Dr. Kirsten Westphal

Dr. Kirsten Westphal


Research Division: Global Issues
Senior Associate

kirsten.westphal(at)swp-berlin.org

Member of the Expert Council of the Global Commission on the Geopolitics of Energy Transition

Since 2018 Supervisor of the Project "Geopolitics of Energy Transformation"

Since 2017 Member of the Advisory Board, Regional Centre for Energy Policy Research (REKK) Foundation, Budapest

Since 2017 Member of the Editorial Board, "European Energy Journal"

Since 2016 Supervisor of the project "Germany-Poland Energy Dialogue"

2016 Supervisor of the project "Energy Security in the OSCE"

Since 2015 Supervisor of the project "Germany-Russia Energy Dialogue"

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

1999,2000 Guest Researcher at the Instituto de Relaciones Europeo-Latinoamericanas (IRELA), Madrid

1996-1998 Preussen Elektra AG; Guest Researcher at the The Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF)

Areas of Expertise:

Energy policy, EU energy policy

Global Energy Issues and Security of Supply (Oil and Gas), Renewables, International Energy-Governance; Non-conventional Oil and Gas; EU Foreign Energy Relations with the US, Russia, Caspian Region, MENA and Emerging Powers Brazil, China, India and South Africa.


SWP Publications (selection):

Sascha Lohmann, Kirsten Westphal

US-Russia Policy Hits European Energy Supply

The Consequences of Unilateral Sanctions and Growing Market Competition

SWP Comment 2019/C 06, February 2019, 8 Pages

doi:10.18449/2019C06


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Andreas Goldthau, Martin Keim, Kirsten Westphal

The Geopolitics of Energy Transformation

Governing the Shift: Transformation Dividends, Systemic Risks and New Uncertainties

SWP Comment 2018/C 42, October 2018, 4 Pages
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Kirsten Westphal, Aurélie Bros, Tatiana Mitrova

German-Russian Gas Relations

A Special Relationship in Troubled Waters

SWP Research Paper 2017/RP 13, December 2017, 48 Pages
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Ellen Scholl, Kirsten Westphal

European Energy Security Reimagined

Mapping the Risks, Challenges and Opportunities of Changing Energy Geographies

SWP Research Paper 2017/RP 04, March 2017, 34 Pages
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Kai-Olaf Lang, Kirsten Westphal

Nord Stream 2 – A Political and Economic Contextualisation

SWP Research Paper 2017/RP 03, March 2017, 39 Pages
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External Publications (selection):

David Ramin Jalilvand, Kirsten Westphal (eds.)

The Political and Economic Challenges of Energy in the Middle East and North Africa

in: Routledge Global Governance, Routledge, 2018, 302 pages
Kirsten Westphal

The North Sea Region

in: Gerald Stang (ed.), Securing the Energy Union: five pillars and five regions, EU Institute for Security Studies, 2017, pp. 39-47
Kirsten Westphal, Sybille Röhrkasten

The G20 and its Role in Global Energy Governance

in: Sybille Röhrkasten / Sonja Thielges / Rainer Quitzow (eds.), Sustainable Energy in the G20: Prospects for a Global Energy Transition, IASS Study, December 2016, pp. 12-18
Thijs Van de Graaf, Kirsten Westphal

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

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

Global Energy Governance in a Multipolar World

Ashgate, Farnham 2010

Working Papers of the Research Division (selection):

Sybille Röhrkasten, Kirsten Westphal

IRENA and Germany's Foreign Renewable Energy Policy

Aiming at Multilevel Governance and an Internationalization of the Energiewende?

Working Paper FG 8, 2013/ 01, September 2013, 17 Pages
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In the Media/ »Point of View« (selection):

Kirsten Westphal

The four great challenges for the European gas market

in: European Energy Review, 02.07.2012 (online)

News

Kirsten Westphal

Germany’s Energiewende: Climate Change in Focus—Competitiveness and Energy Security Sidelined?in: Godzimirski, Jakub M. (ed.), New Political Economy of Energy in Europe: Power to Project, Power to Adapt, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, pp. 165-194

Maria Pastukhova, Kirsten Westphal

Eurasian Economic Union Integrates Energy Markets – EU Stands Aside

SWP Comment 2018/C 05, January 2018, 8 Pages

 

The Political and Economic Challenges of Energy in the Middle East and North Africa, Routledge Global Governance, Routledge, 2018, (mit David Ramin Jalilvand) (302 pages)

Denis Chukanov, Petra Opitz, Maria Pastukhova, Gianguido Piani, Kirsten Westphal
Renewable Energy and Decentralized Power Generation in Russia: An Opportunity for German-Russian Energy Cooperation
SWP Comments 2017/C 45, November 2017, 8 Seiten

Kacper Szulecki, Kirsten Westphal

Taking security seriously in EU Energy Governance: Crimean Shock and the Energy Union

In: Kacper Szulecki (ed.): Energy Security in Europe: Divergent Perceptions and Policy Challenges, Springer International Publishing AG: Cham, October 2017, pp. 177-202

SWP Comments

Martin Keim, Maria Pastukhova, Maike Voss, Kirsten Westphal
The Link Between Healthcare and Energy Supply

How Joined-up Thinking Can Lead to More Synergies Between the Two Policy Fields

Susanne Dröge, Vijeta Rattani
After the Katowice Climate Summit

Building Blocks for the EU Climate Agenda

SWP Research Papers

David Kipp
From Exception to Rule – the EU Trust Fund for Africa

Marianne Beisheim
UN Reforms for the 2030 Agenda

Are the HLPF’s Working Methods and Practices “Fit for Purpose”?