Marcel Viëtor

Program Officer for Energy and Climate, Alfred von Oppenheim-Center for European Policy Studies

Areas of Specialization:

• German and European foreign energy policy
• Russian energy and economic policy
• Russian foreign and security policy
• International climate politics
• ‚European identity’

Languages: English, Russian, (French)
phone: + 49 (0)30 25 42 31-36
vietor@dgap.org

Marcel Viëtor has been a resident fellow at the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) and responsible for energy and climate issues since January 2009. In 2009, he headed the Foreign Energy Policy program. Since January 2010, he has been working on energy and climate politics within the Alfred von Oppenheim-Center for European Studies. Before joining the DGAP, he worked as stagiaire in the energy section of the European Commission’s delegation to Moscow. During his studies he interned at, inter alia, an international energy company in Moscow, the German Embassy in Uzbekistan, the Senate Office of the City-State of Hamburg and the German Parliament.

Marcel Viëtor completed a joint German-Russian Master’s program in International Relations in Berlin/Potsdam (MAIB) and Moscow (MGIMO). Prior to that, he obtained his first Master’s degree in Socio-Cultural Anthropology, East European Studies and Public Law in Hamburg.

Publications (Selection)

Articles:

• with Oldag Caspar: „Climate Politics: The Motor Sputters – Germany’s Foreign Policy Needs a New Major Project“(= DGAPstandpunkt 9/2009), 4 pp. (German version: „Klimapolitik: Das Zugpferd lahmt – Deutschlands Außenpolitik braucht ein neues Großprojekt“; Russian version (in: Vremya Novostey, 17 November 2009: „ Сбросить оцепенение . Внешней политике Германии нужен новый передовой проект в области климата“.)
• „ Germany and the EU Have to Take a Leading Role at Climate Summit because no one Will “. In: Diplomatisches Magazin 12 (2009), pp. 26‑27.
• „Schritte in die Energiezukunft – IRENA und Desertec“. In: SOUQ. Das Ghorfa-Wirtschaftsmagazin 3 (2009), pp. 22‑23.
• „IRENA and RuDEA – Germany Promotes Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Globally“(= DGAPaktuell 5/2009), 4 pp. (German version: „IRENA und RuDEA – erneuerbare Energien und Energieeffizienz global fördern“.)
• „Don’t Go It All Alone. The EU and Russia Must Develop and Advance Their Energy Relations Together – Starting From the Very Beginning“(= DGAPstandpunkt 4/2009), 4 pp. (German version: „Schluss mit den Alleingängen. Die EU und Russland müssen ihre Energiebeziehungen gemeinsam entwickeln und vorantreiben – von Anfang an“.)
• „Europa und Russland. Zur Konstruktion ‚europäischer Identität’“. In: Volkskunde in Sachsen 20 (2008), pp. 119-152.
• „Mitteleuropa und die Anerkennung ‚europäischer Identität’. Wegweiser für die Ukraine?“. In: Fleischhack, Julia (ed.): „Ostwärts. Ethnographische Erkundungen in der Ukraine“ (= VOKUS. Volkskundlich-Kulturwissenschaftliche Schriften 17/2 (2007)), pp. 95-114.

Monographs:

• „Europa und die Frage nach seinen Grenzen im Osten. Zur Konstruktion ‚europäischer Identität’ in Geschichte und Gegenwart " (= Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society 93). Stuttgart 2010.
• „Russian Foreign Policy between Security and Economics. Exporting Gas and Arms to Belarus and China 1990-2008" (= Forschungsberichte Internationale Politik 39). Berlin 2009.

Edited Volumes:

• with Kristin Linke (eds.): „Perspectives of a Triangular Relationship. The Energy Relations between the EU, Russia and Turkey “ (= International Policy Analysis, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung), Berlin 2010.
• with Jule Böhmer (eds.): „Osteuropa heute. Entwicklungen – Gemeinsamkeiten – Unterschiede" (= Osteuropa. Geschichte, Wirtschaft, Politik 43). Hamburg 2007.

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