Dr. Andreas Raspotnik is a Senior Researcher at the High North Center for Business and Governance, Nord University (Bodø, Norway), where he currently manages the three-year project AlaskaNor (2018-2021). The project aims to examine the blue economy potential of Alaska and North Norway and potential areas of collaboration between these two Arctic regions.
Further, Andreas is a Senior Fellow and Leadership Group member at The Arctic Institute – Center for Circumpolar Security Studies, based in Washington, DC and a Senior Fellow at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute (FNI) in Oslo, Norway. Previously, Andreas was an EXACT Research Fellow at the University of Cologne and the Trans European Policy Studies Association in Brussels, Belgium (2011-2013). He has held two Guest Researcher positions at FNI (2014 and 2015) and a Visiting Researcher position at the IES in 2014-2015, funded by the Berkeley-Cologne Dissertation and Pre-Dissertation Research Fellowships. He further worked as Parliamentary Assistant for an Austrian Member of the European Parliament (2010).
His research focuses on the European Union’s Arctic interests and policies, international law of the sea and general Arctic politics, and smart developments in and for the Arctic. He has authored the book The European Union and the Geopolitics of the Arctic (Edward Elgar, 2018). Other work has also appeared in Geopolitics, Ocean Development & International Law, Marine Policy or European Foreign Affairs Review. Most recently, Andreas has co-authored several policy briefs on the EU’s Arctic policy-steps, as for example with the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) or the College of Europe Policy Brief series. He also regularly writes for High North News.
Andreas received his jointly-awarded PhD in Political Science from the University of Cologne, Germany, and the University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom in October 2016. He also holds a Master of Laws in International Law of the Sea from the University of Tromsø, Norway and a Master of Arts in Political Science from the University of Vienna, Austria. He further received a Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of Vienna.
