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Heidi Kjærnet

 
 

Heidi Kjærnet [Research Fellow]

Heidi  Kjærnet
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Pb 8159 Dep, 0033 Oslo
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C.J. Hambros plass 2 D

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Current research

Visiting Researcher at Program on Energy and Sustainable Development, Stanford University 2010-2011.

Working with Ph. D. thesis with the working title: "Petroleum, politics and power: The national oil companies of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan". The project analyses the relationship between state petroleum companies and their state owners in the three countries.

Engaged in the projects:   Flammable societies  ;  Russian energy research and innovation: Prospects for cooperation on renewables and efficiency  Afghanistan and regional instability: A risk  assessment   and RUSSCASP .

As a student scholar in the same department she wrote a master thesis on Azerbaijan's foreign policy strategy, focusing on economics and bilateral relations with Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union and the use of energy resources as a power resource in these relations for the Russia Studies Programme, University of Oslo, which she finished in May 2007.

Formal education
[2008]
PhD programme in Political Science, University of Tromsø
[2007]
Master in European and American studies, University of Oslo

Professional experience
[2011]
Visiting scholar at Econ Pöyry (RUSSCASP)
[2009-2010]
Visiting scholar at Fridtjof Nansens Institutt (RUSSCASP)
[2007-]
Research assistant/researcher/doctoral fellow at NUPI
[2006]
Intern, the Royal Norwegian Embassy, Azerbaijan

 

Publications [vis kronologisk]

Articles (in books and journals)
  • Kjærnet, Heidi (2012). National oil companies and the state,

    in A. Heinrich, and H. Pleines (eds): Challenges of the Caspian Resource Boom: Domestic Elites and Policy-making

     

    .Palgrave Macmillan.p. 191-204.This chapter surveys the national oil companies of three post-Soviet Caspian states – Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan – with a focus on the management strategies the governments have for their national oil companies. [url]
  • Kjærnet, Heidi (2012). Living under the bullet: Internal displacement in the Azerbaijani oil boom,

    in McNeish, John-Andrew and Owen Logan (eds.) Flammable societies. Studies on the socio-economics of oil and gas

    .London,Pluto Press.p. 156-175.This chapter focuses on how the community of approximately 600,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Azerbaijan relate to the country’s oil boom. [url]
  • Kjærnet, Heidi (2010). Svart gull, svart samvittighet? ,

    in Internasjonal Politikk 68:2010:2

    .Oslo,Universitetsforlaget.p. 295-303.This article in norwegian reviews Helge Ryggvik's "Til siste dråpe. Om oljens politiske økonomi"; Gudmund Skjeldal and Unni Berge's "Feber. Historia om norsk olje og gass" and Simen Sætre's "Petromania. En reise gjennom verdens rikeste oljeland". [url]
  • Kjærnet, Heidi (2010). Strategic Resources, Strategic Players: The Role of National versus International Oil Companies in Post-Soviet Eurasia,

    i Roger E. Kanet og Maria Raquel Freire (red.), Key Players and Regional Dynamics in Eurasia. The Return of the 'Great Game'

    .Palgrave Macmillan.p. 271-289.This chapter provides an account of the policy choices Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Russia have made with regard to balancing foreign involvement in petroleum development with national control of the region’s strategic resources. [url]
  • Kjærnet, Heidi (2010). At Arm's Length? Applied Social Science and its Sponsors,

    Journal of Academic Ethics, vol. 8, 1-9

    .Springer.The article deals with trust in applied social science research in the light of applied researchers’ increased dependence on project funding. [url]
  • Overland, Indra , Heidi Kjærnet, Andrea Kendall-Taylor (2010). The Resource Curse and Authoritarianism in the Caspian Petro-States ,

    in Overland, Indra , Heidi Kjærnet, Andrea Kendall-Taylor [eds.] Caspian Energy Politics: Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan

    .Abingdon,Routledge.p. 1-12. [url]
  • Kjærnet, Heidi (2010). Displacement in a Booming Economy: IDPs in Azerbaijan,

    in Overland, Indra , Heidi Kjærnet, Andrea Kendall-Taylor [eds.] Caspian Energy Politics: Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan

    .Abingdon,Routledge.p. 60-77. [url]
  • Torjesen, Stina , Indra Overland, Heidi Kjærnet (2010). China and Russia: Partners or Firewalls for the Caspian Petro-States?,

    in Overland, Indra , Heidi Kjærnet, Andrea Kendall-Taylor [eds.] Caspian Energy Politics: Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan

    . Abingdon,Routledge.p. 93-100. [url]
  • Overland, Indra , Heidi Kjærnet, Andrea Kendall-Taylor (2010). The Logic of Authoritarianism in the Caspian Petro-States,

    in Overland, Indra , Heidi Kjærnet, Andrea Kendall-Taylor [eds.] Caspian Energy Politics: Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan.

    .Abingdon,Routledge.p. 178-184. [url]
  • Kjærnet, Heidi (2010). Azerbaijani–Russian Relations and the Economization of Foreign Policy,

    in Overland, Indra , Heidi Kjærnet, Andrea Kendall-Taylor [eds.] Caspian Energy Politics: Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan

    .Abingdon,Routledge.p. 150-161. [url]
  • Kjærnet, Heidi (2009). The Energy Dimension of Azerbaijani-Russian Relations: Maneuvering for Nagorno-Karabakh,

    In Russian Analytical Digest, no 56 (Special Issue: Russia's Energy Relations to Its Caspian Neighbors )

    .p. 2-5. [url]
  • Kjærnet, Heidi , Indra Overland (2008). Doing business in Uzbekistan,

    OGEL – Oil, Gas and Energy Law, vol. 6, no. 3.

    .Voorburg,OGEL - Global Energy Law & Regulation Portal .This paper provides a short but comprehensive survey of different aspects of doing business in Uzbekistan. [url]
  • Kjærnet, Heidi , Indra Overland (2008). The Trajectory of Reform in Turkmenistan: Implications for Foreign Oil Companies,

    OGEL – Oil, Gas and Energy Law, vol. 6, no. 3

    .Voorburg,OGEL - Global Energy Law & Regulation Portal.p. . [url]
  • Kjærnet, Heidi , Stina Torjesen, Dosym Satpaev (2008). Big Business and High-level Politics in Kazakhstan: An Everlasting Symbiosis?,

    in China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly, vol. 6, no. 1

    .Bosten/Hong Kong,Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program.p. 95-107.This article argues that there is a symbiosis between elite business groups and top politicians in Kazakhstan. It suggests a typology for the different kinds of symbiotic relationships that exist and highlights the activities of a number ofprominent figures in Kazakhstani politics and economy. [Full-text version] [url]
  • Kjærnet, Heidi (2007). En smak av egen medisin: Aserbajdsjans russlandsstrategi,

    Nordisk Østforum, vol. 21, nr. 4

    .Oslo,Norsk Utenrikspolitisk Institutt.p. 457-574.Artikkelen analyserer Aserbajdsjans russlandsstrategi med særlig henblikk på hvordan Aserbajdsjans nyvunne energiuavhengighet påvirker forholdet til Russland. [url]

Books and reports

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