Description
Despite the disintegration of the Soviet Union, infrastructure networks of gas pipelines or electricity networks continue to exist and create dependencies amongst now independent states, and with Russia. These infrastructural interdependencies bear potential for conflict but also for cooperation, as most recently exemplified by Russia’s war in Ukraine. Countries in Eastern Europe and in post-Soviet space refrain from sanctions against Russia because of their dependencies on Russian gas. These countries thus develop different strategies to overcome energy dependencies. In this workshop, we address infrastructural interdependencies as well as strategies chosen und developed by the affected countries for countering their dependencies.
Project team
Nafisa Mirzojamshedzoda is a PhD-student at Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development (HNEE), Faculty of Forest and Environment, and the University of Fribourg. She completed her undergraduate studies in Political Science and Anthropology at the University of Heidelberg and received her Master’s degree in International Development Studies from the University of Marburg and Sogang University in Seoul.
Beril Ocaklı is a critical geographer and institutional economist. She has been a research associate at ZOiS since March 2022.
Beril Ocaklı studied International Economics at the Corvinus University of Budapest in Hungary and Development Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science in the UK. After her studies, she led several transdisciplinary projects on resource governance on behalf of the German government, the EU and other multilateral organisations. Before she came to ZOiS, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems (IRI THESys) at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. She also completed her PhD in Human Geography there and still maintains her connection as a guest scholar. She is currently leading the BMBF-funded project China, the EU and Economic Development in Eastern Europe and Eurasia at ZOiS.
Sabine von Löwis is senior researcher at ZOiS since 2017 and head of the research cluster Conflict Dynamics and Border Regions.
She studied Economic and Social Geography at the Technical University of Dresden (TU Dresden) and gained a doctorate in political science at HafenCity University in Hamburg. She has held positions at various university and non-university research institutes, working on projects on the stability and change of spatial structures in urban and rural areas. From 2011 to 2017, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre Marc Bloch, where she was involved in the joint research project Phantomgrenzen in Ostmitteleuropa (Phantom borders in East Central Europe) funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Having studied the persistence and dissolution of spatial structures in Western Ukraine within this project framework, she now focuses her research on the post-Soviet space.
Martin Welp is a research professor on social-ecological transformations with focus on Asia at HNEE.
Martin Welp received his Master’s Degree in Forestry from the University of Helsinki and gained a doctorate in Agriculture from the Technical University Berlin. He has worked in various projects, among others at the Cooperation and Consultancy Point for Environmental Questions (Technical University Berlin), European Forest Institute (Joensuu, Finland), Service Centre for Development Cooperation (Helsinki) and Coalition for Environment and Development (Helsinki). Before joining HNEE, Martin Welp was a researcher at the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Technology at the Darmstadt University of Technology and a Senior scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Department of Global Change & Social Systems.
Kerstin Bischl has been the academic coordinator of the KonKoop research network at ZOiS since April 2022.
She brings a cultural and global history perspective to her work. Her PhD at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin was on gender relations and the dynamics of violence in the everyday life of Red Army soldiers from 1941 to 1945. She was subsequently a research associate at the University of Göttingen, where she worked on a research project on Soviet Jews in ‘late socialism’, established cooperations with universities and civil society partners in Russia, Georgia and Belarus, and coordinated the research network Ambivalences of the Soviet.
Kerstin Bischl has been the academic coordinator of the KonKoop research network at ZOiS since April 2022.
She brings a cultural and global history perspective to her work. Her PhD at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin was on gender relations and the dynamics of violence in the everyday life of Red Army soldiers from 1941 to 1945. She was subsequently a research associate at the University of Göttingen, where she worked on a research project on Soviet Jews in ‘late socialism’, established cooperations with universities and civil society partners in Russia, Georgia and Belarus, and coordinated the research network Ambivalences of the Soviet.
Martin Welp is a research professor on social-ecological transformations with focus on Asia at HNEE.
Martin Welp received his Master’s Degree in Forestry from the University of Helsinki and gained a doctorate in Agriculture from the Technical University Berlin. He has worked in various projects, among others at the Cooperation and Consultancy Point for Environmental Questions (Technical University Berlin), European Forest Institute (Joensuu, Finland), Service Centre for Development Cooperation (Helsinki) and Coalition for Environment and Development (Helsinki). Before joining HNEE, Martin Welp was a researcher at the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Technology at the Darmstadt University of Technology and a Senior scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Department of Global Change & Social Systems.
Sabine von Löwis is senior researcher at ZOiS since 2017 and head of the research cluster Conflict Dynamics and Border Regions.
She studied Economic and Social Geography at the Technical University of Dresden (TU Dresden) and gained a doctorate in political science at HafenCity University in Hamburg. She has held positions at various university and non-university research institutes, working on projects on the stability and change of spatial structures in urban and rural areas. From 2011 to 2017, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre Marc Bloch, where she was involved in the joint research project Phantomgrenzen in Ostmitteleuropa (Phantom borders in East Central Europe) funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Having studied the persistence and dissolution of spatial structures in Western Ukraine within this project framework, she now focuses her research on the post-Soviet space.
Beril Ocaklı is a critical geographer and institutional economist. She has been a research associate at ZOiS since March 2022.
Beril Ocaklı studied International Economics at the Corvinus University of Budapest in Hungary and Development Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science in the UK. After her studies, she led several transdisciplinary projects on resource governance on behalf of the German government, the EU and other multilateral organisations. Before she came to ZOiS, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems (IRI THESys) at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. She also completed her PhD in Human Geography there and still maintains her connection as a guest scholar. She is currently leading the BMBF-funded project China, the EU and Economic Development in Eastern Europe and Eurasia at ZOiS.
Nafisa Mirzojamshedzoda is a PhD-student at Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development (HNEE), Faculty of Forest and Environment, and the University of Fribourg. She completed her undergraduate studies in Political Science and Anthropology at the University of Heidelberg and received her Master’s degree in International Development Studies from the University of Marburg and Sogang University in Seoul.
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