Prof. Dr. Margarita
M. Balmaceda

Gastwissenschaftlerin

 

Raum 3520 / Telefon 0421-218-69590
balmaced@fas.harvard.edu

 

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Professor of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University

Main research interests

International Political Economy
Resource Politics
Political Economy of the post-Soviet region
Political economy of de-facto states

Current research project

"Coal, Steel, and Conflict in the former USSR: Technology, Bordering, and Climate Change"
 
Education

Princeton University,  Ph.D. in Political Science,
Princeton University,  M.A. in Political Science
Johns Hopkins University, B.A. in International Studies, January
Harvard University, (Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute) Post-doctoral training in Ukrainian Studies,
 
Selected Publications

Russian Energy Chains: the Remaking of  Technopolitics from Siberia to Ukraine to the European Union (New York: Columbia University Press, 2021)

Living the High Life in Minsk: Russian Energy Rents, Domestic Populism and Belarus’ Impending Crisis (Budapest and New York: Central European University Press, 2014)

The Politics of Energy Dependency: Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania Between Domestic Oligarchs and Russian Pressure (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013, ppk 2015).

Energy Dependency, Politics and Corruption in the Former Soviet Union: Russia’s Power, Oligarch’s Profits and Ukraine’s Missing Energy Policy, 1995-2006 (London and New York: Routledge, 2008). Reprinted in paperback: (London and New York: Routledge, 2012).

Co-editor, Europa Unter Spannung: Energiepolitik Zwischen Ost und West (Energy Politics Between East and West) (Berlin: Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, 2004) (382 p.) Also published as special issue of Osteuropa (Berlin), Vol. 54 No. 9-10 (2004).

Co-Editor, (with James Clem and Lisbeth Tarlow), Independent Belarus: Domestic Determinants, Regional Dynamics and Implications for the West (Cambridge: HURI/Davis Center for Russian Studies: distributed by Harvard U. Press, 2002)

Editor, On the Edge: The Ukrainian-Central European-Russian Security Triangle (Budapest: Central European University Press, 2000)
 
Concurrent affiliations: 

Associate, Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University
Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University
Partner, Finnish Center of Excellence in Russian Studies – Choices of Russian Modernisation