Lecturer in Politics, University of East Anglia

Email address: p.bocquillon (at) uea.ac.uk

Biography

Pierre is a Lecturer in Politics at the University of East Anglia (UEA) and a Research Fellow in the Centre for Environment Energy and Natural Resource Governance (C-EENRG), University of Cambridge. He holds a Masters degree in Geography (University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne), a Masters degree in Political Science (Sciences Po Paris) and a PhD in Politics and International Studies (University of Cambridge). Before taking his position at UEA, he worked as a post-doctoral research associate at C-EENRG.

Research interests

Pierre works on energy and climate change policies in the EU and its member states. His current research interests also include the external dimension of EU’s energy and climate policies, the politics of renewable energy promotion and the democratic governance of energy and climate change. He takes part in the BRIDGE project – ‘Building Resilience In a Dynamic Global Economy: Complexity across scales in the Brazilian Food-Water-Energy Nexus’ – funded by the Newton Fund and led by C-EENRG.

Selected publications

Peer-reviewed articles

‘(De-) Constructing coherence? Strategic entrepreneurs, policy frames and the integration of climate and energy policies in the European Union’, Environmental Policy & Governance forthcoming 2017.

‘The more the merrier? Assessing the impact of enlargement on European energy and climate change policies’, East European Politics, forthcoming 2017 (with Tomas Maltby).

‘Rattraper ou devancer l’Europe? Politiques française des énergies renouvelables et dynamiques d’européanisation en France, 52(2) (2016) Politique Européenne 32-56 (with Aurélien Evrard).

Book chapters

‘EU renewable policies: a brief overview of their history and evolution’, in I. Solorio and H. Jörgens (eds) A Guide to EU Renewable Energy Policy: Comparing Europeanization and Domestic Policy Change in EU Member States (Edward Elgar, forthcoming 2017) (with Israel Solorio Sandoval).

‘Complying with, resisting or using Europe? Explaining the uneven and diffuse Europeanization of French renewable electricity and biofuels policies’, in I. Solorio and H. Jörgens (eds) A Guide to EU Renewable Energy Policy: Comparing Europeanization and Domestic Policy Change in EU Member States (Edward Elgar, forthcoming 2017) (with Aurélien Evrard).

‘French climate policy: diplomacy in the service of symbolic leadership’, in R.K.W Wurzel, D. Liefferink and J. Connelly (eds) Still Taking a Lead? The European Union in International Climate Change Politics (Routledge, 2016) pp. 98-113 (with Aurélien Evrard).

Teaching in the field of energy law

At UEA, Pierre lectures on politics, including EU environmental and energy policies as well as global environmental politics. At Cambridge he co-taught an interdisciplinary course on ‘energy and climate change‘.

See also Pierre’s institutional profile.