forms of state, this article examines the origins, evolution and current features of Italy–Russia dyadic energy relations. This analysi…
Beyond the regulatory state
Beyond the EU Regulatory State
The new politics of energy security and the rise of the catalytic state in southern Europe
European energy security has recently emerged as an important topic of scholarly attention. Many studies have scrutinised the political and institutional innovations triggered by the establishment of the European Union internal energy market and external energy policy. However, the literature indicates a particularly striking gap between growing research and concept development, and only recently have efforts been made to analyse this current dyn…
Giganti petroliferi e grandi consumatori. Gli Stati Uniti, la Gran Bretagna e la rivoluzione petrolifera (1968–1974)
In recent years, Italian historiography has once again paid special attention to the crucial period between the late 1960s and early 1970s, a period in which the structure of the global oil market
Energy Security in the Eastern Mediterranean
The Palgrave handbook of the international political economy of energy
After the first wave of energy research that coincided with the 1970s oil shocks, scholarly interest in energy affairs declined, only to re-emerge at the beginning of the twenty-first century. This second wave of scholarship has considerably widened and deepened the scope of energy studies, well beyond their traditional focus on security of supply and international oil politics and governance. Under the conceptual umbrella of energy security, two…
The New Offshore Frontiers of EU Energy Security in the Mediterranean
Many EU Mediterranean countries are developing national plans for offshore hydrocarbon exploration and production. The transformation of the Mediterranean Sea into a new frontier for EU energy security has raised important concerns about the protection of the fragile marine ecosystem of this semi-enclosed sea. Additional issues have emerged where states’ boundaries at sea are not yet defined. This article analyses the emerging international and t…
Italian energy security, the Southern Gas Corridor and the new pipeline politics in Western Europe
Subsystem politics and policy coherence in development cooperation
Europeanization, Institutionalization and Policy Change in French and Italian Electricity Policy
This article focuses on the role of institutionalization of public policies in the EU member states' response to Europeanization in energy-related policy domain. The article first provides a critical overview of the “goodness of fit” logic. It is argued that such a logic is problematic in explaining the policy change and the policy development at the domestic level. Then the article proposes to integrate the goodness of fit framework with the ana…
The EU as catalytic state? Rethinking European climate and energy governance
The regulatory state has provided a useful framework for conceptualizing the nature of the EU and its role in policy making. Although it is widely accepted that the conditions of European integration have dramatically changed since the 1990s, when this approach was formulated, few scholars have sought to theorize the EU ‘beyond’ the regulatory state. To fill this gap, this article puts forward the concept of the catalytic state, tracing its emerg…
The new politics of energy security and the rise of the catalytic state in southern Europe
European energy security has recently emerged as an important topic of scholarly attention. Many studies have scrutinised the political and institutional innovations triggered by the establishment of the European Union internal energy market and external energy policy. However, the literature indicates a particularly striking gap between growing research and concept development, and only recently have efforts been made to analyse this current dyn…
Catalytic Power Europe
The global influence of the European Union (EU) has been debated in overlapping strands of literature as ‘normative’, ‘regulatory’ and ‘market power’. They identify the diffusion of its rules and standards as a vehicle of European power. We argue that European power extends beyond its regulatory capacities and includes new ‘catalytic’ capacities in the realm of financing and network building. We analyse blended finance as an instrument of ‘cataly…
Italian energy security, the Southern Gas Corridor and the new pipeline politics in Western Europe
Winter is coming
By focussing on the Italian case and on transformations in state-market relations in the natural gas sector, this article examines the post-war European politics of energy security. It argues that rather than fostering EU-level path-breaking measures, the war has brought back the 'partner state' in the EU energy realm. This model, which supported the structuration of East-West energy interdependence during the Cold War, envisages direct modes of …
Governing by Enabling in Multilevel Systems
This article investigates whether, how and under what conditions European Union (EU) capacity‐building programmes actually contribute to improving the action capacity of target actors in view of common policy objectives. The empirical analysis focuses on the European Local Energy Assistance (ELENA) technical facility that aims to enhance local authorities' project development and management capacities in the field of renewables and energy efficie…
Europeanization, Institutionalization and Policy Change in French and Italian Electricity Policy
This article focuses on the role of institutionalization of public policies in the EU member states' response to Europeanization in energy-related policy domain. The article first provides a critical overview of the “goodness of fit” logic. It is argued that such a logic is problematic in explaining the policy change and the policy development at the domestic level. Then the article proposes to integrate the goodness of fit framework with the ana…
A green but also just transition? Variations in social and industrial policy responses to industrial decarbonisation in EU member states
The EU aims for net carbon neutrality by 2050. Since industry contributes substantially to carbon emissions, reforms to decarbonise industry are necessary to achieve this goal. However, these reforms may entail labour market costs in the form of unemployment, which may necessitate social policies to mitigate them. Our article provides a novel contribution to the existing literature by developing a framework to classify how these policy responses …
Beyond the regulatory state
The necessary reorientation of Italian energy policy
The 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine triggered profound changes in European energy policy. This was particularly the case for a country like Italy, highly dependent on Russian gas supplies and traditionally an energy partner of Moscow. In this article, we trace the major policy measures enacted by the Draghi government to address security-of-supply risks and foster the development of renewable energy. Moreover, we highlight a number of continuiti…
The Italian energy transition in a multilevel system
The article analyses drivers as well as coordination mechanisms and instruments for the energy transition in Italy from a multilevel governance perspective. It addresses the structural constraints that influenced the decision-making processes and organisation of the Italian energy sector and the socio-technical challenges opened up by enhancing renewables. The current energy system is making the move from a centralised, path-dependent institution…
Italy, Russia and the Great Reconfiguration in East–West Energy Relations
Italy is the second largest market for Russian gas in the EU, and Italy–Russia energy relations stretch back to the Cold War period. By developing an original framework for the study of the politics of producer–consumer cooperation based on an international political economy approach and the analytical concept of forms of state, this article examines the origins, evolution and current features of Italy–Russia dyadic energy relations. This analysi…
Energy Security in the Eastern Mediterranean
Subsystem politics and policy coherence in development cooperation
The NRRP and the Italian energy transition. Interest groups in implementation, between structural power, insiderness and new coalitions
Italian energy policy has traditionally been significantly influenced by large state-owned companies, commonly referred to as national champions, as well as by fossil fuel interests. The impact of the energy transition on this situation has been limited, as the adoption of renewables in Italy has not been accompanied by the emergence of a robust green coalition. The National Recovery and Resilience Plan provided an opportunity to address this sit…
The dismantling of renewable energy policy in Italy
The expansion of renewables is still dependent on appropriate policy support. Nonetheless, in the wake of the economic crisis, even pioneer European countries have begun to dismantle the set of measures implemented in the past decades. Policy dismantling in the area of renewable energy is a recent phenomenon that has attracted little attention in comparison to the study of the diffusion of support schemes. By focusing on the dismantling of renewa…
The New Offshore Frontiers of EU Energy Security in the Mediterranean
Many EU Mediterranean countries are developing national plans for offshore hydrocarbon exploration and production. The transformation of the Mediterranean Sea into a new frontier for EU energy security has raised important concerns about the protection of the fragile marine ecosystem of this semi-enclosed sea. Additional issues have emerged where states’ boundaries at sea are not yet defined. This article analyses the emerging international and t…
Europeanization, Institutionalization and Policy Change in French and Italian Electricity Policy
This article focuses on the role of institutionalization of public policies in the EU member states' response to Europeanization in energy-related policy domain. The article first provides a critical overview of the “goodness of fit” logic. It is argued that such a logic is problematic in explaining the policy change and the policy development at the domestic level. Then the article proposes to integrate the goodness of fit framework with the ana…
Subsystem politics and policy coherence in development cooperation
Italian energy security, the Southern Gas Corridor and the new pipeline politics in Western Europe
The New Offshore Frontiers of EU Energy Security in the Mediterranean
Many EU Mediterranean countries are developing national plans for offshore hydrocarbon exploration and production. The transformation of the Mediterranean Sea into a new frontier for EU energy security has raised important concerns about the protection of the fragile marine ecosystem of this semi-enclosed sea. Additional issues have emerged where states’ boundaries at sea are not yet defined. This article analyses the emerging international and t…
Giganti petroliferi e grandi consumatori. Gli Stati Uniti, la Gran Bretagna e la rivoluzione petrolifera (1968–1974)
In recent years, Italian historiography has once again paid special attention to the crucial period between the late 1960s and early 1970s, a period in which the structure of the global oil market
Energy Security in the Eastern Mediterranean
The Palgrave handbook of the international political economy of energy
After the first wave of energy research that coincided with the 1970s oil shocks, scholarly interest in energy affairs declined, only to re-emerge at the beginning of the twenty-first century. This second wave of scholarship has considerably widened and deepened the scope of energy studies, well beyond their traditional focus on security of supply and international oil politics and governance. Under the conceptual umbrella of energy security, two…
The new politics of energy security and the rise of the catalytic state in southern Europe
European energy security has recently emerged as an important topic of scholarly attention. Many studies have scrutinised the political and institutional innovations triggered by the establishment of the European Union internal energy market and external energy policy. However, the literature indicates a particularly striking gap between growing research and concept development, and only recently have efforts been made to analyse this current dyn…
Beyond the regulatory state
Beyond the EU Regulatory State
Italy, Russia and the Great Reconfiguration in East–West Energy Relations
Italy is the second largest market for Russian gas in the EU, and Italy–Russia energy relations stretch back to the Cold War period. By developing an original framework for the study of the politics of producer–consumer cooperation based on an international political economy approach and the analytical concept of forms of state, this article examines the origins, evolution and current features of Italy–Russia dyadic energy relations. This analysi…
The Italian energy transition in a multilevel system
The article analyses drivers as well as coordination mechanisms and instruments for the energy transition in Italy from a multilevel governance perspective. It addresses the structural constraints that influenced the decision-making processes and organisation of the Italian energy sector and the socio-technical challenges opened up by enhancing renewables. The current energy system is making the move from a centralised, path-dependent institution…
The EU as catalytic state? Rethinking European climate and energy governance
The regulatory state has provided a useful framework for conceptualizing the nature of the EU and its role in policy making. Although it is widely accepted that the conditions of European integration have dramatically changed since the 1990s, when this approach was formulated, few scholars have sought to theorize the EU ‘beyond’ the regulatory state. To fill this gap, this article puts forward the concept of the catalytic state, tracing its emerg…
Governing by Enabling in Multilevel Systems
This article investigates whether, how and under what conditions European Union (EU) capacity‐building programmes actually contribute to improving the action capacity of target actors in view of common policy objectives. The empirical analysis focuses on the European Local Energy Assistance (ELENA) technical facility that aims to enhance local authorities' project development and management capacities in the field of renewables and energy efficie…
The dismantling of renewable energy policy in Italy
The expansion of renewables is still dependent on appropriate policy support. Nonetheless, in the wake of the economic crisis, even pioneer European countries have begun to dismantle the set of measures implemented in the past decades. Policy dismantling in the area of renewable energy is a recent phenomenon that has attracted little attention in comparison to the study of the diffusion of support schemes. By focusing on the dismantling of renewa…
The necessary reorientation of Italian energy policy
The 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine triggered profound changes in European energy policy. This was particularly the case for a country like Italy, highly dependent on Russian gas supplies and traditionally an energy partner of Moscow. In this article, we trace the major policy measures enacted by the Draghi government to address security-of-supply risks and foster the development of renewable energy. Moreover, we highlight a number of continuiti…
The NRRP and the Italian energy transition. Interest groups in implementation, between structural power, insiderness and new coalitions
Italian energy policy has traditionally been significantly influenced by large state-owned companies, commonly referred to as national champions, as well as by fossil fuel interests. The impact of the energy transition on this situation has been limited, as the adoption of renewables in Italy has not been accompanied by the emergence of a robust green coalition. The National Recovery and Resilience Plan provided an opportunity to address this sit…
Greening energy governance through agencification in the Global South
This article offers the first comprehensive analysis of the emergent modes for greening electricity governance through agencification in the Global South by examining the drivers and role of renewable energy agencies (REAs) in various countries in the Middle East and North Africa region. Furthermore, the article illustrates the impact of this form of agencification on the deployment of renewables and the “democratization” of energy governance. We…
Winter is coming
By focussing on the Italian case and on transformations in state-market relations in the natural gas sector, this article examines the post-war European politics of energy security. It argues that rather than fostering EU-level path-breaking measures, the war has brought back the 'partner state' in the EU energy realm. This model, which supported the structuration of East-West energy interdependence during the Cold War, envisages direct modes of …
Catalytic Power Europe
The global influence of the European Union (EU) has been debated in overlapping strands of literature as ‘normative’, ‘regulatory’ and ‘market power’. They identify the diffusion of its rules and standards as a vehicle of European power. We argue that European power extends beyond its regulatory capacities and includes new ‘catalytic’ capacities in the realm of financing and network building. We analyse blended finance as an instrument of ‘cataly…
Relaunching the Italian energy transition
Incumbents, such as major companies that dominate conventional electricity production, have traditionally been viewed as opponents of energy transition. However, recent scholarship suggests that a more nuanced understanding of their evolving role in energy systems transformation is needed. Drawing on this strand of research, as well as policy literature on business politics, organised interests and lobbying, the paper develops an original analyti…
A green but also just transition? Variations in social and industrial policy responses to industrial decarbonisation in EU member states
The EU aims for net carbon neutrality by 2050. Since industry contributes substantially to carbon emissions, reforms to decarbonise industry are necessary to achieve this goal. However, these reforms may entail labour market costs in the form of unemployment, which may necessitate social policies to mitigate them. Our article provides a novel contribution to the existing literature by developing a framework to classify how these policy responses …
Italy’s foreign energy policy and the Mattei Plan
The Mattei Plan represents Italy’s latest attempt to frame its engagement in Africa, integrating economic cooperation with broader foreign policy goals such as development and energy security. The Plan testifies to the Meloni government’s balancing act between a moderate nationalism premised on status enhancing policies, staunch Atlanticism, and a degree of post-ideological Euro-realism. Boosting the country’s projection in Africa was identified …
Between Repurposing and Innovation
Offshore energy infrastructures are becoming increasingly central to the low-carbon transition while raising pressing questions of resilience and security. Assets such as offshore wind installations, subsea electricity cables, and pipelines are exposed to a growing range of environmental, technological, and geopolitical risks, as well as cyber and physical threats. This article develops an analytical framework for the study of critical offshore e…
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