Europe Director - Arctic Security, Cooperation, and Institutions
M.S. European Affairs (2009), Lunds Universitet, Sweden
B.A. International Relations (2007), Technical University Dresden, Germany
kathrin.keil@thearcticinstitute.org
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Research interests: Arctic oil and gas, shipping and fishing development, Arctic geopolitics, cooperation and conflict, role of international institutions
Kathrin Keil is currently a PhD Candidate at the Berlin Graduate School for Transnational Studies(BTS) at the Freie Universität Berlin. She is writing her dissertation on the international politics of the Arctic, with a focus on international regimes and institutions in the areas of energy, shipping and fishing. She has a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations from the Technische Universität Dresden and a Master of Science in European Affairs from Lunds Universitet in Sweden. Her fascination with the Arctic began during an internship at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP Berlin) in 2009, and continues in her doctoral research and frequent travel to the Scandinavian countries.
Professional experience, publications, conference presentations:
11/2012. Opening Oil and Gas Development in the Arctic: A Conflict and Risk Assessment, Tvergastein Interdisciplinary Journal of the Environment, 2nd issue, pp. 36-43. Available here.
10/2011 - 04/2012. Lecturer, John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Free University Berlin, Master Seminar 32512_11W IR Therory and North America's New Security Challenges in the Arctic.
2012. The EU in the Arctic 'Game' - The Concert of Arctic Actors and the EU's Newcomer Role. FU Berlin Dokumentenserver. Available here.
2012. The Prominence of Arctic Energy Resources. Presentation at Arctic Frontiers Conference 2012 ‘Energies of the High North’, 22-27 January 2012, Tromsø, Norway. Available here.
2011. Governing the Arctic – The Case of Arctic Energy Resources. Paper presented at the International PhD Workshop ‘Transnational Dimensions of Global Governance’, Hebrew University Jerusalem, Israel, 23-25 November 2011.
2011. The Arctic – A New Region of Contention?. Paper presented at the International Studies Association Asia-Pacific Regional Conference, Brisbane, Australia, 29-30 September 2011.
Professional experience, publications, conference presentations:
11/2012. Opening Oil and Gas Development in the Arctic: A Conflict and Risk Assessment, Tvergastein Interdisciplinary Journal of the Environment, 2nd issue, pp. 36-43. Available here.
10/2011 - 04/2012. Lecturer, John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Free University Berlin, Master Seminar 32512_11W IR Therory and North America's New Security Challenges in the Arctic.
2012. The EU in the Arctic 'Game' - The Concert of Arctic Actors and the EU's Newcomer Role. FU Berlin Dokumentenserver. Available here.
2012. The Prominence of Arctic Energy Resources. Presentation at Arctic Frontiers Conference 2012 ‘Energies of the High North’, 22-27 January 2012, Tromsø, Norway. Available here.
2011. Governing the Arctic – The Case of Arctic Energy Resources. Paper presented at the International PhD Workshop ‘Transnational Dimensions of Global Governance’, Hebrew University Jerusalem, Israel, 23-25 November 2011.
2011. The Arctic – A New Region of Contention?. Paper presented at the International Studies Association Asia-Pacific Regional Conference, Brisbane, Australia, 29-30 September 2011.
