Kerem Öge

Assistant Professor

MA Course Director in Public Policy

PAIS Teaching Network Coordinator

PAIS Employability and Alumni Relations Lead

WIHEA Fellow

Email: Kerem.Oge@warwick.ac.uk

Room: D1.12

Advice and Feedback Hours:

Wednesdays: 09:30-10:30 (online)

Fridays: 10:30-11:30 (D1.12)

Please use this form to book a 10-minute slot.

Profile

I am an Assistant Professor in Politics and International Studies. Previously, I have worked as a lecturer at King’s College London, Aston University, and University of Nottingham.

I studied at the Middle East Technical University for a BSc in International Relations and a Minor degree in International Economics. I have an MA in International Political Economy from the University of Warwick and I received my PhD in Political Science from Boston College, Massachusetts in 2013. I have held postdoctoral positions at Université Laval and McGill University.

Research

My research interests include energy policy and geopolitics, climate politics, politics of AI, political economy of natural resources, transparency and corruption, and digital surveillance.

My research examines how policy problems are framed, contested, and governed, with a particular focus on energy, climate change, and artificial intelligence. I have published on energy governance and transparency in journals such as Energy Policy and Resources Policy, combining fieldwork with statistical analysis of large datasets. This work has explored how transparency reforms operate in resource-dependent contexts.

Since 2022, I have been part of the Open Research Area project Frames in Production: Actors, Networks, Diffusion (FRAMENET), funded by the ESRC, DFG, and SSHRC. Within this project I lead cases on artificial intelligence and climate change. The AI case traces how governance in the EU and US shifted from security-focused framings after 9/11 towards ethics, privacy, and human rights. The climate change case examines how carbon disclosure became a governance norm in the EU, highlighting the interaction between business logics and political authority. Both cases use discourse network analysis to show how frames diffuse and shape governance under uncertainty.

Building on this research, I am working with colleagues on a book project, Human Rights in Fragmented Global Governance, which analyses how human rights norms interact with security, markets, and sovereignty in global governance.

I continue to research European energy security. My article in Geopolitics introduced a new perspective on natural gas pipeline transit, and I am conducting a study that uses discourse network analysis to examine how competing frames of cooperation, competition, and rent-seeking shape natural gas politics.