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Veronika Slakaityte

Analytiker

Global sikkerhed og verdenssyn

Bio

Primært forskningsområde

Veronika Šlakaitytės forskning centrerer sig om energiinfrastruktur i Østersøregionen og fokuserer primært på det flydende naturgas (LNG) terminal-projekt i Litauen. Forskningen undersøger den rolle videnskabelig viden og teknisk intelligens spiller i beslutningstagningsprocessen og i produktionen af narrativer i udviklingen af energiinfrastrukturprojekter.

Projekter

Veronika Šlakaitytė er forskningsassistent på projektet ”SECURITECH”, der er finansieret af Carlsbergfondet og ledes af Trine Villumsen Berling. Projektet undersøger nye energiinfrastrukturer og forskydningen af sikkerhedsautoritet i Østersøregionen – navnlig i udviklingen af Nord Stream 2 rørledningen, Polens første atomkraftværk og LMG-terminalen i Litauen.

Fremhævede publikationer

DIIS Report

2024

Invisible frontlines

Safeguarding Europe's energy infrastructure

Veronika Slakaityte & Izabela Surwillo

Download (pdf, 3.6 MB)

DIIS Report

2024

Out with the old, in with the new?

The EU’s path out of the energy crisis

Izabela Surwillo & Veronika Slakaityte

Download (pdf, 2.7 MB)

Photo/illustration by Studio Jakob Glad

DIIS Policy Brief

2024

Energy as a weapon

Decoding blackmail tactics in Europe

Veronika Slakaityte & Izabela Surwillo

Download (pdf, 4.1 MB)

Ekspertise

Region

Ukraine Rusland Litauen Polen

Emne

Forskning og aktiviteter

DIIS Report

2024

Invisible frontlines. Safeguarding Europe's energy infrastructure

Safeguarding Europe's energy infrastructure
DIIS Report

2024

Out with the old, in with the new? The EU’s path out of the energy crisis

The EU’s path out of the energy crisis
Billede/illustration af tom jervis via Flickr.com copyright-licens

Kronik

2024

Efter en række angreb på infrastruktur i Norden advarer forskere

Havene omkring Danmark er optimale for hybrid krigsførelse
Photo/illustration by Studio Jakob Glad

DIIS Policy Brief

2024

Energy as a weapon - decoding blackmail tactics in Europe

‘Energy blackmail’ became a buzzword following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and the subsequent energy crisis, but the phenomenon is not new. Energy blackmail has been employed by states to leverage their strategic energy resources for decades. In Europe, the weaponisation of energy predates Vladimir Putin’s time in Kremlin. Despite EU efforts to diversify its energy supply, the threat of energy blackmail persists, posing challenges not only to traditional energy dependencies but also to the increasingly digitalised energy sector.
Photo/illustration by U.S. Department of Energy from United States, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Bogkapitel

2023

Energy crisis at the Baltic Sea

BSR's strategic shift to low-carbon energy: a costly yet essential transition
Photo/illustration by Andreas Klinke Johannsen/Flickr copyright license

Rapport

2023

Energy without Russia : the case of Denmark

The consequences of the Ukraine war and the EU sanctions on the energy sector in Europe
Artikel

2023

A new cooperation agenda for European Energy Security

Europe’s approach to energy security has been historically split between the East and West. Given the rapidly evolving geopolitical energy security landscape on the continent, this article argues that a comprehensive and shared approach to energy security — which incorporates hard security considerations — is needed.
Billede/illustration af Energistyrelsen

Artikel

2023

Danmark har endnu ikke forstået, at energipolitik også handler om vores geopolitiske robusthed

Regeringens flagskibsklimaprojekt, energiøerne, er sat på pause, fordi de er for dyre. Denne pause kan med fordel bruges på at indtænke sikkerhedsaspekterne af det gigantiske energiprojekt.
DIIS Working Paper

2023

Østersøregionen står foran ustabil fremtid efter Ukraine

Når Ukraine-krigen engang har fundet sin afslutning, vil Danmark stå over for en lang periode med ustabilitet i vores nærområde. Dette arbejdspapir udfolder risici og scenarier i en analyse af terræn, militær, russisk tilstedeværelse, energivåbnet, informationskrig og EU og NATO's udfordringer.
DIIS Report

2023

The new EU climate and energy strategy in a time of war

Putin’s war in Ukraine has pushed EU member states to revamp collective energy and climate action
Photo/illustration by Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP/Ritzau Scanpix

Livestreaming

Baltic Sea Region security challenges after Ukraine

Highly relevant 1,5-day conference with over 20 experts on security challenges in the Baltic Sea Region
Podcast

2023

Escaping the curse of cheap Russian gas

What we can learn from Poland and Lithuania
Billede/illustration af Pexels. Jens Mahnke. copyright-licens

Tidsskriftsartikel

2022

Sådan har EU klaret energikrisen indtil videre

Energikrisen kræver svære valg i EU – og indeholder både risici og muligheder for den grønne omstilling. Men der er ingen hurtig udvej.
DIIS Report

2022

Energy security in the Baltic Sea Region

Transition within geopolitical constraints
Tidsskriftsartikel

2022

Energy security innovation in the Baltic Sea Region

competing visions of technopolitical orders
Brief

2022

Energy issues

What is the energy situation in your own country? How have EU sanctions affected the energy situation in your own country? To what extent are further energy sanctions being discussed in your country?
Billede/illustration af Pexels. Jens Mahnke. copyright-licens

Tidsskriftsartikel

2022

Østeuropa advarede, Vesteuropa sov

I de tidligere østbloklande oplevede man igen og igen, hvordan Rusland brugte energi som et våben. Nu, hvor Vesten endelig har indset det samme, kræver erkendelsen den totale omlægning af energipolitikken. Denne artikel indgår i RÆSONs nye forårsnummer, der har titlen: “Hvad Ukraine viser os om fremtiden”
Photo/illustration by Kees Torn via Flickr copyright license

Brief

2022

European Council Experts' Debrief: Energy
DIIS Policy Brief

2022

In the European quest for energy independence, inspiration can be found within the union

Panicked solutions to urgently wean the EU from its dependence on Russian gas may come at a cost that stretches beyond the financial burden
Billede/illustration af AB Klaipėdos Nafta/Wikimedia copyright-licens

Artikel

2022

Østeuropa har i årevis advaret om, at afhængighed af russisk energi er et sikkerhedsproblem

Rusland har gennem årtier brugt adgang til russisk olie og gas som et værktøj til at lægge politisk pres på en række tidligere sovjetstater.
Brief

2022

Experts’ Debrief

Trans-European Reflections on the EU’s Response to Russia’s war in Ukraine
Photo/illustration by Cecilie Castor von Sprekcelsen

DIIS Policy Brief

2022

With energy at play in the Ukraine war, everybody pays

The current war is not about energy, but it does have drastic implications for the Ukrainian, Russian and EU energy sectors. Russia has used oil and gas as a political tool since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Photo/illustration by Alisdare Hickson/Flickr.com copyright license

DIIS Comment

2022

Ukraine is closer than you think

Despite its turbulent domestic politics, Ukraine rarely featured at the top of the EU’s security agenda in the post-Soviet period. The scale of current Russian military intervention changed that, bringing the war to the EU’s doorstep, and challenging a previously lenient approach to Russia which the EU refused to see as a potential aggressor. The current conflict is an expression of Putin’s geopolitical aspirations and his desperate attempt to maintain a Russian grip on its “near abroad”. However, it is also a culmination of Ukraine’s long struggle for national self-determination on multiple levels.
Photo/illustration by Kancelaria Premiera copyright license

DIIS Policy Brief

2022

Fortifying the EU’s eastern border countering hybrid attacks from Belarus

Surveillance technology and physical barriers secure EU’s Eastern border

DIIS Report

2024

Invisible frontlines

Safeguarding Europe's energy infrastructure

Veronika Slakaityte & Izabela Surwillo

Download (pdf, 3.6 MB)
DIIS Report

2024

Out with the old, in with the new?

The EU’s path out of the energy crisis

Izabela Surwillo & Veronika Slakaityte

Download (pdf, 2.7 MB)
Photo/illustration by U.S. Department of Energy from United States, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Bogkapitel

2023

Energy crisis at the Baltic Sea

divergent national paths towards a common green future

Izabela Surwillo & Veronika Slakaityte

Permacrisis & Logistics. Caen: Editions EMS

Read publication (external link)
Photo/illustration by Andreas Klinke Johannsen/Flickr copyright license

Rapport

2023

Energy without Russia : the case of Denmark

The consequences of the Ukraine war and the EU sanctions on the energy sector in Europe

Izabela Surwillo & Veronika Slakaityte

Download (pdf, 557.9 KB)
Artikel

2023

A new cooperation agenda for European Energy Security

Veronika Slakaityte, Izabela Surwillo & Trine Villumsen Berling

Nature Energy

Read publication (external link)
Bogkapitel

2023

Energy infrastructuring the Baltic Sea Region

between technification and securitization

Trine Villumsen Berling, Izabela Surwillo & Veronika Slakaityte

Making Europe through infrastructures of in/security. London: Routledge

Read publication (external link)
DIIS Working Paper

2023

Nærområdet

Trine Villumsen Berling, Lise Wiederholt Christensen, Milosz Cordes, Flemming Splidsboel Hansen, André Ken Jakobsson, Anders Puck Nielsen, Christine Nissen, Veronika Slakaityte, Jørgen Staun, Izabela Surwillo & Lars Vissing

Download (pdf, 3.7 MB)
DIIS Report

2023

Energy security first

The New EU Climate and Energy Strategy in a time of war

Jakob Dreyer, Christine Nissen, Trine Villumsen Berling & Veronika Slakaityte

Download (pdf, 2.2 MB)
DIIS Report

2022

Energy security in the Baltic Sea Region

Transition within geopolitical constraints

Veronika Slakaityte, Izabela Surwillo & Trine Villumsen Berling

Download (pdf, 2.7 MB)
Tidsskriftsartikel

2022

Energy security innovation in the Baltic Sea Region

competing visions of technopolitical orders

Trine Villumsen Berling, Izabela Surwillo & Veronika Slakaityte

Geopolitics

Read publication (external link)

Photo/illustration by Studio Jakob Glad

DIIS Policy Brief

2024

Energy as a weapon

Decoding blackmail tactics in Europe

Veronika Slakaityte & Izabela Surwillo

Download (pdf, 4.1 MB)
Brief

2022

European Council Experts' Debrief

Richard Youngs, Jakob Hedenskog, Mariam Khotenashvili, Tinatin Akhvlediani, Ana Andguladze, Mihai Sebe, Mykhailo Pashkov, Pierre Vimont, Manuel Müller, Eliza Vaş, Veronika Slakaityte, Izabela Surwillo, Jim Cloos & Wolfgang Wessels

Read the full EUCO Debrief (external link)
Photo/illustration by Kees Torn via Flickr copyright license

Brief

2022

European Council Experts' Debrief

Krševan Antun Dujmović, Ana-Maria Anghelescu, Ionut-Mircea Marcu, Mihaela-Adriana Padureanu, Florence Schimmel, Veronika Slakaityte, Izabela Surwillo, Jakša Puljiz, Danijela Jacimovic, Elene Panchulidze, Irakli Sirbiladze, Giorgi Tsulaia, Anast…

Read publication (external link)
DIIS Policy Brief

2022

In the European quest for energy independence, inspiration can be found within the union

Panicked solutions to urgently wean the EU from its dependence on Russian gas may come at a cost that stretches beyond the financial burden

Trine Villumsen Berling & Veronika Slakaityte

Download (pdf, 771.4 KB)
Brief

2022

Experts’ Debrief

Trans-European Reflections on the EU’s Response to Russia’s war in Ukraine

Krševan Antun Dujmović, Marco Siddi, Izabela Surwillo, Veronika Slakaityte, Ádám Kerényi, Tinatin Akhvlediani, Artur Gruszczak, Kristi Raik, Mihai Sebe, Eliza Vaş, Irakli Sirbiladze, Jim Cloos & Mariam Khotenashvili

Read the full briefing paper by TEPSA (pdf)
Photo/illustration by Cecilie Castor von Sprekcelsen

DIIS Policy Brief

2022

With energy at play in the Ukraine war, everybody pays

War in Ukraine will have high costs for the European energy sector

Izabela Surwillo & Veronika Slakaityte

Download (pdf, 638.5 KB)
Photo/illustration by Alisdare Hickson/Flickr.com copyright license

DIIS Comment

2022

Ukraine is closer than you think

Izabela Surwillo & Veronika Slakaityte
Photo/illustration by Kancelaria Premiera copyright license

DIIS Policy Brief

2022

Fortifying the EU’s eastern border countering hybrid attacks from Belarus

Surveillance technology and physical barriers secure EU’s Eastern border

Izabela Surwillo & Veronika Slakaityte

Download (pdf, 1.1 MB)

Photo/illustration by Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP/Ritzau Scanpix

Livestreaming

Baltic Sea Region security challenges after Ukraine

Highly relevant 1,5-day conference with over 20 experts on security challenges in the Baltic Sea Region

Billede/illustration af tom jervis via Flickr.com copyright-licens

Kronik

2024

Efter en række angreb på infrastruktur i Norden advarer forskere

Havene omkring Danmark er optimale for hybrid krigsførelse
Artikel

2023

A new cooperation agenda for European Energy Security

Europe’s approach to energy security has been historically split between the East and West. Given the rapidly evolving geopolitical energy security landscape on the continent, this article argues that a comprehensive and shared approach to energy security — which incorporates hard security considerations — is needed.
Billede/illustration af Energistyrelsen

Artikel

2023

Danmark har endnu ikke forstået, at energipolitik også handler om vores geopolitiske robusthed

Regeringens flagskibsklimaprojekt, energiøerne, er sat på pause, fordi de er for dyre. Denne pause kan med fordel bruges på at indtænke sikkerhedsaspekterne af det gigantiske energiprojekt.
Billede/illustration af Pexels. Jens Mahnke. copyright-licens

Tidsskriftsartikel

2022

Sådan har EU klaret energikrisen indtil videre

Energikrisen kræver svære valg i EU – og indeholder både risici og muligheder for den grønne omstilling. Men der er ingen hurtig udvej.
Billede/illustration af Pexels. Jens Mahnke. copyright-licens

Tidsskriftsartikel

2022

Østeuropa advarede, Vesteuropa sov

I de tidligere østbloklande oplevede man igen og igen, hvordan Rusland brugte energi som et våben. Nu, hvor Vesten endelig har indset det samme, kræver erkendelsen den totale omlægning af energipolitikken. Denne artikel indgår i RÆSONs nye forårsnummer, der har titlen: “Hvad Ukraine viser os om fremtiden”
Billede/illustration af AB Klaipėdos Nafta/Wikimedia copyright-licens

Artikel

2022

Østeuropa har i årevis advaret om, at afhængighed af russisk energi er et sikkerhedsproblem

Rusland har gennem årtier brugt adgang til russisk olie og gas som et værktøj til at lægge politisk pres på en række tidligere sovjetstater.

Podcast

2023

Escaping the curse of cheap Russian gas

What we can learn from Poland and Lithuania
Photo/illustration by TEPSA

Video

2022

TEPSA Video Explainer: "The ‘Double Crisis’ for EU Energy Security"

SECURITECH

SECURITECH is a research project that zooms in on the politics of energy infrastructure and the displacement of security authority to technical experts. This deep transformative process has...