Dr Elizabeth Buchanan

Position: Jean Monnet Research Fellow
School and/or Centres: Centre for European Studies

Email: Elizabeth.Buchanan@anu.edu.au

Location: Level 2, Room 2.18, Desk A, 146 Ellery Cres

Qualification:

Doctor of Philosophy (International Relations) (ANU); Diploma of Strategic Affairs (NATO Defense College); Honours Degree of Bachelor of Arts (Politics) (Monash University); Bachelor of Arts (Politics and Philosophy) (Monash University)

Biography
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Dr Buchanan is a Research Fellow at the ANU Centre for European Studies where her areas of expertise are Russian foreign energy strategy and Russian polar geopolitics. Dr Elizabeth Buchanan is a Non-Resident Fellow at the Modern War Institute at The U.S Military Academy WestPoint. Dr Elizabeth Buchanan is co-Managing Editor of the Institute for Regional Security’s Security Challenges journal - Australia’s sole academic journal for the study of future security issues. Dr Buchanan was recently the Visiting Maritime Fellow at the NATO Defense College, working on Alliance capabilities in the High North. She has published widely on polar geopolitics most recently with the NATO Defence College, Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, The Australian and the Lowy Institute. Dr Buchanan is a Non-Resident Fellow of the Institute of the North, Alaska, and is a Polar Analyst for The Moscow Times. Elizabeth has been a Visiting Scholar with The Brookings Institution and has work experience in the global oil sector. In 2018, she was an Australian Institute of International Affairs (AIIA) Early Career Research Awardee and in 2019 Dr Buchanan was listed as a ‘Young Woman to Watch in International Affairs’.

Energy security; The geopolitics of oil; Russian foreign energy strategy; Sino-Russian energy relations; Energy strategies of great and emerging powers; Petrostate models; Political philosophy.

Presentations

ABC Radio National (Aug 2019) Antarctic under threat

ABC The Signal Radio (Nov 2018) Putin’s Ukraine bluff

SBS News Radio (Nov 2018) Ukraine-Russia conflict escalation

Publications

Lowy Interpreter (2019) The (other) continent we can’t defend

ASPI (2019) Indo-Pacific security should also be a European affair

Lowy Interpreter (May 2019) What a new Russian ambassador means for Australia

Foreign Policy (May 2019) Russia’s Arctic military drills have more bark than bite

The Moscow Times (April 2019)The US, not Russia, is the new Arctic spoiler

ASPI (May 2019) Hybrid warfare: Australia’s new normal

Foreign Policy (April 2019) The great Brexit distraction

The Moscow Times (Mar 2019) Not all quiet on the Northern Front

Policy Forum (Feb 2019) Australia: Russia’s next cyber target?

The Australian (Jan 2019) Russian gas exports could disrupt Australia’s LNG dream

Policy Forum (Nov 2018) Russia, Ukraine soft power and Australian institutions

Paradigm_Shift ANU (October 2018) Russia’s Asia Pacific energy strategy

Lowy Institute "TurkStream: Putin’s latest triumph over the West? (Part 1)" https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/turkstream-putin%E2%80%99s...

Lowy Institute "TurkStream: Putin’s latest triumph over the West? (Part 2)" https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/turkstream-putins-latest-t...

Foreign Affairs “Brexit’s gifts to Putin” August 2016 https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/russian-federation/2016-08-24/br...

Foreign Affairs “Arctic Thaw” Jan 2016 https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/russian-federation/2016-01-21/ar...

EU Policy Notes Series Dec 2015 “Failing Ukraine: EU appeasement toward Putin’s Russia” http://politicsir.cass.anu.edu.au/sites/politicsir.anu.edu.au/files/docu...

Moscow Times “West must cooperate with Russia in the Arctic” Nov 2015 http://www.themoscowtimes.com/opinion/article/west-must-cooperate-with-r...

Kyiv Post “Will Ukraine Scupper Russia’s Arctic Plans?” June 2015 http://www.kyivpost.com/opinion/op-ed/elizabeth-buchanan-will-ukraine-sc...

The Moscow Times “Will Ukraine Scupper Russia’s Arctic Plans?” June 2015 http://www.themoscowtimes.com/opinion/article/will-ukraine-scupper-russi...

Kyiv Post “Sanctions can’t freeze Russia out of the Arctic” Nov 2014 http://www.kyivpost.com/opinion/op-ed/ elizabeth-buchanan-sanctions-cant-freeze-russia-out-of-the-arctic-370865.html

St Petersburg Times “Sanctions can’t freeze Russia out of the Arctic” Oct 2014 http://www.sptimes.ru/story/41141

The Moscow Times “Sanctions can’t freeze Russia out of the Arctic” Oct 2014 http://www.themoscowtimes.com/opinion/article/sanctions-can-t-freeze-rus...

East Asia Forum July 2014 “Consumers, not strategists, are the real winners of the China-Russia gas deal” http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2014/06/19/consumers-not-strategists-are-th...

"Russia and the New Geopolitics of Energy" in Melissa H. Conley Tyler (ed), Emerging scholars 2011-2012(2012) 109. "The new geopolitics of energy: conflict or cooperation?" (2011) 3(3) Quarterly Access 10

Antarctic & Arctic geopolitics (2019-ongoing) Research

Russian hybrid strategy (2019-ongoing) Research

Russia-North Korea energy ties (2019-ongoing) Research

Energy Policy Workshop (2018-ongoing) European Commission

Russian Antarctic Strategy (2018-2019) Australian Institute of International Affairs

NATO Arctic Strategy (2017-2018) NATO Defense College

Russian Arctic Strategy under Putin (2013-2017) Research

Russia-Ukraine natural gas wars (2010-2011) Research

ANU Strategic and Defence Studies Centre (2017-present)