Research Training Group World Politics RTG 2225
Natia Tsaritova
Doctoral Researcher
E-Mail: natia.tsaritova@uni-bielefeld.de
Phone: +49 521 106-67632
Office: Gebäude X B2-219, Locations Map
Postbox: Nr. 398 im Gebäude X - Magistrale - Ebene C2
Doctoral Project:
The role of Inter-Organizationa cooperation in the Arctic: Examining observers engagement in the Arctic Council
- Biography
Since 03/2024 Doctoral Researcher at the Research Training Group "World Politics", Bielefeld University Since 04/2022 Doctoral Student at Bielefeld Graduate School for History and Sociology, Bielefeld, Germany 07/2021–02/2024
Research associate, in the research project “A Theory of World Entities” (ATOWE), Bielefeld University, Germany 11/2020–04/2021
Research Assistant in the research project ‘MIGRATE’, German Police University, Münster, Germany 01/2019–06/2020
Student Assistant in the research project ‘SiQua’, German Police University, Münster, Germany 10/2017–05/2020
Master of Arts „Democratic Governance and Civil Society“, University Osnabrück, Germany 09/2015–01/2016
Erasmus exchange semester at Bahçesehir Üniversitesi, Istanbul, Türkiye 03/2015–04/2015
Internship at ‘Georgian Foundation of Strategic & International Studies’ in Tbilisi, Georgia 10/2013–03/2017
Bachelor of Arts „Integrated European Studies”, University Bremen, Germany - Abstract
The Arctic Council is coined by the variety of actors involved in its work. This dissertation project deals with the Arctic Council’s juxtaposition of indigenous and regional focus on the one side, and the opening towards global, non-Arctic actors on the other side, by examining how the Arctic Council navigates the engagement of observers. The underlying sociological neo-institutionalist perspective, explains observer engagement as one specific form of inter-organizational cooperation. This project investigates how these observers actually observe, so how they contribute, cooperate and exchange with the Arctic Council. With a comparison of different non-state observers, it also shows similarities and differences in their relations to the Arctic Council, and thus reveals factors that facilitate or complicate cooperation. By offering a theoretical conceptualization of what observing means, this project addresses whether observers are part of the organization or only of its external environment and how they might affect the organization that they are observing. Using concepts from sociological neo-institutionalism and on organizational boundaries, this dissertation contributes to Arctic Governance research and to an understanding of observers as a category in international relations research.
- Publications
- Research Stays and Conferences
Conferences
- Tsaritova, N. (2024). “Inter-organizational relations and the role of non-state observers in the Arctic Council”. Paper presentation at Panel “"Navigating Arctic governance: Perspectives from and beyond the region on a changing geopolitical landscape” at Arctic Congress, Bodø, Norway.
- Tsaritova, N. (with I. Bartelt) (2024). “Engagement Groups and the G7”. Paper presentation at International Studies Association. 65th Annual Convention: Putting Relationality at the Centre of International Studies. San Francisco, USA.
- Tsaritova, N. (with I. Bartelt) (2023). “IOs and their environments: Zooming in on the in-between”. Paper presentation at Deutsche Vereinigung für Politikwissenschaft. Theme Group “Internationale Organisationen” Annual Workshop Jena, Germany.
- Tsaritova, N. (with I. Bartelt and M. Koch) (2023). “More than meets the eye. Various forms of environments in international relations” Paper presentation at European International Studies Association. Pan-European Conference.
- Tsaritova, N. (with I. Bartelt and M. Koch) (2023). “More than meets the eye. Various forms of environments in international relations”. Paper presentation at Deutsche Vereinigung für Politikwissenschaft. IB-Sektionstagung. Friedrichshafen.
- Tsaritova, N. (2023). “All roads lead to the Arctic Council: Inter-organizational relations in the Arctic” at Panel "International Organizations, international Bureaucracies and Bureaucrats in a Changed World". Paper presentation at International Studies Association. 64th Annual Convention: Real Struggles, High Stakes: Cooperation, Contention, and Creativity. Montréal, Canada.
- Tsaritova, N. (with I. Bartelt) (2022). “Informality in the International Labour Organization and the Arctic Council - An inner world perspective”. Paper Presentation at Paper Development Workshop and Presentation in Panel. International Conference on Organizational Sociology, “Organizations in a Plural Society”. NTNU Trondheim, Norway
- Tsaritova, N. (with I. Bartelt)). „Die Innenwelt internationaler Organisationen - Bürokratische Strukturen in der Internationalen Arbeitsorganisation und im Arktischen Rat“. Presentation at Panel “Politische Organisationen – national und international”. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie, Offene Tagung der DGS Sektion Politische Soziologie. Bielefeld, Germany.
- Tsaritova, N. (2021) Presentation at Panel “A Theory of World Entities”. Institute for World Society Studies. Annual Retreat 2021 (online). Bielefeld University.
- Tsaritova, N. (2021). Panel "Sociologist: Education and Professional Trajectories". All-Russian Scientific Conference. XV. Kovalevsky Readings (online). St. Petersburg State University.
Research stays