Engergy Security in the Baltic Sea Region: Regional coordination and and management of interdependencies

The study maps changing energy relations in the Baltic Sea region in the aftermath of two events – the 2004 EU enlargement that has changed the political and institutional / regulatory landscape of the region and the outbreak of the armed conflict in Ukraine that has put the issue of energy security...

Norwegian gas in Europe: Part of a solution or part of a problem?

Has the EU Learnt from the Ukraine Crisis? Changes to Security, Energy and Migration Governance

The Russia-Ukraine crisis has not only dramatically changed the EU’s security situation but also poses challenges well beyond the security arena. The conflict between Europe’s main energy supplier and its most important gas transit country has already had an impact on regional energy cooperation. The...

Czy UE wyciągnęła wnioski z kryzysu na Ukrainie? Zmiany w rządzeniu w obszarze bezpieczeństwa, energii i migracji

Macht aus der Pipeline: Russlands Energiepolitik und die EU

Russland nutzt seine Energieressourcen zu geopolitischen Zwecken. Gazprom ist pro forma ein unabhängiges Unternehmen, de facto aber Mittel zu Zwecken, die der Kreml vorgibt. So werden etwa die Gaspreise für die Nachbarstaaten in Abhängigkeit von der politischen Nähe der jeweiligen Führung zum Kreml festgelegt,...

The Power to Influence Europe? Russia’s Grand Gas Strategy, PISM Strategic File 6(69)

As most of Russia’s energy exports go to the European Union, both players are strongly interdependent. For Russia energy resources, especially gas, are viewed as a tool to project power beyond its borders. However, Russia’s room for “gas manoeuvre” is constrained by its own capacities, the gas strategies...

What Makes Dialogue and Diplomacy Work or not? Russia – Georgia and Russia – Ukraine

Energy in the neighborhood: Russian and EU perspectives and policies

Project: Mapping Polish and Norwegian perspective on regional integration in Eastern Europe

New European Diasporas and Migration Governance:Poles in Norway

The EU has usually considered immigration policy for third country nationals and the free movement framework for EU citizens to be two separate policy fields. Increasingly, they are being conflated. This places a country such as Poland in an ambivalent position. When it comes to the treatment of third...

Innovation, networks and energy governance: The case of shale gas, GR:EEN Policy Brief 22

This Policy Brief explores the role of technological innovation in shaping energy governance and how energy governance is being shaped by actors operating in various types of policy networks in the EU. The main aim of this brief is to explore how new technology – in this case the technology making it...

Linking National and European Governance: Lessons for Poland and Norway, PISM Strategic File nr.17(53)

(Co-authored/co-edited with Polish members of the project team Lidia Puka, Roderick Parkes,Agata Gostyńska, Pernille Rieker, Marta Stormowska)Influencing the EU’s governance poses both a challenge and an opportunity to mid-size countries like Poland and Norway. As an analytical approach, “experimentalist...

Mapping EU countries’ relationships with energy suppliers, GR:EEN European Policy Brief 28

The Norwegian Energy Security Debate : Domestic and International Dimensions