Abstract

The European Union's dense web of institutions is usually regarded as enabling better decision making and interest representation in the European Union's external relations. Combined with the European Union's ambiguous nature, the institutional complex can also function as a foil for governments when tension between material imperatives and declared normative foundations and ambitions is high. The energy–democracy relationship divulges a “pragmatic–realist institutionalism” on the part of European politicians, officials, and agencies. A logic of collective inaction toward difficult but essential “partners,” rather than one of ethical “appropriateness,” has developed and indicates the limits of normative policy and theory.La densa red de instituciones de la Unión Europea es usualmente aclamada por facilitar una mejor toma de decisiones y representación de intereses en las relaciones de la Unión Europea en el exterior. Combinada con la naturaleza ambigua de la Unión Europea, el complejo institucional puede también funcionar como un impedimento para los gobiernos cuando la tensión entre los imperativos materiales y los declarados fundamentos normativos y ambiciones es alta. La relación energía‐democracia divulga un “institucionalismo pragmático–realista” por parte de los políticos europeos, oficiales y agencias. Una lógica de inactividad colectiva hacia los difíciles pero esenciales “compañeros,” en vez de una lógica de “propiedad”ética, ha desarrollado e indica los límites de la política y teoría normativa.

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