Aktuelle(s) Projekt(e)

I am currently researching West German petro-political ties with Libya, Syria and Nigeria in the 1960s and 1970s.

Frühere Position(en)

Adjunct Lecturer/Lead Online Course Developer at Clark State College
Part-Time Instructor at the University of New Orleans
Adjunct Lecturer at Columbus State Community College

Monographien (und Dissertation)

“The Black Chimera: West Germany and the Scramble for Arab Oil, 1957-1974” (Dissertation)

Artikel

Academic
“Interdependency and Economic (Ir)rationality: West German-Libyan Petrorelations in ‘Crisis’” (International History Review, 2021) (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07075332.2021.1873815)

“’Which Germany Do You Come From?’: Contending German Legacies and Trade in Postcolonial Libya” in After the Imperialist Imagination: 25 Years of Research on Global Germany and Its Legacies. Edited by Sara Pugach, David Pizzo, and Adam Blackler (Peter Lang: 2020) (Chapter)

Additional Relevant Writing
“Nord Stream 2: German Soft Power and the Russian Threat to Ukraine,” (February 15, 2022) EN Daily/EuropeNow (https://www.europenowjournal.org/2022/02/15/nord-stream-2-german-soft-power-and-the-russian-threat-to-ukraine/)

“Georgi Gospodinov’s The Story Smuggler: Teaching Europe through Contemporary Experimental Literature,” Issue 34, June 2020) EuropeNow (https://www.europenowjournal.org/2020/06/02/georgi-gospodinovs-the-story-smuggler-teaching-europe-through-contemporary-experimental-literature/)

“Captivity or Interdependency?: A German-Libyan Parallel to the German-Russian Energy Trade,” (July 26, 2018) EN Daily/EuropeNow (https://www.europenowjournal.org/2018/07/26/captivity-or-interdependency-a-german-libyan-parallel-to-the-german-russian-energy-trade/)

Publikationsliste (Url)

https://xula.academia.edu/NickOstrum

Modern Germany, oil and petro-politics, transnationality, decolonization, postwar Europe