Dr. Jacopo Maria Pepe
Global Issues Associate
Areas of Expertise
FocusGlobal and regional Connectivity, Transport, Logistics, Energy Policy, Value and Supply chains, Trade in Eurasia (including Eastern Europe and China), Regional cooperation and alliances (EAEU, BRI), Eastern Partnership, Global Governance/International Order, Russia, China, Kasachstan, Usbekistan, Eastern Europe
Working Groups
Short Curriculum vitae
Since 2024: Head of follow-up project “Geopolitics of the Energy Transition in Greater Asia (GET GA)” and contributor to thematic working group economic and technological transformations
Since 2022: Head of the project "Geopolitics of the Energy Transition - Hydrogen (GET H2)"
Since 2021 Research Associate in the Project "Geopolitics of the Energy Transition - Hydrogen (GET H2)"
2019-2020 Research Associate in the Project "Geopolitics of the Energy Transformation"
2018-2019 Research Fellow and Projectmanager, German Council on Foreign Relations, Robert Bosch Center for Middle-Eastern, Europe, Russia, Central Asia
2016-2017 Adjunct Professor, Associate Faculty Member, Edwin O Reischauer Center for Asian and East-Asian Studies, SAIS, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC.
2012-2013 Lecturer, Moscow University of Railway Engineering-Chair Geopolitics and Economy of Transport and Energy Systems
2011-2015 Research Fellow, Freie Universität Berlin Centre for Caspian Energy and Environmental Studies
SWP Publications
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The Geopolitics of the Energy Transition in Greater Asia
Background, Dynamics, and Trend Mapping from within the Region
SWP Comment 2025/C 01, 13.01.2025, 7 Pagesdoi:10.18449/2025C01
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German Central Asia Policy after the “Zeitenwende”
Challenges and Opportunities for a Strategic Partnership
SWP Comment 2024/C 35, 16.08.2024, 8 Pagesdoi:10.18449/2024C35
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Towards a Geopolitics of Carbon Capture & Storage (CCS) in Asia
Transregional Links and Implications for Germany and Europe
SWP Comment 2024/C 34, 09.08.2024, 8 Pagesdoi:10.18449/2024C34
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The Geopolitics of Hydrogen
Technologies, Actors, and Scenarios until 2040
SWP Research Paper 2023/RP 13, 16.11.2023, 45 Pagesdoi:10.18449/2023RP13v02
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Toward a hydrogen import strategy for Germany and the EU
Priorities, countries, and multilateral frameworks
Research Division Global Issues, Working Paper 2023/No. 1, June 2023, 28 pages -
Geopolitics of Electricity: Grids, Space and (political) Power
SWP Research Paper 2022/RP 06, 15.03.2022, 57 Pagesdoi:10.18449/2022RP06
External publications
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The EU in Central Asia
in: Jakob Lempp, Sebastian Mayer (eds.), Central Asia in a Multipolar World, Berlin: Springer, 2024, pp. 305–321doi:10.1007/978-3-031-63727-8_18
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Europe and the Emerging Geopolitics of Electricity Grids
in: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung - Politics for Europe, FES Just Climate, Brussels, 21.5.2024 (online) -
EAEU and Greater Eurasia: mission impossible?
in: Alexander Libman, Evgeny Vinokurov (eds.), The Elgar Companion to the Eurasian Economic Union, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024, Chapter 13, pp. 177-190doi:10.4337/9781800375000.00023
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Podcast: Challenges and Cooperation between the Italian and German Energy Industry in the Energy Transition
in: An Italian-German Dialogue on Energy Security and Transition amid Russia’s War on Ukraine, Istituto Affari Internazionali, 6.3.2024 -
The Emerging Geopolitics of Hydrogen Value and Supply Chains
A Focus on EU’s Future Relations with the Eurasian Supercontinent
in: Journal of International Politics, Vol. 28 No. 2, Winter 2023, pp. 109-144doi:https://doi.org/10.18031/jip.2023.12.28.2.109
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US–China rivalry and its impact on the energy transformation
Difficult cooperation fraught with dilemmas
in: Daniel Scholten (ed.), Handbook on the Geopolitics of the Energy Transition, Elgar Handbooks in Energy, the Environment and Climate Change, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023, Chapter 6, pp. 107-123