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Gwendolyn Sasse Member of the Institutes' Ring of Friends I. CURRENT POSITION • Professorial Fellow, Nuffield College and University Reader in the Comparative Politics of Central and Eastern Europe, University of Oxford • International Scholar, Open Society Institute (Bulgaria) • Economist Intelligence Unit, Regular Contributor to the Quarterly Reports and Country Forecasts on Ukraine • Enterprise LSE, Regular Contributor to Eastern Europe Today (Emerging Markets Analysis) II. MAIN ACTIVITIES RESEARCH: • Ethnic and regional conflicts in the Former Soviet Union; • EU Eastward Enlargement, in particular its impact on local and regional governance and minority rights; • EU conditionality; • Impact of international institutions on national minorities in Europe. TEACHING: • Professorial Fellow, Nuffield College and University Reader in the Comparative Politics of Central and Eastern Europe, University of Oxford • Joint Appointment European Institute and Department of Government, LSE EDITORIAL BOARDS: • Co-editor of the Journal of Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe (2003-2004) • Deputy Editor of the UNDP newsletter "Development and Transition" III. PUBLICATIONS BOOKS: • The Crimea Question: Identity, Transition, and Conflict, Harvard University Press (forthcoming Spring 2007). • Europeanization and Regionalization in the EU's Enlargement to Central and Eastern Europe. The Myth of Conditionality, London: Palgrave, 2004 (co-authored with James Hughes and Claire Gordon). • Ethnicity and Territory in the Former Soviet Union: Regions in Conflict, London: Frank Cass, 2001 (co-edited with James Hughes). ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS: • Revise and resubmit: Europe-Asia Studies: The European Neighbourhood Policy: 'Conditionality-lite' for the EU's Eastern Neighbours' • 'A Research Agenda for the Study of Migrants and Minorities in Europe', Journal of Common Market Studies, Vol. 43, No. 4, 2005, pp. 655-71 (with Eiko Thielemann).
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<strong>Gwendolyn</strong> <strong>Sasse</strong><br />
<strong>Member</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Institutes'</strong><br />
<strong>Ring</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Friends</strong><br />
I. CURRENT POSITION<br />
• Pr<strong>of</strong>essorial Fellow, Nuffield College and University Reader in <strong>the</strong> Comparative Politics <strong>of</strong><br />
Central and Eastern Europe, University <strong>of</strong> Oxford<br />
• International Scholar, Open Society Institute (Bulgaria)<br />
• Economist Intelligence Unit, Regular Contributor to <strong>the</strong> Quarterly Reports and Country<br />
Forecasts on Ukraine<br />
• Enterprise LSE, Regular Contributor to Eastern Europe Today (Emerging Markets Analysis)<br />
II. MAIN ACTIVITIES<br />
RESEARCH:<br />
• Ethnic and regional conflicts in <strong>the</strong> Former Soviet Union;<br />
• EU Eastward Enlargement, in particular its impact on local and regional governance and<br />
minority rights;<br />
• EU conditionality;<br />
• Impact <strong>of</strong> international institutions on national minorities in Europe.<br />
TEACHING:<br />
• Pr<strong>of</strong>essorial Fellow, Nuffield College and University Reader in <strong>the</strong> Comparative Politics <strong>of</strong><br />
Central and Eastern Europe, University <strong>of</strong> Oxford<br />
• Joint Appointment European Institute and Department <strong>of</strong> Government, LSE<br />
EDITORIAL BOARDS:<br />
• Co-editor <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Journal <strong>of</strong> Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe (2003-2004)<br />
• Deputy Editor <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> UNDP newsletter "Development and Transition"<br />
III. PUBLICATIONS<br />
BOOKS:<br />
• The Crimea Question: Identity, Transition, and Conflict, Harvard University Press<br />
(forthcoming Spring 2007).<br />
• Europeanization and Regionalization in <strong>the</strong> EU's Enlargement to Central and Eastern Europe.<br />
The Myth <strong>of</strong> Conditionality, London: Palgrave, 2004 (co-authored with James Hughes and<br />
Claire Gordon).<br />
• Ethnicity and Territory in <strong>the</strong> Former Soviet Union: Regions in Conflict, London: Frank Cass,<br />
2001 (co-edited with James Hughes).<br />
ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS:<br />
• Revise and resubmit: Europe-Asia Studies: The European Neighbourhood Policy:<br />
'Conditionality-lite' for <strong>the</strong> EU's Eastern Neighbours'<br />
• 'A Research Agenda for <strong>the</strong> Study <strong>of</strong> Migrants and Minorities in Europe', Journal <strong>of</strong> Common<br />
Market Studies, Vol. 43, No. 4, 2005, pp. 655-71 (with Eiko Thielemann).
• 'Securitization or Securing Rights? Exploring <strong>the</strong> Conceptual Foundations <strong>of</strong> Policies towards<br />
Minorities and Migrants in Europe', Journal <strong>of</strong> Common Market Studies, Vol. 43, No. 4, 2005,<br />
pp. 673-93.<br />
• 'Integration mit Tiefgang? Regionalisierung in Ungarn und Polen', Osteuropa, Vol. 54, No. 5-<br />
6, 2004, pp. 180-194 (with James Hughes).<br />
• 'Conditionality and Compliance in <strong>the</strong> EU's Eastward Enlargement: Regional Policy and <strong>the</strong><br />
Reform <strong>of</strong> Sub-national Governance', Journal <strong>of</strong> Common Market Studies, 42, 3, 2004, pp.<br />
523-51 (with James Hughes and Claire Gordon).<br />
• 'Monitoring <strong>the</strong> Monitors: EU Enlargement and National Minorities in Central and Eastern<br />
Europe', Journal <strong>of</strong> Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe, 1, 2003,pp.1-38 (with James<br />
Hughes).<br />
• 'Conflict-Prevention in a Transition State: The Crimean Issue in Post-Soviet Ukraine',<br />
Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Vol. 8, No. 2, 2002, pp. 1-26.<br />
• 'Saying 'Maybe' to <strong>the</strong> 'Return to Europe': Elites and <strong>the</strong> Political Space for Euroscepticism in<br />
Central and Eastern Europe', European Union Politics, Vol. 3, No. 3, 2002, pp. 327-355 (with<br />
James Hughes and Claire Gordon).<br />
• 'From Plan to Network: Urban Elites and <strong>the</strong> Postcommunist Organizational State in Russia',<br />
European Journal <strong>of</strong> Political Research, Vol. 41, No. 3, May 2002, pp. 395-420 (with James<br />
Hughes and Peter John).<br />
• 'Comparing Regional and Ethnic Conflicts in Post-Soviet Transition States' and 'Conflict and<br />
Accommodation in <strong>the</strong> FSU: The Role <strong>of</strong> Institutions and Regimes', Regional and Federal<br />
Studies, Special Issue, Vol. 11, No. 3, Autumn 2001, pp. 1-35 and pp. 220-240 (with James<br />
Hughes), also published as introduction and conclusion in James Hughes and <strong>Gwendolyn</strong><br />
<strong>Sasse</strong> (eds), Ethnicity and Territory in <strong>the</strong> FSU: Regions in Conflict, London: Frank Cass,<br />
2001.<br />
• 'The "New" Ukraine: A State <strong>of</strong> Regions', in Regional and Federal Studies, Vol. 11, No. 3,<br />
2001, pp. 69-100.<br />
• 'Die Krim - Regionale Vielfalt im Spannungsfeld der Geschichte', Österreichische Os<strong>the</strong>fte,<br />
Vol. 42, No. 3-4, 2000, pp. 437-456.<br />
• 'Die Krim: Regionale Autonomie in der Ukraine', Berichte des Bundesinstituts für<br />
ostwissenschaftliche Studien, 31, 1998 (39pp.)<br />
• 'Die Krimtataren - Ethnisches Konfliktpotential in der Ukraine', Ethnos/Nation, 4, 1996, No.1-<br />
2, pp. 21-36.<br />
• 'The Crimean Issue', Journal <strong>of</strong> Communist Studies and Transition Politics, Vol.12, No.1,<br />
March 1996, pp. 83-100.<br />
• 'Die Rückkehrbewegung der Krimtataren', Osteuropa , April 1995, pp. 338-348.<br />
BOOK CHAPTERS:<br />
• 'Conditionality-lite: The European Neighbourhood Policy and <strong>the</strong> EU's Eastern Neighbours',<br />
in: Costanza Musu and Nicola Casarini (eds), The Road to Convergence: European Foreign<br />
Policy in an Evolving International System, Basingstoke: Palgrave, forthcoming summer<br />
2007.<br />
• 'The Political Rights <strong>of</strong> National Minorities: Lessons from Central and Eastern Europe', in:<br />
Wojciech Sadurski (ed), Political Rights under Stress in 21st Century Europe, Oxford: Oxford<br />
University Press (Academy <strong>of</strong> European Law Series), 2007, pp. 239-282.<br />
• 'National Minorities and EU Enlargement: External or Domestic Incentives for<br />
Accommodation?', in John McGarry and Michael Keating (eds), European Integration and <strong>the</strong><br />
Nationalities Question, London: Routledge, 2006, pp. 64-84.<br />
• 'Sub-National Governance in Central and Eastern Europe: Between Transition and<br />
Enlargement', in Wojciech Sadurski et al. (eds), Spreading Democracy and <strong>the</strong> Rule <strong>of</strong> Law?<br />
The Impact <strong>of</strong> EU Enlargement on <strong>the</strong> Rule <strong>of</strong> Law, Democracy and Constitutionalism in<br />
Postcommunist Legal Orders, Springer, 2006, pp. 121-47 (with James Hughes and Claire<br />
Gordon).<br />
• 'Minority Rights and EU Enlargement: Normative Overstretch or Effective Conditionality',<br />
chapter in Gabriel von Toggenburg (ed), Minority Protection and <strong>the</strong> EU: The Way Forward,<br />
Budapest: LGI, Open Society Institute, 2004, pp. 61-84.<br />
• 'EU Enlargement, Europeanisation and <strong>the</strong> Dynamics <strong>of</strong> Regionalisation in <strong>the</strong> CEECs', in<br />
Michael Keating and James Hughes (eds), The Regional Challenge in Central and Eastern<br />
Europe: Territorial and European Integration, Brussels: Peter Lang, 2003, pp. 69-88 (with<br />
James Hughes and Claire Gordon).<br />
• 'Die Autonome Republik der Krim zwischen Einheitsstaat und Separatismus', in: Gerd Simon<br />
(ed.), Die neue Ukraine. Gesellschaft - Wirtschaft - Politik (1991-2001), Köln: Böhlau Verlag,<br />
2002, pp. 127-47.
• 'The EU Common Strategy on Ukraine: A Response to Ukraine's "pro-European choice"?', in<br />
Ann Lewis (ed.), The EU and Ukraine. Neighbours, <strong>Friends</strong>, Partners?, London: Federal<br />
Trust, 2002, pp. 213-21.<br />
• 'Enlargement and Regionalisation: The Europeanization <strong>of</strong> Local and Regional Governance in<br />
Central and Eastern Europe', in: Helen Wallace (ed.), Interlocking Dimensions <strong>of</strong> European<br />
Integration, Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001, pp. 145-78 (with James Hughes and Claire Gordon).<br />
• 'Constitution-Making from above and from below: Crimea's Regional Autonomy', in The<strong>of</strong>il<br />
Kis (ed.), Towards a New Ukraine. Meeting <strong>the</strong> Next Century, University <strong>of</strong> Ottawa, 1999,<br />
pp. 83-102.<br />
POLICY PAPERS AND NEWSPAPER ARTICLES:<br />
• 'EU Conditionality and Minority Rights: Translating <strong>the</strong> Copenhagen Criterion into Policy',<br />
EUI Working Paper No. 2005/16, European University Institute, Robert Schuman Centre for<br />
Advanced Studies, Florence (http://ideas.repec.org/p/erp/euirsc/p0154.html).<br />
• 'Where did it all go wrong?', The Guardian Unlimited, 4 August, 2006<br />
(http://www.guardian.co.uk/ukraine/story/0,,1837596,00.html);<br />
• 'The future's still orange', The Guardian Unlimited, 27 April 2006<br />
(http://www.guardian.co.uk/ukraine/story/0,,1740833,00.html);<br />
• 'Ukraine at <strong>the</strong> brink <strong>of</strong> a break-up?', The Guardian Unlimited, 30 November 2004<br />
(http://www.guardian.co.uk/ukraine/story/0,,1362721,00.html);<br />
• 'So near yet so far…', The Guardian Unlimited, 6 December 2004<br />
(http://www.guardian.co.uk/ukraine/story/0,,1367723,00.html)<br />
• 'Minority Rights in Europe: A New Policy Push from Central and Eastern Europe?', EUI<br />
Review, European University Institute, Florence, Winter 2003, pp. 18-9.<br />
• 'EU Enlargement and Power Asymmetries: Conditionality and <strong>the</strong> Commission's Role in<br />
Regionalisation in Central and Eastern Europe', ESRC Research Programme on One Europe<br />
or Several?, Working Paper 49/03, May 2003 (with James Hughes and Claire Gordon).<br />
• 'Minority Rights in Europe: A New Policy Push from Central and Eastern Europe?', European<br />
University Institute Review, Winter 2003, pp. 18-19.<br />
• 'Power to <strong>the</strong> Regions: Making EU Enlargement Work', in: Issues for <strong>the</strong> Transition<br />
Economies, The EBRD Annual Meeting and Business Forum, Bucharest, 19-20 May 2002,<br />
pp. 46-48.<br />
• 'The Regional Deficit in Eastward Enlargement <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> European Union: Top Down Policies<br />
and Bottom Up Reactions', ESRC Research Programme on One Europe or Several?, Working<br />
Paper 29/2001 (with James Hughes and Claire Gordon).<br />
• Contributor to 'Ukraine: <strong>the</strong> Presidential Elections and <strong>the</strong> Implications for Europe', Briefing<br />
Note 1/99, October 1999 (ESRC Programme 'One Europe or Several?').<br />
• 'Fuelling Nation-State Building: Ukraine's Energy Dependence on Russia', Chatham House<br />
Briefing Paper, No. 17, April 1998, pp. 1-8.<br />
• 'NATO Enlargement and Ukraine', Basic Papers: Occasional Papers on International Security<br />
Issues , 11 April 1996, No.16, pp. 1-6.<br />
REVIEWS:<br />
<strong>Gwendolyn</strong> has reviewed books for:<br />
• Political Studies,<br />
• West European Politics,<br />
• Millennium,<br />
• International Affairs,<br />
• Europe-Asia Studies,<br />
• Nations and Nationalism,<br />
• Slavic Review,<br />
• Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung;<br />
• articles for Nations and Nationalism,<br />
• Nationalism and Ethnic Politics,<br />
• Regional and Federal Studies etc;<br />
• Project applications for <strong>the</strong> ESRC and <strong>the</strong> British Academy.<br />
IV. CONTACT<br />
Nuffield College,<br />
University <strong>of</strong> Oxford,<br />
OX1 1NF<br />
E-mail: <strong>Gwendolyn</strong>.<strong>Sasse</strong> [at] nuffield.ox.ac.uk