1 DR. ANKE SCHMIDT-FELZMANN CONTACT DETAILS Department of Political Science Stockholm University Universitetsvägen 10F SE-106 91 Stockholm Sweden Phone: +46 (0) 8 16 3088 Email: anke.schmidtfelzmann@statsvet.su.se CURRENT POSITION: Postdoctoral Fellow, Swedish Research Council/Vetenskapsrådet (VR), Stockholm University. HIGHER EDUCATION: Ph.D., Politics, February 2011 College of Social Sciences Graduate School, University of Glasgow (UK) With or Without the EU? Understanding EU Member States Motivations for Dealing with Russia at the European or the National Level. Supervisors: Prof. Alasdair R. Young (now Georgia Tech, USA) and Prof. Stephen L. White Examiners: Prof. Graham Timmins (University of Stirling) and Prof. Maurizio Carbone (University of Glasgow) M.Sc., International and European Politics, December 2002 University of Edinburgh (UK) Diplomübersetzer (equiv. to M.A. in Translation Studies), October 2001 Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz in Germersheim (Germany) PUBLICATIONS: JOURNAL ARTICLES (peer reviewed) Schmidt-Felzmann, A. (2011) EU Member States' Energy Relations with Russia: Conflicting Approaches to Securing Natural Gas Supplies., Geopolitics, vol. 16 (3), July, pp. 574-599. Bosse, G. and Schmidt-Felzmann, A. (2011) Introduction The Geopolitics of Energy Supply in the Wider Europe and Beyond, Geopolitics. vol. 16 (3), July, pp. 479-485. Schmidt-Felzmann, A. (2008) All for One? EU Member States and the Union s Common Policy Towards the Russian Federation, Journal of Contemporary European Studies, vol. 16 (2), August, pp. 169-187. Schmidt-Felzmann, A. (2008) Editorial -The European Union's External Energy Policy, Journal of Contemporary European Research, vol. 4 (2), June, pp. 67-70. Bogutcaia, G., Bosse, G., Schmidt-Felzmann, A. (2006) 'Lost in Translation? Political Elites and the Interpretative Values Gap in European Neighbourhood Policies', Contemporary Politics, vol. 12 (2), June, pp. 117-137.
2 EDITED VOLUMES Bosse, G. and Schmidt-Felzmann, A. (Eds.) (2011) Special Issue The Geopolitics of Energy Supply in the Wider Europe and Beyond, Geopolitics, vol. 16 (3), July. Schmidt-Felzmann, A. (Ed.) (2008) Special Issue Energy Supply Security in the New Europe : Critical Perspectives on the European Union s External Energy Policy Journal of Contemporary European Research, vol. 4 (2), June, pp. 66-164. BOOK CHAPTER (in press, publication 2012) Schmidt-Felzmann, A. Conducting relations with a difficult neighbour. The European Union s struggle to influence Russian domestic politics in Noutcheva, G., Pomorska, K., Bosse, G. (Eds) Values versus Security? The Choice for the EU and Its Neighbours, Manchester University Press ( Europe in Change Series). OTHER Schmidt-Felzmann, A. (2001) Kultureller und politischer Nationalismus Unabhängigkeitsbestrebungen in Katalonien und Schottland ( Cultural and Political Nationalism The Quest for Independence in Catalonia and Scotland ), Publication No. 11, September, CELA and the Institute for Romance Studies, Germersheim/Rhein (Editors: Matthias Perl, Klaus Pörtl), ISBN 3-933367-06-9, 270pp. INVITED TALKS: Guest Speaker, The Current State of the EU s and Germany s Relations with the Russian Federation, 17 July 2011, Encounter Europe and Russia. An introduction to the cultural, political, financial and security issues shaping the EU and its relations to Russia, Summer European Academy 2011, Joint German-Russian Seminar, Europäische Akademie Otzenhausen and ASKO EUROPA Foundation, Saarbrücken, 10-20 July 2011 Keynote speaker Dealing with the Russian Federation: A Challenge for the EU and its Member States, EuroSim, a transatlantic EU Simulation of Trans-Atlantic Consortium for European Union Simulations and Studies (TACEUSS), Negotiation of the EU-Russia Agreement, 6 January 2010, Antwerp, Belgium. Keynote speaker Kaliningrad s Place in EU-Russia Relations, Session 2 Kaliningrad s Relations With the Outside World - Round Table Discussion Lessons Learned from EU Enlargement: The Case of Kaliningrad, Centre for Russian, Central and East European Studies (CRCEES), University of Glasgow, 23 October 2007. CONFERENCE PAPERS (selection): The (limited) Europeanisation of EU member states policies towards the Russian Federation., Panel: Europeanisation of Foreign Policy, 6th ECPR General Conference, 24-27 August 2011 University of Iceland, Reykjavik. With or Without the European Union? Understanding how EU member states engage with the Russian Federation., Panel: European Union: Integration and Transition of Political Authority, ISA International Conference, 16-19 March 2011, Montreal.
3 EU Member States' Energy Relations with Russia: Conflicting Approaches to Securing Natural Gas Supplies, University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES) Annual Conference: Europe at a Crossroads, 6-8 September 2010, Bruges. With or Without the EU? EU Member States' Relations with the Russian Federation, Panel XI.13 The EU in the post-soviet Space: Partnerships, Problems, Perspectives, ICCEES VIII World Congress 2010 Prospects for Wider Cooperation, 26-31 July 2010, Stockholm. EU-Russia Cooperation in the Field of Energy: Strategic Interests vs. Shared Values, Panel 4: EU Relations with its Neighbours, Workshop: Values vs. Security? The Future Choice for the EU and its Neighbours, 5-6 June 2008, University of Maastricht. Too Many Cooks Spoil the Borscht? The EU s and Member States Relations with Russia, Politics Department Seminar, 28 April 2008, University of Glasgow. Common or Conflicting Foreign Policies? Member States Struggle for Unity in their Relations with Russia, Panel VIII.3: The EU and Russia, GARNET Conference The European Union in International Affairs, 24-26 April 2008, Palais Egmont, Brussels. The EU s Common External Energy Policy - Combating Fragmentation in the Pursuit of Diversification, UACES/CRCEES workshop 'Security of Energy Supply in the New Europe: A Challenge for the EU's Neighbourhood Policy', Department of Politics, University of Glasgow, 19-20 September 2007. All for One? The EU s Common Foreign Policy Towards Russia, Russia and the EU - Panel 1, BASEES-UACES Network, University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES) Annual Conference: Exchanging Ideas on Europe, Portsmouth, 3-5 September 2007. The Principle of divide et impera in Russia s Foreign Policy Towards the EU., Panel Russia and the West Difficult Relations in a Changing Political Environment, British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES) Annual Conference, University of Cambridge, 31 March 2 April 2007. Too Many Cooks Spoil the Borscht? The Divergence of National Interests in EU Member States Policies Towards Russia, Panel The EU and its Eastern Neighbourhood: Visions and Interests in Conflict?, UACES Annual Conference: Exchanging Ideas on Europe, University of Limerick, 31 August 2 September 2006. Is Bigger Better? Strengths and Weaknesses of the Enlarged European Union in its Relations with the Russian Federation, Conference -Reflecting on a Wider Europe and Beyond: Norms, Rights and Interests, Central and East European International Studies Association (CEEISA), 4 th Convention, University of Tartu, 25-27 June 2006. The EU as a Normative Agent - Do Values Really Matter in EU-Russian Relations?, Panel III Outside-In I: The External Dimension of Transformation in Eastern Europe, Conference International Relations in Eastern Europe, Humboldt University Berlin, Working Group East European Societies in a comparative perspective, German Association of Political Sciences, 16-18 March 2006. Russia s Self-Exclusion from the EU s Neighbourhood Policy and Its Implications for the EU s Normative Agenda, Inclusion and Exclusion 7 th Annual International Postgraduate
4 Conference on Central and Eastern Europe, School of Slavonic & East European Studies, University College London, 16-18 February 2006. Alliance and Conflict in the EU s Common Foreign Policy: Individual Member States Interests and the EU s Russia Policy, The European Union as an International Actor Conference on the EU Foreign Policy: Challenges and Options for the Future Trans- European Policy Studies Association (TEPSA), Brussels, 17 November 2005. Lessons from Russia: Checkmate for the EU s Common Foreign Policy?, LSE/KCL European Foreign Policy Conference, London School of Economics, 1-2 July 2005. AWARDS: 2011-2013 Postdoctoral Fellowship, Vetenskapsrådet (Swedish Research Council), 24 months, (awarded May 2011). 2008-2009 FFWG Writing Up MAIN GRANT, Funds for Women Graduates, British Federation of Women Graduates. (awarded July 2008). 2006-2008 Editorial Assistantship PhD Scholarship (3 years, fees & maintenance), Journal POLITICS (awarded November 2005). 2007 UACES Scholarship, co-financed by University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES) and the European Commission (awarded December 2006). 2007 BASEES Fieldwork Scholarship, British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies, (awarded July 2007). 2003 Büro-Führungskräfte zu Internationalen Organisationen Award (4 months, June-September), BFIO, German Bureau seconding Leading Personnel to International Organisations), co-financed by German MFA and German Ministry for Employment, Bonn.. GRANTS FOR ORGANISATION OF ACADEMIC EVENTS Workshop: 'Security of Energy Supply in the New Europe' (September 2007): 1) UACES Workshop Grant (awarded Dec. 2006) 2) Centre for Russian, Central and East European Studies (CRCEES) funding, 3) Scottish Jean Monnet Centre of European Excellence funding and 4) Roberts Fund. Northern Political Studies Association Graduate Conference (May 2007): 1) Roberts Fund,2) Political Studies Association and3) journal POLITICS. TEACHING EXPERIENCE: MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY, Department of Politics. 2009-2011 Lecturer in International Relations, FT 3-year position (from Sept. 2009). COURSES TAUGHT Undergraduate (BA European Studies): E1004- Research and Writing, (Skills Training), 1st year E2004- Policy Domains Analyzing the European Policy Process, 2nd year EU Internal Gas Market Liberalisation (2009); EU Electricity Market Liberalisation (2009; 2010); The EU s Gas Supply Policy (2010); The EU s Oil Supply Policy (2010);
5 The European Neighbourhood Policy towards Ukraine (2009); The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (2009) E2005- Area Studies Poland, 2nd year EUS2005-International Relations Contemporary Issues & Actors, 2 nd year E3007- External Relations of the European Union, 3 rd year E3504 Practicalities of Policy-Making (Skills training) 3 rd year Postgraduate (MA European Studies; Track 1 International Relations ) M7002- International Relations. Conflict and Cooperation Tutor; Instructor: Foreign Policy Analysis (Skills Training) M7005- The EU s External Economic Policies Course Convenor, Lecturer & Tutor; Instructor: Insights into the practical world of policy-making. Writing a Policy Brief (Skills Training) Supervisor (January-June 2010 and 2011) E2902- BA Paper I (6,000 words, 2nd year), 22 Students E3902- BA Paper II (8,000 words, 3rd year), 15 Students M7900- MA theses (15,000 words), 7 Students 2008-2009 Graduate Teaching Assistant (PT), UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW, Department of Politics Politics 1B, Comparative Politics Methodology, China, Russia, European Union (1 st year undergraduate) Politics 2B International Politics - Theory, Actors, Issues and Problems (2 nd year undergraduate) 2008 Module Convenor, Lecturer and Tutor (temporary), UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING, Department of Politics, Summer Academic Programme: POL91A - Issues in International Relations (3 rd and 4 th year undergraduate) 2005-2006 Guest Lecturer, Teaching Assistant (temporary), UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH, Department of Politics PLIT10048 -Contemporary Russian Politics (MA honours course - 3 rd and 4 th year), Russian Foreign Policy section. FACULTY ROLES: 2010-2011 EuroSim Faculty Coordinator, Maastricht University. Selection, organisation and preparation of European Studies students participation in the annual EU simulation game of the Trans-Atlantic Consortium for European Union Simulations and Studies (TACEUSS). 2006-2008 Postgraduate Representative for PhD students in Politics, University of Glasgow. 2006-2008 Postgraduate Research Student Representative, Higher Degrees Committee, Faculty of Law, Business and Social Sciences, University of Glasgow. OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: 2006-2008 Editorial Assistant, PSA journal POLITICS (2 years 8 months), Department of Politics, University of Glasgow (published by Political Studies Association and Wiley-Blackwell).
6 2007 Visiting Researcher (April June), Research Division EU External Relations, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP, German Institute for International and Security Affairs), Berlin. 2005-2006 Project Administrator (8 months), Study Group The European Commission and the European Civil Service, based at University of Edinburgh (led by Professor John Peterson), Work Package IV - Institutions, CONSENT Constructing Europe Network of Excellence (European Union, 6th Framework Programme), Coordinator Prof. Wolfgang Wessels, University of Cologne. 2004-2005 Project Administrator (7 months), Study on the Framework of EU-US Relations (Project leader: Professor John Peterson) for European Commission Directorate General External Relations (Unit C1 USA, Canada), Tender OJ2004/S 83-070340, based at Department of Politics, University of Glasgow. 2003-2004 Stagiaire, European Commission, (5 months), Directorate General for External Relations, Unit E-2 Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Brussels. 2003 Visiting Researcher (June-September), Finnish Institute of International Affairs (UPI/FIIA), Helsinki. 2003 Intern (January-May), Permanent International Secretariat of the Council of Baltic Sea States (CBSS), Stockholm. 2002 Intern (October-December), State Chancellery, Land Schleswig-Holstein, Department of European Affairs, Kiel (Germany). 2002 Intern (May-June), Scottish Parliament, assistant to Labour MSP Rhoda Grant - Highlands & Islands (Rural Development), Edinburgh. ACADEMIC SERVICE: Workshop Co-Organiser, UACES/CRCEES Workshop 'Security of Energy Supply in the New Europe: A Challenge for the EU's Neighbourhood Policy' (with Valentina Feklyunina), Department of Politics, University of Glasgow, 19-20 September 2007. Conference Organiser, Northern Political Studies Association Graduate Conference, Department of Politics, University of Glasgow, 25 May 2007. The conference programme included 38 papers by presenters from 13 academic institutions in six countries. Panel Organiser, Co-operation or Confrontation? Eastern and Western Perspectives on EU-rope s Relations with Russia and the CIS, BASEES Annual Conference 2008, University of Cambridge, 29-31 March. Panel Organiser and Chair, EU and Russia flux lines: Between Attraction and Repulsion, ICCEES Regional European Congress, Berlin, 2-4 August 2007. Panel Organiser: 1) Russia and the West Difficult Relations in a Changing Political Environment; 2) New Old Russia? Traditions, Images and Perceptions in Russian Politics, BASEES Annual Conference 2007, University of Cambridge, 31 March-2 April. Panel Organiser, The EU and its Eastern Neighbourhood: Visions and Interests in Conflict?, UACES Annual Conference 2006, University of Limerick, 31 August 2 September 2006.
7 REVIEWER: Europe-Asia Studies Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics. Journal of Contemporary European Research Geopolitics European Science Foundation (workshop proposal referee) ISA IPE Section Best Dissertation Award 2012 (committee member) Stockholm, 21 September 2011