Hedvika Koďousková

Masaryk University | MUNI · Department of International Relations and European Studies

Although energy poverty is now high on the EU agenda, pressing member states to adopt targeted policies, there are considerable differences in the state of play across individual countries. In this context, it is worth investigating how this agenda translates into policy. We aim to contribute to this underrepresented strand of research in the energ...

Slovakia is one of the few countries with an official energy poverty definition. Nevertheless, it is listed among the ten most lagging EU Member States in terms of progress in alleviating energy poverty. There are also concerns about the fairness of measures to combat it. This paper builds on the energy justice perspective and a spatially-sensitive...

In the Czech Republic, energy poverty assessments have primarily relied on traditional indicators. Despite performing well compared to other countries in the region, there is a risk that those suffering from energy poverty are misrecognized and receive insufficient support. This research aims to bring a missing perspective on households' lived expe...

In the Czech Republic, the public debate around energy poverty was nascent. Only recently, the issue has gained more significant political and media attention due to rising energy prices in the autumn of 2021 and the bankruptcy of several alternative energy services providers, including the most prominent one - Bohemia Energy. In total, around 900...

This article examines whether the Russian Eastern Energy Policy (EEP) corresponds to the widely shared perception that Russia uses energy resources as part of its domestic and foreign policy goals and to assess the role of Gazprom in Russias overall governmental strategy. For this purpose, we have developed an ideal energy policy model grounded in...

The book analyses activities of Russian state-owned energy companies in the region of the Central and Eastern Europe and offers a complex analysis of their behavioural patterns with regard to the operational environment. The main incentives for making this study were traditionally strong ties between the Russian Federation and the region as well as...

Using the existing theoretical discussion as a starting point, the aim of this article is to interrogate critically the strategic character of China's energy policy towards Russia. Having carefully examined the premises of the "Strategic Approach" to energy security, the article proceeds to define specific research questions, which are applied to C...

Na jakých základech stojí energetická bezpečnost Číny a Indie? Jak na razantní ekonomický, potažmo energetický růst těchto zemí reaguje Japonsko - tradiční asijský spotřebitel? Jaké jsou hlavní rysy energetické politiky Ruska coby jednoho z největších producentů a exportérů energetických surovin s mimořádnou významností v evropském, ale i asijském...

Kniha se zaměřuje na roli, kterou energetické suroviny, především ropa, hrají v zahraniční politice USA. Vedle klíčového postavení, které USA zastávají v mezinárodních vztazích, je významná též jejich role v otázkách energetické bezpečnosti. První kapitola zachycuje historický vývoj ropného průmyslu ve Spojených státech v druhé polovině 19. a na po...

The ambition of the paper is to analyze the major characteristics of the Chinese energy policy towards the most important producers of natural gas in China’s neighborhood. The analytical perspectives of a strategic approach to energy security and state-centric realism are used to work with case studies of Sino-Russian and Sino-Turkmen relations fro...

The upcoming years will show whether or not the North American model of unconventional natural gas resources development can be replicated outsider the continent. In Europe, Poland has recently gained most attention and in this sense it is considered to be a test case for whole Union. This book presents key dimensions which will either foster or in...

The study examines the impact which the potential curtailment of oil supplies through the Druzhba pipeline could have on the Czech and Polish oil industries. It starts, therefore, with a comprehensive analysis of the Czech and Polish oil sectors. The section that follows focuses on Russia. It examines the Russian oil sector, export preferences and...