About

Kacper Szulecki is senior researcher at the Department of Political Science, University of Oslo. He was previously Dahrendorf Postdoctoral Fellow at the Hertie School, and a Guest Researcher at the Department of Climate Policy of the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW), and a visiting fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (2017) and at the Department of History and Civilization (2019), both EUI Florence. Kacper is a political scientist and sociologist. He holds a doctoral degree in the social sciences from the University of Konstanz (summa cum laude, 2012) and a master’s degree in international relations and transnational environmental governance from the VU University Amsterdam (cum laude, 2008). He studied at the Universities in Warsaw and Oslo, as well as the Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities. He took part in post-graduate seminars at the ETH Zurich, Peace Research Institute in Oslo and the National University – Kyiv Mohyla Academy in Ukraine. Before joining the Hertie School, he was a researcher at the Cluster of Excellence “Cultural Foundations of Integration” in Konstanz (2008-2012), and conducted a research internship at the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) in Amsterdam (2008). He is also board director of the Environmental Studies and Policy Research Institute, a research network based in Poland; as well as an editor of the on-line weekly “Kultura Liberalna”.

Research Interests

Europe (Central and Eastern), Civil Society, Contentious Politics, Environmental Policy, European Politics, Foreign Policy, Governance, Green Politics, Human Rights, International Relations, Migration, Policy Analysis, Security, Social Movements, Political Sociology, Qualitative, Memory, NGOs, Protests, Energy, Energy Policy

Current/Upcoming Events

Kacper has not yet registered for any ECPR events.

Standing Groups and Research Networks

• Energy Politics, Policy, and Governance
• Environmental Politics