Maria Kontos
Biographic Data
| ID | 1266360 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maria Kontos |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maria |
| FAMILY NAME | Kontos |
| SIGNATURE | KONTOS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Goethe University Frankfurt |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0718-1145 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Global Power Impact on the Middle East Region: The Abraham Accords and the Changing International System
This article examines the Abraham Accords as an evolving diplomatic and strategic process shaped by renewed great power competition in the Middle East. Using structural realism, balance-of-power theory, soft balancing, and the security spiral as analytical lenses, it argues that the Accords emerged from the redistribution of power following the erosion of US regional hegemony and Washington’s shift toward a lighter, partner-enabled posture. The s…
Adaptation and transition: The impact of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Cypriot-Russian relations
The impact of the Ukraine war on EU member states’ foreign policy and civil society, given the Union’s severe measures against Russia, requires rigorous academic attention. Cyprus is a special case because of its multifaceted ties with Russia, which have been mainly developed upon three pillars: economic, diplomatic, and cultural/religious. Since 2018, systemic developments stemming from Western reaction to the annexation of Crimea have undermine…
US foreign and security policy in contemporary Eastern Mediterranean: The return of great power politics in a changing regional environment
Reckoning with 'new' Turkey: Modes of US reaction to unwanted policy shifts in the Middle East
This article discusses the changing relations between the United States and Turkey in light of Turkey's contemporary foreign policy that often challenges American interests. More specifically, it adopts a comparative approach to examine the variables that determine the course of US reaction when unwanted policy shifts take place in the Middle East. To this end, apart from Turkey, the article examines two more cases: US relations with Egypt in the…
Die desintegrativen Folgen des öffentlichen Integrationsdiskurses: Eine biographieanalytische Untersuchung mit Migrantinnen und Migranten
Vor zehn Jahren schürten Thilo Sarrazins Thesen die Debatte um die Integration von MigrantInnen. Anhand von biographischen Fallanalysen untersucht die Autorin die Effekte der Integrationsdebatte auf das Selbstverständnis von MigrantInnen und zeigt, dass die Erfahrung der Integrationsdebatte als Missachtung die Rückbildung von fortgeschrittenen Integrationsprozessen in der Migrationsgesellschaft zur Folge hat. Die Studie geht davon aus, [...]
Die desintegrativen Folgen des öffentlichen Integrationsdiskurses: Eine biographieanalytische Untersuchung mit Migrantinnen und Migranten
Migrant Domestic Workers and Family Life: International Perspectives
This timely and innovative book delivers a comprehensive analysis of the non-recognition of the right to a family life of migrant live-in domestic and care workers in Argentina, Canada, Germany, Italy
Restrictive Integration Policies and the Construction of the Migrant as ‘Unwilling to Integrate’: The Case of Germany
Since the middle of the last decade, the notion of ‘migrants being unwilling to integrate’ (Integrationsunwillig) - and sometimes, in a more active form, of ‘migrants refusing to integrate’ (Integrationsverweigernd) - has increasingly come into focus in migration and integration debates in Germany. Pointing to the commitment of migrants to cultural val- ues that might be contradictory to values in the receiving society — for instance, gender equa…
Negotiating the Social Citizenship Rights of Migrant Domestic Workers: The Right to Family Reunification and a Family Life in Policies and Debates
This paper discusses the right of migrant live-in, 24-hour-care, domestic workers to a family life, particularly in relation to recent efforts to strengthen their rights. My argument is that national and EU policies that tolerate the irregular work situation of migrant domestic workers are a functional response to the specific intersection of family and paid work in this field. The familialisation of work implies the defamilialisation of the work…
Self-Employment Activities of Women and Minorities
This volume summarizes some results of the trans-national European research project „Self-employment activities concerning women and minorities: their success or failure in relation to social citizens
Self-employment activities of women and minorities: Their Success or Failure in Relation to Social Citizenship Policies
Self-Employment Activities of Women and Minorities: Their Success or Failure in Relation to Social Citizenship Policies
Sammenlignende overvejelser over kodifikationsmetoden i Grounded Theory og i den biografiske metode
Comparative considerations about the codification procedures in Grounded Theory and in the biographical method. The interest for biographical research in Europe has grown rapidly in the last years. The richness of dissertations that have been completed with the help of biographical methods stands against relatively few contributions about the methods and their rules though. Moreover there are several varieties of the biographical method. In this …
Self-employment, Gender and Migration
Considering the Concept of Entrepreneurial Resources in Ethnic Business: Motivation as a Biographical Resource
After many European countries introduced policies supporting self-employment in the 1980s, many migrants were not as successful as their native counterparts. The resources underlying policies for business starters are analyzed and existing assumptions about resources needed for entrepreneurial activity are challenged. The conception of resources underlying policy implementation has been based on a self-employment model of mainly native male entre…
Self-employment, Gender and Migration
Considering the Concept of Entrepreneurial Resources in Ethnic Business: Motivation as a Biographical Resource
After many European countries introduced policies supporting self-employment in the 1980s, many migrants were not as successful as their native counterparts. The resources underlying policies for business starters are analyzed and existing assumptions about resources needed for entrepreneurial activity are challenged. The conception of resources underlying policy implementation has been based on a self-employment model of mainly native male entre…
Negotiating the Social Citizenship Rights of Migrant Domestic Workers: The Right to Family Reunification and a Family Life in Policies and Debates
This paper discusses the right of migrant live-in, 24-hour-care, domestic workers to a family life, particularly in relation to recent efforts to strengthen their rights. My argument is that national and EU policies that tolerate the irregular work situation of migrant domestic workers are a functional response to the specific intersection of family and paid work in this field. The familialisation of work implies the defamilialisation of the work…
Self-employment, Gender and Migration
Considering the Concept of Entrepreneurial Resources in Ethnic Business: Motivation as a Biographical Resource
After many European countries introduced policies supporting self-employment in the 1980s, many migrants were not as successful as their native counterparts. The resources underlying policies for business starters are analyzed and existing assumptions about resources needed for entrepreneurial activity are challenged. The conception of resources underlying policy implementation has been based on a self-employment model of mainly native male entre…
Sammenlignende overvejelser over kodifikationsmetoden i Grounded Theory og i den biografiske metode
Comparative considerations about the codification procedures in Grounded Theory and in the biographical method. The interest for biographical research in Europe has grown rapidly in the last years. The richness of dissertations that have been completed with the help of biographical methods stands against relatively few contributions about the methods and their rules though. Moreover there are several varieties of the biographical method. In this …
Self-Employment Activities of Women and Minorities
This volume summarizes some results of the trans-national European research project „Self-employment activities concerning women and minorities: their success or failure in relation to social citizens
Self-employment activities of women and minorities: Their Success or Failure in Relation to Social Citizenship Policies
Self-Employment Activities of Women and Minorities: Their Success or Failure in Relation to Social Citizenship Policies
Negotiating the Social Citizenship Rights of Migrant Domestic Workers: The Right to Family Reunification and a Family Life in Policies and Debates
This paper discusses the right of migrant live-in, 24-hour-care, domestic workers to a family life, particularly in relation to recent efforts to strengthen their rights. My argument is that national and EU policies that tolerate the irregular work situation of migrant domestic workers are a functional response to the specific intersection of family and paid work in this field. The familialisation of work implies the defamilialisation of the work…
Restrictive Integration Policies and the Construction of the Migrant as ‘Unwilling to Integrate’: The Case of Germany
Since the middle of the last decade, the notion of ‘migrants being unwilling to integrate’ (Integrationsunwillig) - and sometimes, in a more active form, of ‘migrants refusing to integrate’ (Integrationsverweigernd) - has increasingly come into focus in migration and integration debates in Germany. Pointing to the commitment of migrants to cultural val- ues that might be contradictory to values in the receiving society — for instance, gender equa…
Migrant Domestic Workers and Family Life: International Perspectives
This timely and innovative book delivers a comprehensive analysis of the non-recognition of the right to a family life of migrant live-in domestic and care workers in Argentina, Canada, Germany, Italy
Die desintegrativen Folgen des öffentlichen Integrationsdiskurses: Eine biographieanalytische Untersuchung mit Migrantinnen und Migranten
Vor zehn Jahren schürten Thilo Sarrazins Thesen die Debatte um die Integration von MigrantInnen. Anhand von biographischen Fallanalysen untersucht die Autorin die Effekte der Integrationsdebatte auf das Selbstverständnis von MigrantInnen und zeigt, dass die Erfahrung der Integrationsdebatte als Missachtung die Rückbildung von fortgeschrittenen Integrationsprozessen in der Migrationsgesellschaft zur Folge hat. Die Studie geht davon aus, [...]
Die desintegrativen Folgen des öffentlichen Integrationsdiskurses: Eine biographieanalytische Untersuchung mit Migrantinnen und Migranten
US foreign and security policy in contemporary Eastern Mediterranean: The return of great power politics in a changing regional environment
Reckoning with 'new' Turkey: Modes of US reaction to unwanted policy shifts in the Middle East
This article discusses the changing relations between the United States and Turkey in light of Turkey's contemporary foreign policy that often challenges American interests. More specifically, it adopts a comparative approach to examine the variables that determine the course of US reaction when unwanted policy shifts take place in the Middle East. To this end, apart from Turkey, the article examines two more cases: US relations with Egypt in the…
Adaptation and transition: The impact of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Cypriot-Russian relations
The impact of the Ukraine war on EU member states’ foreign policy and civil society, given the Union’s severe measures against Russia, requires rigorous academic attention. Cyprus is a special case because of its multifaceted ties with Russia, which have been mainly developed upon three pillars: economic, diplomatic, and cultural/religious. Since 2018, systemic developments stemming from Western reaction to the annexation of Crimea have undermine…
Global Power Impact on the Middle East Region: The Abraham Accords and the Changing International System
This article examines the Abraham Accords as an evolving diplomatic and strategic process shaped by renewed great power competition in the Middle East. Using structural realism, balance-of-power theory, soft balancing, and the security spiral as analytical lenses, it argues that the Accords emerged from the redistribution of power following the erosion of US regional hegemony and Washington’s shift toward a lighter, partner-enabled posture. The s…
Political science (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Economics (8 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Demographic economics (4 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Political economy (4 works)