Paolo Sorbello's profile

Affiliation: PECOB - Energy Policy Studies
Address: Giarre - 95014 CT - Italy
Tel.: +39 320 113 9066
E-mail: paolo.sorbello@gmail.com

 

Main scientific activities

• He contributes to the publications and research of the University of Bologna's Istituto per l'Europa Centro-Orientale e Balcanica. His main activity is concentrated on the newly-created Energy Policy Studies branch. His interests include the energy and foreign policies of former Soviet republics, especially in the Central Asian region. He has worked at several think-tanks and online publications based in Italy and in the United States.

Books and other main pubblications

• The Role of Energy in Russian Foreign Policy towards Kazakhstan, Lambert Academic Publishing, Saarbruecken, June 2011, ISBN nr.: 978-3-8443-8221-1

Main recent articles

• Elvira Oliva and Paolo Sorbello, “Nuclear Energy in Bulgaria: Strategic Implications for EU-Russia Relations”, International Journal for Energy Security and Environmental Research, vol. 1, n. 1 (inaugural issue on Energy Security), March 2012 (expected).
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• “Book Review: Adrian Dellecker and Thomas Gomart (eds.) Russian Energy Security and Foreign Policy, Routledge GARNET series: New York, June 2011”, Journal for Contemporary European Research, (forthcoming).

Other pubblications

• “Putin e Medvedev: la staffetta verticale”, Eurasia, November 7, 2011 (in Italian).
• “La geopolitica ‘verde’ in Russia”, Eurasia, October 18, 2011 (in Italian).
• “Caspian (Virtual) Energy Geopolitics”, e-International Relations, October 14, 2011 (http://www.e-ir.info/?p=14695).
• “L’Ucraina sospesa tra Est e Ovest”, Eurasia, September 20, 2011 (in Italian).
• “L’energia nell’Artico: geopolitica tra i ghiacci”, Eurasia, August 28, 2011 (in Italian).
• “La geopolitica dell’energia virtuale”, Eurasia, August 7, 2011 (in Italian).
• “Poland: The New Energy Chessboard”, EurActiv, August 3, 2011 (http://energybrains.blogactiv.eu/2011/08/poland-shale/).
• “Il sottosuolo polacco: la nuova scacchiera energetica”, Eurasia, July 28, 2011 (in Italian)

Projects

• Energy Policy Studies (Project Coordinator)