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Dr. Kirsten Westphal

Dr. Kirsten Westphal


Research Division: Global Issues
Senior Associate

kirsten.westphal(at)swp-berlin.org

2003-2008 Assistant Professor at JLU Gießen for International Relations and Foreign Policy

1999-2002 Researcher at the JLU Gießen, Guest researcher at IRELA Madrid and Center for International Development and Environmental Relations (CIDER) JLU Gießen

1996-1998 PreussenElektra AG

Expertise:

International Energy Relations, Global Energy Security, Limits to Regional and Global Governance in Europe, Russia, Caspian Basin and the Americas, Domestic and External Energy Policy of Germany and the EU


Current focus:

International Energy Governance, EU External Energy Governance with Emerging Powers, Energy Security and the Political and Social Changes in North Africa and the Middle East

SWP-Papers (selection):

Unconventional Oil and Gas – Global Consequences

SWP Comments 2013/C 12, March 2013, 8 Pages
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Globalising the German Energy Transition

SWP Comments 2012/C 40, December 2012, 7 Pages
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with Sybille Röhrkasten

IRENA: Stay the Course!

On the Value of a Multilateral Organisation for Renewable Energy

SWP Comments 2012/C 37, November 2012, 4 Pages
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Security of Gas Supply

Four Political Challenges under the Spotlight

SWP Comments 2012/C 17, June 2012, 7 Pages
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with Ralf Dickel

EU–Russia Gas Relations

How to Manage New Uncertainties and Imbalances

SWP Comments 2012/C 12, April 2012, 8 Pages
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Publications (selection):

Energy in an Era of Unprecedented Uncertainty: International Energy Governance in the Face of Macroeconomic, Geopolitical, and Systemic Challenges

in: David Koranyi (ed.), Transatlantic Energy Futures: Strategic Perspectives on Energy Security, Climate Change and New Technologies in Europe and the United States, Center for Transatlantic Relations, 2011, pp.1-26.
with Thijs Van de Graaf

The G8 and G20 as Global Steering Committees for Energy: Opportunities and Constraints

in: Global Policy 2 (1), September 2011, pp. 19 -30
with Dries Lesage, with Thijs Van de Graaf

Global Energy Governance in a Multipolar World

Ashgate, Farnham 2010
with Dries Lesage, with Thijs Van de Graaf

G8+5 collaboration on energy efficiency and IPEEC

Shortcut to a sustainable future?

in: Energy Policy, December 2009, online

Germany and the EU-Russia Energy Dialogue

in: P. Aalto (ed.) The EU-Russian Energy Dialogue Europe's Future Energy Supply Aldershot/ Burlington: Ashgate, 2007, pp.93-118

In the press:

The four great challenges for the European gas market

in: European Energy Review, 02.07.2012 (online)

SWP Research Papers

Marianne Beisheim, Susanne Dröge
UNCSD Rio 2012

Twenty Years of Sustainability Policies – Now Put into Practice?
Marianne Beisheim
Partnerships for Sustainable Development

Why and How Rio+20 Must Improve the Framework for Multi-stakeholder Partnerships