Dr. Andreas Goldthau is Professor at Central European University, Associate with the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School, and Fellow with the Global Public Policy Institute, Berlin. Dr. Goldthau's research interests focus on energy security and on global governance issues related to oil and gas. His books and edited volumes include Global Energy Challenge: Environment, Development, and Security (Palgrave MacMillan, forthcoming), The Handbook of Global Energy Policy (Wiley Blackwell, 2013), Dynamics of Energy Governance in Europe and Russia (Palgrave, 2012), Global Energy Governance: The New Rules of the Game (Brookings Press, 2010), Imported Oil and U.S. National Security (RAND, 2009) and OPEC (Hanser, 2009).

Dr. Nick Sitter is Professor of Public Policy at the Department of Public Policy at Central European University, Professor of Political Economy at the BI Norwegian Business School, Research Associate at the Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His books and edited volumes include Europe's Nascent State: Public Policy in the EU (Gyledendal Akademiske, 2006), Understanding Public Management (Sage, 2008), a special issue of Nations and Nationalism on constitutions (2010), and Terrorismens Historie (Dreyer, forthcoming).

"The book has several theoretical and empirical contributions to offer. The book also offers rich empirical evidence about what IPE actually entails in the EU and what the specific challenges are and which tools are involved. Finally, having established that the EU is a liberal regulatory state, the book asks several questions about EU actorness in the IPE of energy such as, for example, how the heterogeneity of preferences among Member states might impact on EU actorness externally. The monograph, therefore, not only contributes to the existing theoretical and empirical debate but also nourishes this debate with additional points for future research." -Global Policy