Kerem Öge

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.

Teaching

PO3B4: Politics of Artificial Intelligence

PO3A4: Global Energy Challenge

PO9F5: Energy Security

PO977: Theories and Traditions in Public Policy

Publications

Öge, K., & Quintin, M. (2025). Global frameworks for regulating facial recognition technology and artificial intelligence: Adaptive and inclusive governance (IDOS Policy Brief 19/2025). IDOS. https://doi.org/10.23661/ipb19.2025

Öge, K. (2024) "Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative", Edward Elgar Encyclopedia of Corruption.

Öge, K. (2021) “Understanding Pipeline Politics in Eurasia: Turkey’s Transit Security in Natural Gas”, Geopolitics.

Öge, K. (2017). “Elite Preferences and Impediments to Transparency Promotion in Kazakhstan” Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 50(2).

Öge, K. (2017). “Transparent Autocracies: Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative and Civil Society in Authoritarian States”, The Extractive Industries and Society, 4 (4).

Öge, K. (2016) To Disclose or not to Disclose: The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on Transparency Reforms. Energy Policy, 98, 133-141.

Öge, K. (2016). Which Transparency Matters? Compliance with Anti-Corruption Efforts in Extractive Industries. Resources Policy, 49, 41-50.

Öge , K. (2015). Geopolitics and Revenue Transparency in Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan. Eurasian Geography and Economics, 56(1), 89-110

Öge , K. (2014). The Limits of Transparency Promotion in Azerbaijan: External Remedies to ‘Reverse the Curse’. Europe-Asia Studies, 66(9), 1482-1500.

Atikcan, E. Ö., & Öge, K. (2012). Referendum Campaigns in Polarized Societies: The Case of Turkey. Turkish Studies, 13(3).