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Faculty of Management, Economics and Social SciencesCETEUS

Dr. Mirja Schröder

Mirja Schröder is Vice-Director of CETEUS. As senior researcher she is part of the research project TRIANGLE - EU/German-Turkish Relations beyond Conflicts, funded by Stiftung Mercator. Prior to that she worked as a Research Associate and PhD Candidate at the Jean Monnet Chair and at CETEUS as project- and financial manager of several research and teaching projects dealing with different aspects of EU integration. 

She successfully completed her PhD in September 2018. In her doctoral thesis she investigated the external energy dimension of the European Union from a critical geopolitics perspective.

She studied economics and political science at the University of Cologne and Sciences Po Lyon. In 2015 she spent a research stay at Berkeley University, California. From 2016 to 2017 she received a PhD fellowship from the Fritz Thyssen Foundation.

Projects

efördert von der Europäischen Kommission im 7. Forschungsrahmenprogamm

2012-2015 // Researcher

 EU GLOBAL - Transatlantic Perspectives in a Changing Global Context: Multilateralism Through Regionalism (FP7, Marie Curie IRSES)
2012-2015 // Researche

Key aspects of research

  • European energy policy, especially the external dimension of EU energy security
  • Geopolitics
  • EU-Turkey Relations
  • Franco-German Relations

Teaching

Winter term 2014/15: Bachelor (1426): Einführung in die Europäische Energiepolitik

Summer term 2014: Master (1412 PROTEUS): The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership

Research Project The Political System of the EU - "PROTEUS: The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership"

Research Project The Political System of the EU - "PROTEUS: The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership"

Winter term 2013/14: Bachelor (1491) Deutschland und Frankreich in der EU: Konsens, Kontroversen, Kompromisse

Summer term 2013: Master (1418 PROTEUS): The political system of the EU: Strategic and conceptual approaches

Advanced Seminar: The Political System of the EU: Strategic and Conceptual Approaches (PROTEUS 1418) - W. Wessels / E. Hoffmann / M. Schröder

Publications

  • Schröder, Mirja (2019): EU Gas Supply Security. A Geopolitical Vision of the Southern Gas Corridor. Baden-Baden.
  • Schröder, Mirja/ Tekin, Funda (2019): Institutional Triangle EU/Turkey-Germany: Change and Continuity, in: Turhan, Ebru (ed.), Relations between Turkey and Germany Reconsidered: New Dimensions, New Challenges, 31-57. Baden-Baden.
  • Schröder, Mirja/ Bettzüge, Marc Oliver/ Wessels, Wolfgang (eds.) (2017): Turkey as an energy hub? Contributions on Turkey's Role in EU Energy Supply. Baden-Baden. 
  • Schröder, Mirja (2017): The discursive construction of Turkey's role for European energy security: a critical geopolitical perspective. FEUTURE PhD Online Paper No. 1, 03/2017.
  • Colantoni, Lorenzo/ Korkmaz, Dicle/ Sartori, Nicolò/ Schröder, Mirja/ Sever-Mehmetoglu/ Yilmaz, Suhnaz (2017): Energy and Climate Strategies, Interests and Priorities of the EU and Turkey, FEUTURE Online Paper No. 2, 03/2017. 
  • Schröder, Mirja (2015): Europe's Energy Security: What role for Turkey? An evaluation of EU's external energy policy in the region, Blickwechsel working paper, 10/2015.
  • Schröder, Mirja (2015): Turkey's Role in the Southern Gas Corridor. A geopolitical evaluation of EU and US energy strategies in the region, EU-GLOBAL working paper, 04/2015.
  • Schröder, Mirja (2013): 50 Jahre deutsch-französische Beziehungen – eine Bestandsaufnahme, Literaturbesprechung, in: integration 4/2013, 333-339.
  • Schröder, Mirja (2012): Saving the Euro: big ambition, flawed foundations?, in: Fritz Thyssen Stiftung (ed.), Which Way Forward? Present Challenges, Strategic Choices and Future Perspectives of the EU, Hildesheim, 2013, 39-44. ISBN: 9783487148311
  • Schröder, Mirja (2012): What role for Franco-German leadership in an EU in crisis? in: Fritz Thyssen Stiftung (ed.), European leadership in challenging times - academia & politics in dialogue, 46-49. Hildesheim. ISBN: 9783487148311
  • Schröder, Mirja (2011): Konzeptionelle Konvergenzen - Der Kampf gegen die globale Finanz-, Wirtschafts- und Eurokrise, in: Dokumente/Documents 01/2011, 13-16.

Awards

2013: University Award for Outstanding teaching for the teaching project PROTEUS

2012: Ehrhardt-Imelmann-Award, University of Cologne, for the diploma thesis on: 'Ein Gouvernement Economique für die Europäische Wirtschafts- und Währungsunion – konzeptionelle Konvergenzen in Deutschland und Frankreich angesichts der globalen Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise?’