Margarita M. Balmaceda

Margarita Balmaceda is Professor of Diplomacy and International Relations at Seton Hall University and an Associate at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute (HURI). Her education includes a Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton University, and Post-doctoral training at Harvard University/. She has conducted extensive research in Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, Lithuania, Moldova, and Hungary with the goal of studying energy and resource politics and relationships from “inside” and looking at the goals and interests of local stakeholders. Her research analyzes the connections between natural resources, technology, international relationships and political development, with a special expertise in energy-industrial chains such as steel and fertilizers in Ukraine, the former USSR and the EU. Her book, Russian Energy Chains: the Remaking of Technopolitics from Siberia to Ukraine to the European Union (New York: Columbia University Press 2021), received the Marshall D. Shulman Book Prize and the Ed A. Hewett Book Prize.