Prof. Dr. Andreas Goldthau

andreas.goldthau@uni-erfurt.de

Prof. Dr. Andreas Goldthau

Research Area

Global Public Policy

Short Biography

Andreas C. Goldthau is Director of the Willy Brandt School of Public Policy at the University of Erfurt where he holds the Franz Haniel Chair for Public Policy at the Faculty of Economics, Law and Social Sciences. Before joining the Brandt School he served as Research Group Lead on the Energy Transition in the Global South at the Research Institute for Sustainability – Helmholtz Center Potsdam (RIFS), as Professor in International Relations at Royal Holloway College, University of London and as Professor at Central European University's School of Public Policy in Budapest. He was Marie Curie Senior Fellow with the Geopolitics of Energy Project at Harvard Kennedy School and Adjunct Professor with John Hopkins' MSc program in energy policy and climate. He also held postdoctoral appointments at the Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, the RAND Corporation and the German Institute for International and Security Affairs. Professor Goldthau is non-resident fellow with the Payne Institute at the Colorado School of Mines, the Global Public Policy Institute and the German Council on Foreign Relations, and a Visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges.

Professor's Goldthau's academic interests lie in energy security, energy geoeconomics and the political economy of the clean transition. His publications include The Politics of Shale Gas in Eastern Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2018), the Handbook of the International Political Economy of Energy and Natural Resources (Edward Elgar, 2018), Energy Union. Europe's new Liberal Mercantilism? (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), A Liberal Actor in a Realist World: The EU Regulatory State and the Global Political Economy of Energy (Oxford University Press, 2015), The Global Energy Challenge: Environment, Development and Security (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), the Wiley Handbook on Global Energy Policy (Wiley Blackwell, 2013), Dynamics of Energy Governance in Europe and Russia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), Global Energy Governance: The New Rules of the Game (Brookings Press, 2010), Imported Oil and US National Security (RAND, 2009) and OPEC (Hanser, 2009).

Professor Goldthau serves on the editorial boards of the European Journal of International Relations, Global Policy, Energy Policy, Contemporary Politics and Energy Research in Social Science, and sits on the steering committees of leading academic associations.

Research

Research Group Security and Capitalism / Forschungsgruppe Sicherheitskapitalismus 

Geopolitics of Energy and Industrial Transformation, Research Institute for Sustainability – Helmholtz Center Potsdam

 

  • German Association for Political Science (DVPW), German Economic Association (Verein für Socialpolitik), International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE), International Political Science Association (IPSA), International Studies Association (ISA), Toenissteiner Kreis
  • Contemporary Politics, Editorial Board member
  • Global Policy journal (Wiley Blackwell), Editorial Board member 
  • Energy Policy journal (Elsevier), International Advisory Board member
  • Energy Research and Social Science Journal (Elsevier), Editorial Board member
  • European Journal of International Relations (Sage), Editorial Board member

 

Publications

Book
Andreas Goldthau. (2018). The Politics of Shale Gas in Eastern Europe. In Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316875018
Caroline Kuzemko, Michael F. Keating, & Goldthau, A. C.. (2015). The Global Energy Challenge. Environment, Development and Security. In Palgrave Macmillan.
Andreas Goldthau, & Nick Sitter. (2015). A Liberal Actor in a Realist World. In Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198719595.001.0001
Goldthau, A. C., & Jan Martin Witte. (2009). Die OPEC: Macht und Ohnmacht des Öl-Kartells. In Hanser.
Book chapter
Nopenyo Dabla, & Goldthau, A. C.. (2024). Clean energy services: universal access as enabler for development?. In he Environment in Global Sustainability Governance. Perceptions, Actors, Innovations.
Goldthau, A. C. (2024). The Race for Clean Transition Materials and EU Geoeconomic Statecraft. In Geopolitics and Economic Statecraft in the European Union.
Goldthau, A. C., & Nick Sitter. (2022). Oil and Gas. In The Oxford Handbook of International Political Economy. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198793519.013.32
Goldthau, A. C., & Llewellyn Hughes. (2022). International relations and oil: towards a networked power framework of analysis. In Handbook on Oil and International Relations. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839107559.00029
Goldthau, A. C. (2021). Widening the EU’s Geoeconomic and Regulatory Approach to Climate Policy. In The EU and Climate Security: Toward Ecological Diplomacy.
Goldthau, A. C. (2021). Unconventional energy in Europe. Policy issues, impact and prospects’. In The Global Impact of the Shale Revolution.
Goldthau, A. C., Laima Eicke, & Silvia Weko. (2020). The Global Energy Transition and the Global South. In The Geopolitics of the Global Energy Transition. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39066-2_14
Goldthau, A. C., & Nick Sitter. (2018). Regulatory or Market Power Europe? EU Leadership Models for International Energy Governance. In New Political Economy of Energy in Europe: Power to Project, Power to Adapt. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93360-3_2
Goldthau, A. C., & Nick Sitter. (2018). Conceptualizing the energy nexus of global public policy and international political economy. In Handbook of the International Political Economy of Energy and Natural Resources. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781783475636.00009
Caroline Kuzemko, Michael F. Keating, & Goldthau, A. C.. (2018). Nexus-thinking in international political economy: what energy and natural resource scholarship can offer international political economy. In Handbook of the International Political Economy of Energy and Natural Resources. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781783475636.00007
Goldthau, A. C. (2018). Energiepolitik. In Staatslexikon der Görres-Gesellschaft.
Svein S. Andersen, Goldthau, A. C., & Nick Sitter. (2017). An Odd Pro-Market Trio: Germany, the UK and Norway. In Energy Union. Europe’s new Liberal Mercantilism?. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59104-3_11
Svein S. Andersen, Goldthau, A. C., & Nick Sitter. (2017). From Low to High Politics? The EU’s Regulatory and Economic Power. In Energy Union. Europe’s new Liberal Mercantilism?. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59104-3_2
Tim Boersma, & Goldthau, A. C.. (2016). Wither the EU’s Market Making Project in Energy: From Liberalization to Securitization?. In Energy Union. Europe’s new Liberal Mercantilism?. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59104-3_6
Goldthau, A. C., Dag Harald Claes, & David Livingston. (2016). Saudi Arabia: Harnessing the oil market. In Connectivity Wars. Why migration, finance and trade are the geo-economic battlegrounds of the future.
Svein S. Andersen, Goldthau, A. C., & Nick Sitter. (2016). The EU Regulatory State, Commission Leadership and External Energy Governance. In EU Leadership in Energy and Environmental Governance. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137502766_3
Goldthau, A. C. (2015). The Russian energy outlook. In Too Much Energy? Asia at 2030.
Goldthau, A. C. (2013). Conclusion: Global Energy Policy: Findings and New Research Agendas. In The Handbook of Global Energy Policy. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118326275.oth
Goldthau, A. C. (2013). Introduction: Key Dimensions of Global Energy Policy. In The Handbook of Global Energy Policy. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118326275.ch0
Matthew Hulbert, & Goldthau, A. C.. (2013). Natural Gas Going Global? Potential and Pitfalls. In The Handbook of Global Energy Policy. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118326275.ch6
Goldthau, A. C., Aleh Cherp, Adeola Adenikinju, Larry Hughes, Jaap Jansen, Jessica Jewell, … Sergey Vakulenko. (2012). Energy and security. In The Global Energy Assessment: Toward a More Sustainable Future.
Goldthau, A. C. (2012). Challenges in Global Oil Governance. In Handbook of Oil Politics. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203851012
Goldthau, A. C., Michael F. Keating, Caroline Kuzemko, & Andrei V. Belyi. (2012). Afterword: Findings and Further Avenues of Inquiry. In Dynamics of Energy Governance in Europe and Russia. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230370944_15
Goldthau, A. C. (2012). Emerging Governance Challenges for Eurasian Gas Markets after the Shale Gas Revolution. In Dynamics of Energy Governance in Europe and Russia. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230370944_11
Michael F. Keating, Caroline Kuzemko, Andrei V. Belyi, & Goldthau, A. C.. (2012). Introduction: Bringing Energy into International Political Economy. In Dynamics of Energy Governance in Europe and Russia. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230370944_1
Goldthau, A. C. (2010). The Public Policy Dimension of Energy Security. In The Routledge Handbook of Energy Security. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203834602
Goldthau, A. C., Wade Hoxtell, & Jan Martin Witte. (2010). Global energy governance: The way forward. In Global Energy Governance. The new rules of the game.
Goldthau, A. C., & Jan Martin Witte. (2010). The role of rules and institutions in global energy: an introduction. In Global Energy Governance. The new rules of the game.
Goldthau, A. C. (2010). ‘Energy diplomacy’ in trade and investment of oil and gas. In Global Energy Governance. The new rules of the game.
Goldthau, A. C. (2008). Ein Gaskartell unter russischer Führung?. In Jahrbuch Internationale Politik: Weltverträgliche Energiesicherheitspolitik.
Goldthau, A. C., & Sebastian Eckardt. (2007). Reforming into growth or growing into reform? A critical note on the Post-Washington Consensus. In Theorizing Social Change in Post-Soviet Countries.
Goldthau, A. C. (2004). Labor mobility, adjustment and economic growth. Some reflections on CEE emerging economies. In The challenge of mobility in the Baltic Sea region.
Journal article
Goldthau, A. C., Rainer Quitzow, & Laima Eicke. (2025). The geoeconomics of hydrogen industrial policy. Oxford Energy Forum.
Quitzow, R., Margarita Balmaceda, & Andreas Goldthau. (2025). The nexus of geopolitics, decarbonization, and food security gives rise to distinct challenges across fertilizer supply chains. One Earth. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2024.12.009
Almudena Nunez, Katherine Caro, & Andreas C Goldthau. (2024). A sustainability and governance index for assessing the EU’s green hydrogen import options. Environmental Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad53e5
Maria Apergi, Laima Eicke, Andreas Goldthau, Mustafa Hashem, Sebastián Huneeus, Renato Lima de Oliveira, … Konstantin Veit. (2024). An energy justice index for the energy transition in the global South. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2023.114238
Andreas C. Goldthau, Joern Richert, & Stephan Stetter. (2024). Leviathan Awakens: Gas Finds, Energy Governance, and the Emergence of the Eastern Mediterranean as a Geopolitical Region. Review of Policy Research. https://doi.org/10.1111/ropr.12387
Laima Eicke, Maria Apergi, Andreas Goldthau, Jude Kurniawan, Esther Schuch, & Silvia Weko. (2023). Resource exporter or resource champion? Leverage points and transition pathways for the Chilean energy sector. Energy for Sustainable Development. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esd.2023.101257
Juergen Braunstein, Andreas C. Goldthau, & Konstantin Veit. (2023). Does climate action bring peace? Assessing the geopolitics of renewables using global investment data. npj Climate Action. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44168-023-00045-6
Andreas Goldthau, & Simone Tagliapietra. (2022). Energy crisis: five questions that must be answered in 2023. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-04467-w
J.H. Kurniawan, M. Apergi, L. Eicke, A. Lazurko, E. Nordemann, E. Schuch, … Goldthau, A. C.. (2022). Towards participatory cross-impact balance analysis: Leveraging morphological analysis for data collection in energy transition scenario workshops. Energy Research & Social Science. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2022.102815
Goldthau, A. C., & Nick Sitter. (2022). Whither the Liberal European Union Energy Model? The Public Policy Consequences of Russia’s Weaponization of Energy. EconPolForum.
Silvia Weko, & Andreas Goldthau. (2022). Bridging the low-carbon technology gap? Assessing energy initiatives for the Global South. Energy Policy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2022.113192
Goldthau, A. C. (2021). The tricky geoeconomics of going low carbon. Joule. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joule.2021.11.012
Andreas Goldthau, & Nick Sitter. (2021). Horses for courses. The roles of IPE and Global Public Policy in global energy research. Policy and Society. https://doi.org/10.1080/14494035.2020.1864100
Laima Eicke, & Andreas Goldthau. (2021). Are we at risk of an uneven low-carbon transition? Assessing evidence from a mixed-method elite study. Environmental Science & Policy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2021.07.009
Llewelyn Hughes, & Goldthau, A. C.. (2021). Saudi on the Rhine? Explaining the emergence of private governance in the global oil market. Review of International Political Economy. https://doi.org/10.1080/09692290.2020.1748683
Caroline Kuzemko, Michael Bradshaw, Gavin Bridge, Jessica Jewell, Indra Overland, Daniel Scholten, … Goldthau, A. C.. (2020). Covid-19 and the politics of sustainable energy transitions. Energy Research & Social Science. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2020.101685
Llewelyn Hughes, & Goldthau, A. C.. (2020). Protect global supply chains for low-carbon technologies. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02499-8
Sovacool, B., Noam Bergman, Debbie Hopkins, Kirsten EH Jenkins, Sabine Hielscher, Brent Brossmann, & Goldthau, A. C.. (2020). Imagining sustainable energy and mobility transitions: Valence, temporality, and radicalism in 38 visions of a low-carbon future. Social Studies of Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306312720915283
Morgan Bazilian, Bradshaw, M., Johannes Gabriel, Goldthau, A. C., & Kirsten Westphal. (2020). Four scenarios of the energy transition: Drivers, consequences, and implications for geopolitics. WIREs Climate Change. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.625
Andreas Goldthau, & Nick Sitter. (2020). Power, authority and security: the EU’s Russian gas dilemma. Journal of European Integration. https://doi.org/10.1080/07036337.2019.1708341
Goldthau, A. C., & Kirsten Westphal. (2020). Supernetze und Energiegiganten. Im globalen Ringen um Macht und Ressourcen droht Europa ins Abseits zu geraten. Internationale Politik.
Rainer Quitzow, Sonja Thielges, Goldthau, A. C., Sebastian Helgenberger, & Grace Mbungu. (2019). Advancing a global transition to clean energy – the role of international cooperation. Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal. https://doi.org/10.5018/economics-ejournal.ja.2019-48
Morgan Bazilian, Michael Bradshaw, Kirsten Westphal, & Goldthau, A. C.. (2019). How the energy transition will reshape geopolitics. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-01312-5
Goldthau, A. C., & Kirsten Westphal. (2019). Why the Global Energy Transition Does Not Mean the End of the Petrostate. Global Policy. https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.12649
Goldthau, A. C. (2017). The G20 must govern the shift to low-carbon energy. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/546203a
Goldthau, A. C., & Benjamin K. Sovacool. (2016). Energy Technology, Politics, and Interpretative Frames: Shale Gas Fracking in Eastern Europe. Global Environmental Politics. https://doi.org/10.1162/glep_a_00375
Goldthau, A. C., & Michael LaBelle. (2016). The Power of Policy Regimes: Explaining Shale Gas Policy Divergence in Bulgaria and Poland. Review of Policy Research. https://doi.org/10.1111/ropr.12204
Goldthau, A. C. (2016). Conceptualizing the above ground factors in shale gas: Toward a research agenda on regulatory governance. Energy Research & Social Science. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2016.05.003
Benjamin K. Sovacool, Raphael J. Heffron, Darren McCauley, & Goldthau, A. C.. (2016). Energy decisions reframed as justice and ethical concerns. Nature Energy. https://doi.org/10.1038/nenergy.2016.24
Goldthau, A. C., & Nick Sitter. (2015). Soft power with a hard edge: EU policy tools and energy security. Review of International Political Economy. https://doi.org/10.1080/09692290.2015.1008547
Goldthau, A. C., & Kirsten Westphal. (2015). Energiesicherheit und die Zukunft der globalen Ordnung: G7 muss mehr sein als ein Norm Keeper. Internationale Politik.
Goldthau, A. C., & Nick Sitter. (2014). A liberal actor in a realist world? The Commission and the external dimension of the single market for energy. Journal of European Public Policy. https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2014.912251
Goldthau, A. C., & Tim Boersma. (2014). The 2014 Ukraine-Russia crisis: Implications for energy markets and scholarship. Energy Research & Social Science. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2014.05.001
Goldthau, A. C., & Michael LaBelle. (2014). The governance of shale gas in Bulgaria. From exploration to bust. Oil, Gas and Energy Law Journal.
M. LaBelle, & Goldthau, A. C.. (2014). Escaping the valley of death? Comparing shale gas technology policy prospects to nuclear and solar in Europe. The Journal of World Energy Law &Amp; Business. https://doi.org/10.1093/jwelb/jwt020
Goldthau, A. C. (2014). Rethinking the governance of energy infrastructure: Scale, decentralization and polycentrism. Energy Research & Social Science. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2014.02.009
Goldthau, A. C. (2012). From the State to the Market and Back: Policy Implications of Changing Energy Paradigms. Global Policy. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1758-5899.2011.00145.x
Andreas Goldthau. (2012). Introduction - Policy Agendas for the Future of Global Energy. Global Policy. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1758-5899.2011.00161.x
Goldthau, A. C. (2012). A Public Policy Perspective on Global Energy Security. International Studies Perspectives. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1528-3585.2011.00448.x
Goldthau, A. C., & Benjamin K. Sovacool. (2012). The uniqueness of the energy security, justice, and governance problem. Energy Policy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2011.10.042
Goldthau, A. C., & Jan Martin Witte. (2011). Assessing OPEC’s Performance in Global Energy. Global Policy. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1758-5899.2011.00122.x
Goldthau, A. C. (2011). Governing global energy: existing approaches and discourses. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2011.06.003
Aleh Cherp, Jessica Jewell, & Goldthau, A. C.. (2011). Governing Global Energy: Systems, Transitions, Complexity. Global Policy. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1758-5899.2010.00059.x
Goldthau, A. C., & JAN MARTIN WITTE. (2009). Back to the future or forward to the past? Strengthening markets and rules for effective global energy governance. International Affairs. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2346.2009.00798.x
Goldthau, A. C. (2008). Resurgent Russia? Rethinking Energy Inc. Policy Review.
Goldthau, A. C., & Jan Martin Witte. (2008). Global Energy Governance. Internationale Politik.
Goldthau, A. C. (2008). Rhetoric versus reality: Russian threats to European energy supply. Energy Policy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2007.10.012
Goldthau, A. C. (2008). Divided over Iraq, United over Iran. A Rational Choice Explanation to European Irrationalities. European Political Economy Review.
Goldthau, A. C., & Oliver Geden. (2007). Europäische Energiesicherheit. Ein Plädoyer für einen pragmatischen Ansatz. Internationale Politik und Gesellschaft.

Courses taught

  • Designing a future multi-donor fund for de-risking and greening investments in Ukraine
  • EIPCC Colloquium
  • Global Energy Policy
  • Introduction to Public Policy

  • Comparative and International Public Policy
  • EIPCC Colloquium
  • Research Colloquium
  • The Politics of the Global Energy Transition

  • Introduction to Public Policy
  • Global Energy Policy
  • Project Group: Critical Minerals. Options for diversifying German raw material supplies

  • Comparative and International Public Policy
  • The Politics of the Global Energy Transition
  • Research Colloquium

  • Introduction to Public Policy
  • From Ricardo to Geoeconomics. Contemporary debates in International Political Economy
  • Global Energy Policy
  • Project Group: Advancinggender-smart climate finance

  • Comparative and International Public Policy
  • Global Public Policy
  • The Politics of the Global Energy Transition
  • Research Colloquium

  • Introduction to Public Policy
  • Global Energy Policy
  • From Ricardo to the New Geo-Economics: Contemporary Debates in International Political Economy
  • Advanced Research& Writing
  • Strategic Foresight: Scenarios in Public Policy
  • Project Group: Prospects for green hydrogen. How climate diplomacy can support German and global energy transition

  • Global Public Policy
  • The Politics of the Energy Transition
  • Advanced Research and Writing Seminar
  • Research Colloquium

 

 

  • Introduction to Public Policy
  • Global Energy Policy
  • From Ricardo to the New Geo-Economics: Contemporary Debates in International Political Economy
  • Project Group: Assessing Policy Alternatives to the Incumbent EU Migration Regime
  • Project Group: States at Risk: Climate Change in the Security Council

Office Management

Kathrin Eisenhauer
Kathrin Eisenhauer
Secretary Franz Haniel Professor for Public Policy
(Willy Brandt School of Public Policy)
C19 – research building "Weltbeziehungen" / C19.02.13
+49 361 737-4660
kathrin.eisenhauer@uni-erfurt.de