Matúš MišíkComenius University Bratislava · Department of Political Science
Matúš Mišík
Ph.D.
Examining EU green recovery in the post-Covid-19 period
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Introduction
Matúš Mišík is an Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science at Comenius University in Bratislava. His main research interests include energy security in the EU and the role of perception within EU decision-making mechanisms. He is the author of External Energy Security in the European Union (Routledge, 2019) and co-editor of two edited volumes (Palgrave, 2021 and Springer, 2021). He has published articles in Nature Energy, Energy, Energy Policy, Geopolitics, CEP, etc.
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July 2015 - June 2016
June 2011 - present
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Ever since the 2009 natural gas crisis, energy security has been a crucial priority for countries of Central and Eastern Europe. Escalating in 2014, the conflict between Ukraine and Russia further fuelled negative expectations about the future development of energy relations for the region predominantly supplied by Russia. As a response to the plan...
This book explores the positions of small EU members in approaching external energy security, using Austria, the Czech Republic and Slovakia as case studies.
It examines when small EU members support and when they oppose further development of cooperation at the European level in external energy security and argues that their preferences depend on...
The chapter demonstrates the link between societal perception of the dependency on imports and the importance of energy resource and its price. A comparison between various countries differing in their perceptions of threat illustrates discrepancies in approaches to securing energy markets and the different willingness to price it. The differences...
For Central and Eastern European countries, energy security has been one of the top political topics ever since the 2009 gas crisis. Although these countries have a shared interest in this issue, their preferences-especially those regarding the role of Russia as their main energy supplier-are not identical. This paper examines and juxtaposes the di...
This book examines energy transition issues within the Central and Eastern European (CEE) region. The European Union is aiming for an almost complete decarbonization of its energy sector by 2050. However, the path towards a carbon-free economy is full of challenges that must be solved by individual EU members. Across 18 chapters, leading researcher...
Environmental negotiations are complex, and conveying the interaction between science and policy in traditional teaching methods is challenging. To address this issue, innovative educational approaches like serious gaming and role-playing games have emerged. These methods allow students to actively explore the roles of different stakeholders in env...
Council Presidency is widely regarded as one of the most challenging responsibilities for EU countries, particularly for newcomers. Countries that joined the Union during the eastern enlargement in 2004 have presided over the EU at most twice, as the large number of members has made the presidency a sporadic occasion. This rarity elevates the signi...
Although gender inequality has been examined and debated as one of the most prominent challenges within the scientific community, relatively little attention has been paid to gender differences with regard to authorship. The aim of this paper is to identify whether gender differences exist with respect to the impact factors of the journals in which...
The Visegrad Group, comprising Czechia, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia, has several common features, including their geographical proximity, membership in the EU and NATO, and similar levels of economic development. However, they also have significant differences. The Rus-sian invasion of Ukraine has exposed new disagreements among them, particularl...
This chapter provides an overall introduction to the edited volume. After situating the book in the numerous and diverse challenges that EU member states currently face, the chapter discusses what is actually meant by ‘small EU member state’ within the context of this edited volume. The third section of the chapter explores how these members are tr...
The conclusion argues that small states face different challenges in different institutions, which impacts their strategies. Prioritization of specific goals and coalition building can be effective in the Council. By contrast, in the European Parliament the large number of committees requires small-state MEPs to spread out rather than specialize. H...
This book examines the mutual interplay of climate and energy policies in eleven Central and Eastern European countries in the context of the EU's energy transition. Energy security has long been prioritised in the region and has shaped not only national climate and energy policy, but also EU-level policy-making and implementation. Whilst the regio...
The Russian invasion of Ukraine that started on 24 February 2022 has had a dramatic impact on the energy policy of the European Union and its member states. Nonetheless, not all EU members have radically overhauled their energy sectors and policies. Looking at the period between Febru-ary 2022 and December 2023, this paper argues that Slovakia's en...
Energy supply security has been a crucial energy policy issue for CEE countries at least since the natural gas supply disruptions of 2006 and 2009. This book argues that energy security plays a generally more important role within the CEE region than issues related to climate change. However, this chapter evaluates the interplay between ideas, inst...
This chapter focuses on a general overview of the development of energy and climate policy within EU and CEE and thus provides basis for further discussion on the trade-off between these two policies within the book. It outlines the energy and climate objectives of the region and the EU, and policies developed to achieve these, as well as trends an...
This chapter focuses on the impact of CEE countries on the development of climate and energy policies at the EU level. It is argued that states in the region demonstrate some shared preferences and utilise regional groupings to promote these at the EU level. The chapter discusses the contribution of CEE countries to the development of EU policy – s...
The conclusion discusses the main findings of the book embedded in the latest developments related to the Covid-19 pandemic and the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. It discusses the two main arguments presented in the book, provides detailed answers to research questions of the monographs and presents avenues for further research.
This chapter looks at the process of restructuring of energy governance in CEE countries, focusing on common patterns and differences in terms of market opening, competition and patterns of ownership. Here it maps efforts towards the liberalisation of the energy sector and explains the enduring variation in political and economic institutions acros...
This chapter focuses on the specific role of social movements and NGOs in energy policy-making in the CEE region. This is structured through a series of case studies that highlight contemporary energy policy issues, specifically with relation to energy pricing, issues of equity and energy poverty, nuclear energy, shale gas and renewable energy. The...
This chapter presents the conceptual framework of the book that builds upon several strands of literature: socio-technical systems, institutional and political change, and securitisation. Drawn from existing literature the authors argue that several key factors account for national climate and energy policies, and explain the extent of the region’s...
Within this chapter the book goes beyond the discussion on the region and EU and provides an examination of how specific positions of CEE countries towards energy and climate policy fit within global energy transitions. It highlights the ability of regional experience to provide insights into global energy transition challenges, and the lessons the...
Following the invasion of Ukraine and the associated energy policy tensions with Russia, the EU began looking at how it could replace Russian energy sources. One of the proposed solutions is to decrease energy consumption. Buildings have been the principal target, owing to their high energy usage – especially of natural gas, which the EU is particu...
This article examines the contribution of Slovak political science to international academic discussions by analysing publications by faculty members of Slovak political science departments. Based on an analysis of 2660 publications, our results indicate that while Slovak political scientists publish only small numbers of articles in journals index...
Nature has an important function in far-right ideology. In the Slovak case, nature is part of a far-right nationalist agenda which views Slovak (and Slavic) heritage as closely connected to nativist and protectionist attitudes. Indeed, along with increasing public interest in environmental issues and nature protection, these topics have gradually f...
What are the geopolitical risk implications related to the war in Ukraine for the raw material and energy policies of countries highly dependent on Russia? This paper looks at the Visegrad Group (V4) states-Czechia, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia-as some of the most impacted countries and assesses their position in the emerging new geopolitical and...
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, many countries see coal as the easiest solution to their energy sector challenges, despite the consequences for climate goals. Several countries of the European Union started to re-evaluate their coal policies vis-à-vis the current energy crisis and, although such a change is...
Many European Union member states have shown reluctance to voluntarily decrease natural gas consumption during the 2022/2023 winter so as to demonstrate solidarity with members most severely hit by the current energy crisis. This situation underlines the EU's energy security paradox: even though a common approach would contribute to solving member...
The key policy priority for governments around the world during the 2020-2021 period was the response to the Covid-19 pandemic. However, this was swiftly replaced by an even graver urgent need to respond to Russia's full-scale attack on Ukraine in February 2022. This special issue aims to study the post-pandemic response and how related policy choi...
Nature has always had an important symbolic function in the ideology of the far right, reflected, in many cases, in the calls for local environmental protection that form an integral part of their nationalist and protectionist narratives. However, research also suggests that the far right uses green issues to gain legitimation and enter the mainstr...
This paper examines 16 years (2004-2019) of research on energy in eleven Central and Eastern European countries. The findings are based on an analysis of 3534 academic articles indexed in the Web of Knowledge database. The paper presents a systematic overview of the authorship, journal of publication, countries covered, and article content. The mai...
This paper asks what policy tools the European Commission used to push member states to align their national post-pandemic recovery preferences with its own preferences for the green (and digital) recovery. It claims that the Commission did not create new policy tool in response to the crisis, but utilised an existing one, previously successfully t...
This article enriches the existing literature on the importance and role of the social sciences and humanities
(SSH) in renewable energy sources research by providing a novel approach to instigating the future research
agenda in this field. Employing a series of in-depth interviews, deliberative focus group workshops and a sys-
tematic horizon scan...
The Visegrad Group (the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia) is a visible actor at the EU level in several areas including energy security. This chapter argues that the unity the group sometimes presents is the result of ad hoc policy convergence among members, and not the consequence of cooperation within the group. Indeed, as the chapte...
The spike in energy prices and feared natural gas supplies shortage during the winter of 2021/2022 indicate a limited ability of existing energy measures to deliver energy security for the European Union. Moreover, the lack of a common external energy security policy made it difficult for the EU to assume a common energy position towards Russiaʼs i...
Highlights
•This paper comments on Krzykowski and Zięty (2021) article.
•It critically evaluates their arguments and approaches.
•The paper discusses challenges connected to review process.
•It scrutinizes quality control mechanism in interdisciplinary research.
This entry discusses energy security in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) by examining the politics and implications of natural gas imports in the Slovak Republic. Being a country with a high dependency on energy imports (natural gas, oil, coal, nuclear fuel), diversification of energy sources is a prominent topic of Slovak energy policy. The countr...
Renewable sources of energy are considered to play a crucial role in the transition towards a decarbonised economy. Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries’ positions vis-à-vis the European Union’s (EU) renewables goals do not form a homogenous group and have changed over time. After joining the Union, these countries initially supported the E...
The chapter provides an overview of the edited volume and summarises the main contributions of the individual chapters to the energy humanities. Based on this, it provides an overview of the issues that are currently at the forefront of energy humanities research and identifies possible venues for future inquiries. It also addresses some of the vol...
This chapter analyses the milestones of EU energy policy, focusing primarily on the period beginning in 2007, when the 2020 Climate and Energy Package was adopted, and including the establishment of the Energy Union in 2015, and the formation of the European Green Deal at the end of 2019. It discusses the increasing cooperation among Member States...
This report presents 100 research questions that have been identified by scientific experts as key priorities for Social Science and Humanities (SSH)research on renewables, in order to inform and support EU-funded research and innovation leading to achieve climate-neutrality by 2050.
The COVID-19 pandemic appeared in the midst of developing the European Green Deal, the most ambitious project to decarbonise the EU's economy to date. Among other issues, the project highlighted the challenges connected to the long-term role of natural gas as a fossil fuel in the European economy. Moreover, the changes to the gas architecture cause...
Combining concepts, theories, and methods from literary studies, international relations, and energy humanities, the chapter examines the role and uses of nuclear energy in Isaac Asimov’s science-fiction novel Foundation (1951). While offering a textual analysis of the novel, the chapter uses the concept of energy weapon to explore the different wa...
This edited book explicitly deals with the energy humanities, summarising existing knowledge in the area and outlining possible future directions for the nascent field. Assuming a variety of disciplinary stances and using a plethora of methodologies to address a number of pressing energy-related issues, the individual contributions showcase the cru...
This report presents 100 research questions that have been identified by scientific experts as key priorities for Social Science and Humanities (SSH) research on renewable energy, in order to inform and support EU-funded research and innovation leading to achieve climate-neutrality by 2050. The questions together aim to promote SSH research that co...
This paper examines Slovak decision makers’ perception of the rest of the European Union member states. The underlying assumption is that member states’ mutual perceptions of each other are important for developing informal and like-minded groups that gained a prominent role in the Council of the EU within the enlarged EU. Due to the large number o...
This chapter provides a general introduction to the issue of energy transition within the European Union and highlights the role of member states in reaching the common goal of carbon-neutrality by 2050. It introduces Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) as an under-researched region that plays an important role in the energy transition process by prov...
This chapter examines three Central and Eastern European EU members (Bulgaria, Lithuania, and Slovakia) that agreed to shut down their nuclear reactors not fulfilling the EU safety requirements during the accession process. Since this request was part of the membership requirements, conditionality seems to be able to explain their willingness to do...
This chapter examines the governance of energy policy in the Slovak Republic, focusing on nuclear energy and renewables as the main domestic energy sources in a country dependent on fossil fuels import. Slovak energy policy experienced a significant change towards energy security prioritization after the 2009 gas crisis, which left the country with...
The European Commission requested all member states to prepare drafts of their National Energy and Climate Plans (NECPs) until the end of 2018. Rooted in the Governance of the Energy Union regulation the Plans are supposed to guide contributions of member states to EU’s climate and energy goals including the 2030 ones by proposing tailor-made natio...
Free copies: https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/CWu35NJFZUuceTqf5kBn/full?target=10.1080/09668136.2019.1584465
The European Union (EU) has been seen to function as a normative power that influences other states by diffusing its own norms at the international level, particularly through democracy promotion. These democratization efforts are based on the assumption that democratization within the European continent has brought a period of peaceful coexistence...
The paper analyses the development of energy infrastructure within the Visegrad Group. Improving interconnectivity has been considered key to solving energy security challenges and a way of preventing repetition of the 2009 gas crisis. Focusing on the natural gas sector, the paper claims that the European Union and its funds are crucial to the deve...
Michał Krzykowski and Karolina Krzykowska (2017) in an article published in this journal entitled “Will the European Commission's policy hinder gas supplies to Central and Eastern European countries? OPAL case decision” discuss the consequences of European Commission's (EC) exemption from internal energy market rules (especially the third party acc...
The purpose of this report is to map the interests of the Visegrad 4 countries (V4; the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia) towards Brexit and post-Brexit Europe, and indentify similarities in the views of the four countries where they can work together. Specifically, the report examines V4 interests towards three aspects of Brexit and po...
In my opinion, the strongest point of the publication is that it is so
comprehensive, showing the main elements of energy transition against
the background of their practical applications in ten selected countries.
I would recommend the book to anyone who wants to understand the
comprehensive approach to the analysis of energy transition as well as...
In the version of this Perspective originally published, the accepted date was incorrectly given as 15 October 2017; it should have read 15 September 2017. This has now been corrected in all versions of the Perspective.
This chapter analyzes the deep energy policy rift within Central Eastern Europe (CEE). It argues that although these countries share number of issues (e.g., infrastructural limitations), there are important differences among them when it comes to preferences towards the development of the Energy Union and EU energy policy in general. These differen...
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Publikácia sa zaoberá skúmaním vnímania tzv. nových členských krajín Európskej únie v jej rozhodovacom mechanizme zo strany zástupcov pôvodných členských krajín zoskupenia (teda tých, ktoré boli členmi EÚ pred rokom 2004). Práca skúma vplyv východného rozšírenia EÚ a nových členských štátov na fungovanie rozhodovacieho mechanizmu v Rade EÚ, pričom...
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External energy security has gained importance within the EU due to the current Russian-Ukrainian natural gas dispute, but also because of mid- and long-term issues connected to the availability of energy supply in Europe. The Energy Union proposal is supposed to increase the coherence o...
The aim of this paper is to present international image theory (IIT) that is unknown in Czech and Slovak psychology. This theory is used in political psychology to investigate intergroup stereotypes in the international arena. It is argued that the IIT provides an integrative framework for stereotype content research in the international arena, anc...
This paper analyses energy relations concerning natural gas between Lithuania and Russia. Contrary to the existing litera- ture, which stresses Lithuanian energy dependence, this paper argues that there had been interdependence between the two countries even before Lithuania underwent diversification at the end of 2014. The paper develops an analyt...
This study analyses the status of the new EU member states and, in particular, Poland as it is perceived by the representatives of the older EU members. On a theoretical level, it argues that the transformation of the newcomers into " normal players " or even " regional leaders " is dependent on five specific conditions that each of these countries...
The paper analyses the development of the Bratislava–Schwechat Pipeline, which is supposed to connect the Slovak and Austrian oil pipeline networks. The research question asks why the project is being developed without taking into account arguments concerning environmental security even though rather significant environmental opposition to the pipe...
This article analyses the formation of preferences in the sphere of energy
policy in the new member states of the EU. It claims that the subjective perception of
states’ vulnerability and strength by decision makers, that filter the objective structural
and institutional attributes of a state, is a crucial point here. The empirical analysis is base...
This paper analyses the perception of the new Member States of the EU (the 2004 and 2007 entrants) held by diplomats from permanent representations of the old Member States in Brussels. The contention is that being aware of the perceptions within the EU decision-making process can foster our understanding of the mechanism, since the way in which re...
National Interest as the Top Priority: Perception of the New Member States of the EU. This paper analyses the perception of the new EU member states from the old member states' point of view. It is based on 24 interviews with diplomats from permanent representations of the old member states to the EU in Brussels. The paper points out that the easte...
This paper analyses the perception of the new EU member states from the old member states’ point of view. It is based on 24 interviews with diplomats from permanent representations of the old member states to the EU in Brussels. The paper points out that the eastern enlargement of the EU is seen in a rather positive light, as are changes in the dec...
This paper analyses the perception of the new member states of the EU (the 2004 and 2007 entrants) by the old member states' representatives. The text utilizes an updated version of image theory and it is based on 24 interviews with diplomats from permanent representations of the old member states in Brussels. It argues that the mutual perception b...
The paper reviews literature on perception within the international relations and the European Union (EU) studies in order to find out whether and how this concept can help us shed some light on the mutual relations between the EU member states. It examines the utilisation of perception as an analytical tool within the international relations where...
The objective of the 2006 EU reform of the Common Market Organi-zation for Sugar was to decrease the amount of produced sugar in the member states and to concentrate the production in the most effective facilities. The decrease of 6 mil tonnes of sugar quotas was supposed to reduce the amount of subsidized exports and ease the access of the least d...
The objective of the 2006 EU reform of the Common Market Organization for Sugar was to decrease the amount of produced sugar in the member states and to concentrate the production in the most effective facilities. The decrease of 6 mil tonnes of sugar quotas was supposed to reduce the amount of subsidized exports and ease the access of the least de...
This paper tries to shed some light on factors influencing the positions of the new member states of the EU on Eastern Partnership in its initial phase. It utilises an analytical approach developed by Copsey and Haughton (2009) and argues that the two most important factors affecting positioning of newcomers towards the initiative are: perceived si...
The aim of this paper is to shed some light on the development of the accession negotiations of the Slovak republic to the EU with the focus on sugar. The paper shows that while Slovakia was rather successful in negotiating the quota for white sugar, the talks did not bring desired outcome in the area of isoglucose. Moreover, Slovakia managed to ga...
The paper analyses the development of the EU energy policy since the beginning of the European integration and argues that the eastern enlargement and two gas crises in 2006 and 2009 have crucially impacted its evolution. Originally, the ES/EU dealt primarily with the formation and liberalisation of internal energy market, however after 2004 the fo...
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I have been in academia for 17 years (since I started by PhD) and I thought that I know which outlets are "good" and which are "bad" for your CV. But recently I realised that the situation has changed and more and more publishing houses are considered to by "bad" for you. Like the one with four letters or the one that wants to more the boundaries of our knowledge. Or the one that has only special issues. What is your experience? I am "cryptic" because RQ took down my previous question where I was straight forward regarding certain publishing house and their approach to publishing.
Dear all,
I am preparing a Comment for Nature Climate Change and I would like to ask for some advice what to do and what to avoid in order to make it through the review process - or, to be more precise to make it there and not to be desk rejected.
Any comments will be highly appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
Matúš
Dear Colleagues,
I am thinking about applying for ECR Consolidator Grant (I am 9 years after receiving my PhD). I have checked the web page of the scheme and I would be very interested in your experience with this funding (or other type of ERC grants). There is five months until the deadline, is it enough? How do you recommend to start the process? (contact the host institution, make a short draft, etc?)
Thank you very much for your recommendations!
Best
Matúš
We are examining authorship issues in an interdisciplinary settings (connected to gender) and I was wondering what is the level of prestige of the last author in different disciplines. I my area (political science) being the first author is usually the most prestigious position, although a lot of time authors are listed in alphabetical order. Recently I saw a paper in Nature that mentioned only the last author in the abstract and was wondering whether we should examine also the last authors in our analysis.
We want to correlate nominal variable (gender) and scale variable (IF of journals) to study gender issues in publications. We know this is a tricky issue, but would like to do it anyway. Do you have experience with correlating these types of variables? We are looking for advices what to do and what mistakes to avoid. Thank you very much! Matúš
Dear friends,
Research Gate just send me an email where they announced me that they are blocking a question that I asked concerning Vernon press here at this platform. Do you have a similar experience?
Matúš
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We are trying to make a really nice pie chart, that would be divided into 14 slides (years) and each slide has to be divided into four parts (there are the same for each year). We are looking for a help. Any charts wizards out there?
Me and my collaborators are going to conduct a network analysis and we would like to learn as much as possible about this method before starting coding our data. Thank you!
