Dr. Andreas Raspotnik

Dr. Andreas Raspotnik is a Senior Fellow and Leadership Group member at The Arctic Institute. Andreas’ primary affiliation is as a Senior Fellow at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute (FNI) in Oslo – Norway’s leading research institute on Arctic international affairs. He is also a Senior Researcher at the High North Center, Nord University in Bodø, a Senior Fellow at the Institute of European Studies, University of California, Berkeley and a Global Fellow at the Global Europe Program of the Wilson Center in Washington, DC, where he also held a position as Austrian Marshall Plan Fellow from September 2021 to May 2022.

His research focuses on European Union Arctic policies, maritime transportation, international law, and new technologies’ introduction to the North. He received his jointly-awarded PhD in Political Science from the University of Cologne, Germany, and the University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom in October 2016. His book on The European Union and the Geopolitics of the Arctic was published by Edward Elgar in January 2018.

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 also held two Guest Researcher positions at FNI (2014 and 2015) and a Visiting Researcher position at the Institute of European Studies, University of California, Berkeley (2014/2015). He further worked as Parliamentary Assistant for an Austrian Member of the European Parliament (2010).

Andreas has published in a number of peer reviewed journals. Most recently, he wrote Forced to Look East? Russia, China, India, and the Future of Arctic Governance (2022, together with Nima Khorrami), The End of an Exceptional History: Re-Thinking the EU-Russia Arctic Relationship (2022, together with Andreas Østhagen), A Global Arctic Order Under Threat? An Agenda for American Leadership in the North (2021, together with Andreas Østhagen) or The presence of the EU’s Arctic future (2021).

Andreas 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. In 2020, he also spoke with TAI’s Podcast Team on his experiences as a young researcher in the EU-Arctic world.