Prof. Dr. Margarita M. Balmaceda

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsForeign Policy and International Systems
KeywordsEnergy, Politics, Technology, Ukraine, Russia
Honours and awards

2021: Researcher of the Year, School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University

2016: Elected as Full Member, Taras Schevchenko Scientific Society of the USA (NTShA), November 2016

2015: Book "Living the High Life in Minsk" awarded prize of Best Foreign Book on Belarus, International Congress of Belarusian Studies (Kaunas, 2015)

2015: University-wide Researcher of the Year, Seton Hall University

2014: Book "The Politics of Energy Dependency" awarded as “Outstanding Academic Title” by journal Choice

Current contact address

CountryUnited States of America
CitySouth Orange
InstitutionSeton Hall University
InstituteSchool of Diplomacy and International Relations

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Reimund SeidelmannInstitut für Politikwissenschaft, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Gießen
Dr. Sabine FischerDeutsches Institut für Internationale Politik und Sicherheit, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP) Deutsches Institut für Internationale Politik und Sicherheit, Berlin
Prof. Dr. Bärbel FriedrichAlfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg, Stiftung Alfried Krupp Kolleg Greifswald, Greifswald
Prof. Dr. Heiko PleinesForschungsstelle Osteuropa, Universität Bremen, Bremen
Prof. Dr. Susanne SchattenbergForschungsstelle Osteuropa, Universität Bremen, Bremen
Start of initial sponsorship01/01/2005

Programme(s)

2004Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme

Publications (partial selection)

2014Margarita M. Balmaceda: Living the High Life in Minsk: Russian Energy Rents, Domestic Populism and Belarus’ Impending Crisis. Central European University Press, 2014
2013Margarita M. Balmaceda: Privatization and Elite Defection in De Facto States: the Case of Transnistria, 1991-2012. In: Communist and Post- Communist Studies, 2013, 445-454
2013Margarita M. Balmaceda: The Politics of Energy Dependency: Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania Between Domestic Oligarchs and Russian Pressure . University of Toronto Press, 2013
2011Margarita M. Balmaceda: Russia and the Eastern European Energy Corridor (in Finnish). In: Finnish Journal of Russian and Eastern European Studies , 2011, 1-22
2011Margarita M. Balmaceda: Russia’s Central and Eastern European Energy Transit Corridor: Ukraine and Belarus. In: Pami Aalto Russia’s Energy Policies: National, Interregional and Global Dimensions. Edward Elgar, 2011. 136-155
2009Margarita M. Balmaceda: The Energy Policy of Belarus. In: Sabine Fischer, Belarus and the EU—Ways Ahead. Institute for Security Studies of the EU, 2009.
2008Margarita M. Balmaceda: Corruption, Intermediary Companies, and Energy Security: Lessons of Lithuania for the Broader Central-East European Region. In: Problems of Post-Communism, 2008, 16-28
2008Margarita M. Balmaceda: Energy security remains elusive and opaque. In: OSCE Review , 2008, 1-3
2007Margarita M. Balmaceda: Enerhiia kontrrevoliutsii (Energy for the counter-revolution, in Ukrainian). In: Krytyka (Kiev), 2007, n/a-n/a
2006Margarita M. Balmaceda: Belarus: oil, gas, transit pipelines and Russian foreign energy policy . Global Market Briefings, 2006
2006Margarita M. Balmaceda: Russian Energy Companies in the New Eastern Europe: the Cases of Ukraine and Belarus. In: Andreas Wenger, Jeronim Perovic, and Robert Orttung, Russian Business Power: The Role of Russian Business in Foreign and Security Policy. Routledge, 2006. 67-87
2005Margarita M. Balmaceda: Russische Unternehmer und die Neue Ukraine. In: Russlandanalyse, 2005, n/a-n/a
2004Margarita M. Balmaceda: 'Der Weg in die Abhängigkeit: Ostmitteleuropa am Energietropf der UdSSR¿ . In: Osteuropa, 2004,
2004Margarita M. Balmaceda, Agathe Gebert, Volker Weichsel and Manfred Sapper (Eds.): Europa Unter Spannung: Energiepolitik Zwischen Ost und West . Osteuropa/DGO, 2004
2004Margarita M. Balmaceda: Ukraine¿s Persisting Energy Crisis. In: Problems of Post-Communism , 2004, 40-50
2002Margarita M. Balmaceda, James Clem and Lisbeth Tarlow (Eds.): Independent Belarus: Domestic Determinants, Regional Dynamics and Implications for the West . HURI/Davis Center for Russian Studies: distributed by Harvard University Press, 2002
2000Margarita M. Balmaceda (Ed.): On the Edge: the Ukrainian-Central European-Russian Security Triangle . Central European University Press, 2000
Margarita M. Balmaceda: 'Explaining the Management of Energy Dependency in Ukraine: Possibilities and Limits of a Domestic-Centered Perspective,' . In: Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung (MZES) Arbeitspapiere/Working Papers No. 79 , 0