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).
• '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.
• 'Integration mit Tiefgang? Regionalisierung in Ungarn und Polen', Osteuropa, Vol. 54, No. 5-6, 2004, pp. 180-194 (with James Hughes).
• 'Conditionality and Compliance in the EU's Eastward Enlargement: Regional Policy and the Reform of Sub-national Governance', Journal of Common Market Studies, 42, 3, 2004, pp. 523-51 (with James Hughes and Claire Gordon).
• 'Monitoring the Monitors: EU Enlargement and National Minorities in Central and Eastern Europe', Journal of Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe, 1, 2003,pp.1-38 (with James Hughes).
• 'Conflict-Prevention in a Transition State: The Crimean Issue in Post-Soviet Ukraine', Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Vol. 8, No. 2, 2002, pp. 1-26.
• 'Saying 'Maybe' to the 'Return to Europe': Elites and the Political Space for Euroscepticism in Central and Eastern Europe', European Union Politics, Vol. 3, No. 3, 2002, pp. 327-355 (with James Hughes and Claire Gordon).
• 'From Plan to Network: Urban Elites and the Postcommunist Organizational State in Russia', European Journal of Political Research, Vol. 41, No. 3, May 2002, pp. 395-420 (with James Hughes and Peter John).
• 'Comparing Regional and Ethnic Conflicts in Post-Soviet Transition States' and 'Conflict and Accommodation in the FSU: The Role of Institutions and Regimes', Regional and Federal Studies, Special Issue, Vol. 11, No. 3, Autumn 2001, pp. 1-35 and pp. 220-240 (with James Hughes), also published as introduction and conclusion in James Hughes and Gwendolyn Sasse (eds), Ethnicity and Territory in the FSU: Regions in Conflict, London: Frank Cass, 2001.
• 'The "New" Ukraine: A State of Regions', in Regional and Federal Studies, Vol. 11, No. 3, 2001, pp. 69-100.
• 'Die Krim - Regionale Vielfalt im Spannungsfeld der Geschichte', Österreichische Osthefte, Vol. 42, No. 3-4, 2000, pp. 437-456.
• 'Die Krim: Regionale Autonomie in der Ukraine', Berichte des Bundesinstituts für ostwissenschaftliche Studien, 31, 1998 (39pp.)
• 'Die Krimtataren - Ethnisches Konfliktpotential in der Ukraine', Ethnos/Nation, 4, 1996, No.1-2, pp. 21-36.
• 'The Crimean Issue', Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, Vol.12, No.1, March 1996, pp. 83-100.
• 'Die Rückkehrbewegung der Krimtataren', Osteuropa , April 1995, pp. 338-348.

BOOK CHAPTERS:

• 'Conditionality-lite: The European Neighbourhood Policy and the EU's Eastern Neighbours', in: Costanza Musu and Nicola Casarini (eds), The Road to Convergence: European Foreign Policy in an Evolving International System, Basingstoke: Palgrave, forthcoming summer 2007.
• 'The Political Rights of National Minorities: Lessons from Central and Eastern Europe', in: Wojciech Sadurski (ed), Political Rights under Stress in 21st Century Europe, Oxford: Oxford University Press (Academy of European Law Series), 2007, pp. 239-282.
• 'National Minorities and EU Enlargement: External or Domestic Incentives for Accommodation?', in John McGarry and Michael Keating (eds), European Integration and the Nationalities Question, London: Routledge, 2006, pp. 64-84.
• 'Sub-National Governance in Central and Eastern Europe: Between Transition and Enlargement', in Wojciech Sadurski et al. (eds), Spreading Democracy and the Rule of Law? The Impact of EU Enlargement on the Rule of Law, Democracy and Constitutionalism in Postcommunist Legal Orders, Springer, 2006, pp. 121-47 (with James Hughes and Claire Gordon).
• 'Minority Rights and EU Enlargement: Normative Overstretch or Effective Conditionality', chapter in Gabriel von Toggenburg (ed), Minority Protection and the EU: The Way Forward, Budapest: LGI, Open Society Institute, 2004, pp. 61-84.
• 'EU Enlargement, Europeanisation and the Dynamics of Regionalisation in the CEECs', in Michael Keating and James Hughes (eds), The Regional Challenge in Central and Eastern Europe: Territorial and European Integration, Brussels: Peter Lang, 2003, pp. 69-88 (with James Hughes and Claire Gordon).
• 'Die Autonome Republik der Krim zwischen Einheitsstaat und Separatismus', in: Gerd Simon (ed.), Die neue Ukraine. Gesellschaft - Wirtschaft - Politik (1991-2001), Köln: Böhlau Verlag, 2002, pp. 127-47.
• 'The EU Common Strategy on Ukraine: A Response to Ukraine's "pro-European choice"?', in Ann Lewis (ed.), The EU and Ukraine. Neighbours, Friends, Partners?, London: Federal Trust, 2002, pp. 213-21.
• 'Enlargement and Regionalisation: The Europeanization of Local and Regional Governance in Central and Eastern Europe', in: Helen Wallace (ed.), Interlocking Dimensions of European Integration, Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001, pp. 145-78 (with James Hughes and Claire Gordon).
• 'Constitution-Making from above and from below: Crimea's Regional Autonomy', in Theofil Kis (ed.), Towards a New Ukraine. Meeting the Next Century, University of Ottawa, 1999, pp. 83-102.

POLICY PAPERS AND NEWSPAPER ARTICLES:

• 'EU Conditionality and Minority Rights: Translating the Copenhagen Criterion into Policy', EUI Working Paper No. 2005/16, European University Institute, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, Florence (http://ideas.repec.org/p/erp/euirsc/p0154.html).
• 'Where did it all go wrong?', The Guardian Unlimited, 4 August, 2006 (http://www.guardian.co.uk/ukraine/story/0,,1837596,00.html);
• 'The future's still orange', The Guardian Unlimited, 27 April 2006 (http://www.guardian.co.uk/ukraine/story/0,,1740833,00.html);
• 'Ukraine at the brink of a break-up?', The Guardian Unlimited, 30 November 2004 (http://www.guardian.co.uk/ukraine/story/0,,1362721,00.html);
• 'So near yet so far…', The Guardian Unlimited, 6 December 2004 (http://www.guardian.co.uk/ukraine/story/0,,1367723,00.html)
• 'Minority Rights in Europe: A New Policy Push from Central and Eastern Europe?', EUI Review, European University Institute, Florence, Winter 2003, pp. 18-9.
• 'EU Enlargement and Power Asymmetries: Conditionality and the Commission's Role in Regionalisation in Central and Eastern Europe', ESRC Research Programme on One Europe or Several?, Working Paper 49/03, May 2003 (with James Hughes and Claire Gordon).
• 'Minority Rights in Europe: A New Policy Push from Central and Eastern Europe?', European University Institute Review, Winter 2003, pp. 18-19.
• 'Power to the Regions: Making EU Enlargement Work', in: Issues for the Transition Economies, The EBRD Annual Meeting and Business Forum, Bucharest, 19-20 May 2002, pp. 46-48.
• 'The Regional Deficit in Eastward Enlargement of the European Union: Top Down Policies and Bottom Up Reactions', ESRC Research Programme on One Europe or Several?, Working Paper 29/2001 (with James Hughes and Claire Gordon).
• Contributor to 'Ukraine: the Presidential Elections and the Implications for Europe', Briefing Note 1/99, October 1999 (ESRC Programme 'One Europe or Several?').
• 'Fuelling Nation-State Building: Ukraine's Energy Dependence on Russia', Chatham House Briefing Paper, No. 17, April 1998, pp. 1-8.
• 'NATO Enlargement and Ukraine', Basic Papers: Occasional Papers on International Security Issues , 11 April 1996, No.16, pp. 1-6.

REVIEWS:

Gwendolyn has reviewed books for:

• Political Studies,
• West European Politics,
• Millennium,
• International Affairs,
• Europe-Asia Studies,
• Nations and Nationalism,
• Slavic Review,
• Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung;
• articles for Nations and Nationalism,
• Nationalism and Ethnic Politics,
• Regional and Federal Studies etc;
• Project applications for the ESRC and the British Academy.

IV. CONTACT

Nuffield College,
University of Oxford,
OX1 1NF

E-mail: Gwendolyn.Sasse [at] nuffield.ox.ac.uk