Caroline Kuzemko
Post-doctoral Fellow, CSGR
Caroline Kuzemko has expertise in international political economy with specialised interests in energy governance and UK, EU and Russian energy policy. Her doctoral research at Warwick commenced September 2007 and her MA was in International Political Economy also at the University of Warwick (2002-2004).
From 1994 to 2002 she worked at UBS Warburg where she became Director responsible for running Emerging Market Equity Sales (excluding Asia) in London. This provided professional experience in corporate management, direct exposure to how financial markets operate as well as access to energy corporations at senior management level for the purposes of analysis.
Her BA was in Russian and German Language and Literature at King's College London (1990-1994)
The international political economy of energy; energy governance norms and institutional change (UK, EU); energy and structural power; Russian energy foreign policy; forms of de- and repoliticisation.
Current Research
As a member of work package 5 of the Global Reordering: Evolution through European Networks (GR:EEN) project, my research will be focused on aspects of EU energy governance and external relations . Firstly, this research will analyse the inter-play between energy re-politicisation, understandings of energy as a security issue and EU energy policy-making processes. Secondly, this work will assess EU competencies in its energy negotiations with Russia focusing on the ability of the EU to be influential.
Thesis: 'UK Energy Governance in the 21st Century: Unravelling the Ties that Bind' (submitted 4th October 2011)
The thesis works towards a better understanding of the political economy of energy in Europe, particularly in the UK. Renewed interest in energy security, alongside growing political commitment to climate change mitigation, has resulted in a high degree of energy repoliticisation and governance change. Claims have been made that these changes are of 'paradigmatic' proportions and the thesis tests this claim by closely following processes of change in UK energy governance from 2000 to 2010. It also provides contextual explanations of how and why change has been taking place.
Grants and Awards:Following her successful grant application to the ESRC, Caroline is the convenor of an international, inter-discilplinary, energy network called the Political Economy of Energy in Europe and Russia (PEEER). PEEER has organised two workshops, one conference, and has funded early career researchers to attend these meetings as well as to pursue overseas research.
For more information, including paper libraries, please visit: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/csgr/peeer
Books:
Kuzemko, Caroline, A. Belyi, A. Goldthau, and M. Keating (2012 forthcoming) Dynamics of Energy Governance in Europe and Russia. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Book Chapters:
Kuzemko, Caroline (2012 forthcoming) 'Energy Policy in Transition: Sustainability with Security', in C. Kuzemko, A. Belyi, A. Goldthau, and M. Keating (eds). Dynamics of Energy Governance in Europe and Russia. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Keating, Michael F., C. Kuzemko, A. Goldthau and A. Belyi (2012 forthcoming) 'Dynamics of Energy Governance in Europe and Russia: Introduction', in Kuzemko, C., A. Belyi, A. Goldthau and M. Keating (eds) Dynamics of Energy Governance in Europe and Russia. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Papers:
Belyi, Andrei and Kuzemko, Caroline (2007) 'Conflict of Values over the Regulation of Gas Markets: a View of Russo-British Relations', in Andrew Monaghan ed. The UK and Russia: A Troubled Relationship, for the ISEA, Defence Academy of Great Britain, available at: www.ndc.nato.int/research/series.php?icode=9
'Energy Governance in Transition: Finding New Direction': for BISA Conference, 2011 
BISA2011
'UK Energy Governance Change and the 'Russian Bear': 2003-2007': for ECPR Conference, Stockholm, September 2010 
ECPR 2010
'Energy, Ideas and Institutions: a Contextual Analysis of UK Energy Policy 1999-2008': for ISA Conference, New York, February 2009 
ISA Paper 09
'Energy, Norms and Ideas: Differing Dynamics Driving UK and Russian Energy Policy 1999-2008': for the 'Energy Challenges in Northern Europe' conference in Turku, Finland, November 2008 Turku Paper 08
'UK Perceptions of Energy Security', EU-UK Energy Security: Perceptions and Realities, Chatham House and ESMW, September 2011
'Questions of Energy and Structural Power', IPEG @ 40 Workshop, Warwick September 2011
'Energy Security: Meaning, Context and Change', Warwick-RSIS Conference, Singapore, 1-2 November 2009
'The Politics of Energy: UK Energy and the Competing Narratives of Change', PEEER workshop, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, September 2009
Engagements:Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), December 2009, member of Advisory Panel on on international energy strategy (DECC's 2050 Vision)
Module co-convenor, lecturer and Named Internal Examiner, 'Energy in Global Politics', The Energy MBA, Warwick Business School: Nov 2010 - Feb 2011; Nov 2011 - Feb 2012
Module convenor and lecturer, Energy in a Carbon Constrained World, for MA in Energy Policy, University of Exeter, February 2010, 2011 and 2012
Lecturer, 'Globalisation and Governance', Masters of Public Administration, Warwick Business School, April 2010
Tutor in 'World Politics' for first year undergraduates, PaIS, University of Warwick, 2008-2009
UK Energy Research Council (UKERC), advisor to the 'Summer Programme' 2010.
Active member of various groups including the network 'Energy Security in a Multipolar World' (ESMW).
Russian, German and basic French.
