Gwendolyn Sasse

Gwendolyn Sasse "is University Reader in Comparative Politics in the Department of Politics and International Relations and the School for Interdisciplinary Area Studies at the University of Oxford, and Professorial Fellow at Nuffield College. Prior to her 2007 arrival in Oxford she was Lecturer (since 1999) and Senior Lecturer (since 2005) in the European Institute and the Department of Government at the London School of Economics. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the LSE, and her first academic post was an Assistant Professorship at the Central European University (1998-99). Among her research interests are postcommunist transitions, ethnic conflict-prevention and conflict-management, minority issues, migration, EU enlargement, the European Neighbourhood Policy, and Ukrainian politics.

"Sasse's most recent publications include the following: The Crimea Question: Identity, Transition, and Conflict, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007; Europeanization and Regionalization in the EU’s Enlargement to Central and Eastern Europe. The Myth of Conditionality, London: Palgrave, 2004 (co-authored with J. Hughes and C. Gordon); ‘The Politics of Conditionality: The Norm of Minority Protection before and after EU Accession’, Journal of European Public Policy, Vol. 15, No. 6, 2008, pp. 842-60; ‘The European Neighbourhood Policy: Conditionality Revisited for the EU’s Eastern Neighbours’, Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 60, No. 2, 2008, pp. 295-316; ‘Securitization or Securing Rights? Exploring the Conceptual Foundations of Policies towards Minorities and Migrants in Europe’, Journal of Common Market Studies, Vol. 43, No. 4, 2005, pp. 673-93. She is also the Deputy Editor of the UNDP newsletter ‘Development and Transition’, a Region Head for Eastern Europe at Oxford Analytica, a contributor to IDEA (Emerging Market Analysis of Enterprise LSE), and an International Scholar within the Academic Fellowship Program of the Open Society Institute."

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