Gwendolyn Sasse
Biographic Data
| ID | 368727 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gwendolyn Sasse |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gwendolyn |
| FAMILY NAME | Sasse |
| SIGNATURE | SASSE G |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6254-3949 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 50 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 804 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 50 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
An der Schnittstelle: Wissenschaft und Öffentlichkeit. Eine Reflexion. Academia and the Public. Reflections
What Political Status Did the Donbas Want? Survey Evidence on the Eve of Russia's Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine in February 2022
This article reports original survey data collected in both parts of the divided Donbas region of Ukraine on the eve of Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022. The research employs a methodological innovation by having the same telephone survey implemented by three different survey agencies: one based in Ukraine, one based in Russia, and one based in the UK. Comparing similarities and differences in results identify key effects induced by …
Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine: One Year On
The Dynamics of Mass Mobilization in Belarus
How can and should we analyze mass mobilization and its outcomes in authoritarian (and potentially democratizing) states as social scientists? Are there any distinctive features to the study of mass mobilization and its outcomes in Eastern Europe? And how much should we focus on comparative analyses versus context and country specificities? The case of the 2020 mass mobilization in Belarus offers an opportunity to engage with and answer these que…
Flowers, Tractors, & Telegram: Who are the Protesters in Belarus?: A Survey Based Assessment of Anti-Lukashenka Protest Participants
Who are the people who, in the face of extreme repression, unexpectedly take to the streets en masse in an authoritarian state? This article aims to answer this question with reference to the case of the Belarusian anti-Lukashenka mass mobilization of 2020. It employs unique data from an original online protest survey among citizens of Belarus who were 18 or older and residing in the country at the time of the protests (Onuch et. al.; MOBILISE 20…
Russlands Krieg gegen die Ukraine: Faktoren, Ursachen, Dynamik. Factors, Causes, Dynamics
Wars do not fall from the sky. They have a pre-history. The constellation for a conflict consists of various factors involving domestic politics, foreign policy, and international relations. In the case of Russia’s war on Ukraine, the Putin regime’s radicalization into autocracy and its dissociation from the West combined with Ukraine’s simultaneous democratisation and increasingly Western orientation are the central factors that explain the conf…
Russia’s War against Ukraine: A Trio of Virtual Special Issues
Transnational Links and Political Attitudes: Young People in Russia
Political attitudes are generally analysed within the context of a given nation-state, even if they reflect responses to regional or global developments. Little attention has been paid to the potentially moderating role of personal transnational experiences (travel, migration, remittances) on individual attitudes. Based on two cross-sectional online surveys conducted in 15 cities across Russia in 2018 and 2019, this essay assesses the extent to w…
Russian Neo-Imperialism: Official Discourse and Domestic Legitimation
The Belarus crisis: People, Protest, and Political Dispositions
His symposium employs established social science theory to frame and place into comparative perspective the case of Belarusian mass mobilization that began in August 2020. We not only argue and explain how this is a case of mass mobilization that occurred in a competitive authoritarian context, but also that is a far more “typical” example (rather than an outlier) of protest mobilization occurring in political repressive contexts. We propose both…
Anti-regime action and geopolitical polarization: Understanding protester dispositions in Belarus
Do geopolitical orientations distinguish anti-Lukashenka protesters from non-protesters in Belarus? Employing data from an original online protest survey among 18+year-old citizens of Belarus residing in the country (MOBILISE 2020, n= 17, 174) fielded 18August2020–29January2021, this paper compares protesters (n = 11, 719) to non-protesters (n = 5, 455) to better understand the dispositions that distinguish them. First, our logistic regression an…
War and Displacement: The Case of Ukraine
Displacement can take many different forms. Beyond the local specificities of each case, there are also distinctive legal categories capturing different dynamics. UNHCR started recording the figure
The Displaced as ‘Ordinary Citizens’: Exploring Variation in the Political Attitudes of the Displaced from Donbas
Based on original survey data, this essay analyses the political attitudes of individuals displaced by the war in eastern Ukraine. We systematically compare attitudinal differences and similarities along three axes: the displaced relative to the resident population; the displaced in Ukraine relative to the displaced in Russia; and the displaced from the (non-)government-controlled areas relative to the resident population in the (non-)government-…
Language, locality, and transnational belonging: Remitting the Everyday Practice of Cultural Integration
This article explores how ‘ordinary’ German migrants in the United States reflected upon their local integration and transnational belonging with reference to their language practice in the period 1820–1970. The analysis is based on approximately 8,000 letters sent by around 700 German-speaking migrants who wrote, over varying time periods, to family members and friends still living in their places of origin. These letters provide insights into t…
Migrantische Netzwerke und Integration: Das transnationale Kommunikationsfeld deutscher Einwandererfamilien in den USA
Basierend auf einer Sammlung von 1000 Briefen deutscher Auswanderer in den USA analysiert dieser Aufsatz die Entwicklung und Bedeutung transatlantischer und deutsch-amerikanischer migrantischer Netzwerke über einen Zeitraum von 150 Jahren. Wir unterscheiden zwischen „starken“ und „schwachen“ Beziehungen, die diesen Netzwerken zugrunde liegen, und untersuchen die politischen Faktoren, die die verschiedenen Formen von Netzwerken prägen. Unsere Stud…
The simultaneity of feeling German and being American: Analyzing 150 years of private migrant correspondence
Analyzing the long-term dynamics of migrant integration is a significant challenge for researchers. This paper traces how ‘ordinary’ German-speaking migrants in the USA expressed their sense of participation and belonging throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries in the letters they wrote to their families ‘back home.’ We study a large collection of migrant letters written by German-speaking immigrants in the USA between 1830 and 1970 and anal…
Studying identity in Ukraine
While it is common wisdom that "identity matters" in Ukrainian politics, we still lack a robust understanding of precisely when and how it matters.Reflecting challenges facing the broader interdisciplinary field of comparative identity politics, authors frequently bring to their analyses very different notions of the nature of identity itself, skipping a rigorous examination of these notions in an effort to get right to documenting the effects of…
War and identity: The case of the Donbas in Ukraine
The study of identities struggles to capture the moments and dynamics of identity change. A crisis moment provides a rare insight into such processes. This paper traces the political identities of the inhabitants of a region at war – the Donbas – on the basis of original survey data that cover the four parts of the population that once made up this region: the population of the Kyiv-controlled Donbas, the population of the self-declared “Donetsk …
Integration and Identities: The Effects of Time, Migrant Networks, and Political Crises on Germans in the United States
This article offers the first large-scale analysis of the interlinked dynamics of integration and belonging based on perceptions of 'ordinary' German-speaking migrants in the United States in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Our analysis draws on a corpus of over a thousand letters from the North American Letter Collection held at the Forschungsbibliothek Gotha in Germany. Through computer-assisted text analysis, framed by research on tran…
Empowering to engage with the homeland: Do migration experience and environment foster political remittances
This article investigates the drivers and mechanisms of emigrants’ electoral and nonelectoral political engagement with their homeland. Our analysis concentrates on the diverse experiences of Polish migrants in the UK. By utilizing original mixed-method data, including a large-N survey of Polish migrant voters across the UK, in-depth interviews with Polish migrants in the UK, and matched interviews with their family members and friends in Poland,…
The Maidan in Movement: Diversity and the Cycles of Protest
The Maidan protests provide us with insights into Ukrainian society and the dynamics of mobilisation more generally. Based on the EuroMaidan Protest Participant Survey, on-site rapid interviews with protesters, interviews with politicians, activists and journalists, and focus groups with ordinary citizens and activists, this essay maps the actors, claims and frames of each phase in the protest cycle. It highlights the diversity of actors and the …
International linkages and the dynamics of conflict: Revisiting the post-Soviet conflicts
The violent post-Soviet conflicts that erupted during and immediately after the collapse of the USSR have experienced very different conflict dynamics. Some, such as Nagorny Karabakh, Transnistria
Power ideas and conflict: Ideology, linkage and leverage in Crimea and Chechnya
In this article, we not only extend the concept of linkages and leverage to the realm of conflict studies, we also add an important linkage – ideas about political power which we call power ideas – and we expand on the causal mechanisms that turns linkages into leverage in a conflict situation. We examine the impact of the power ideas of nationalism and Islamism in the cases of two major conflicts in the region: Crimea and Chechnya. Within-case c…
A Voice Despite Exit: The Role of Assimilation, Emigrant Networks, and Destination in Emigrants’ Transnational Political Engagement
What explains varying levels of emigrant transnational engagement in home-country politics? The well-known difficulties in obtaining migrant profile data and restriction to a few destination countries have resulted in a lack of systematic empirical investigation of this question. We expand nascent efforts to fill this gap by offering a new theoretical framework and novel research design that stress the potential importance of destination characte…
Migrants' regional allegiances in homeland elections: Evidence on voting by Poles and Ukrainians
We examine the salience among migrants of a pervasive type of political identity neglected in the interdisciplinary scholarship on transnationalism and migrant political behaviour—homeland regional identities. Using migrants' regional background in their homelands as a proxy for their regional political identities, we estimate its effect on migrants' vote choice in homeland elections using original survey data on Polish and Ukrainian migrants. Co…
Europeanization and Regionalization in the EU’s Enlargement to Central and Eastern Europe: The Myth of Conditionality
This book is a study of EU conditionality and compliance during the enlargement to the Central and Eastern European candidate countries. EU conditionality for membership is widely understood as having
The politics of EU conditionality: The norm of minority protection during and beyond EU accession
The norm of minority protection is often singled out as a prime example of the political impact of European Union (EU) conditionality on the ethnically diverse states of Central and Eastern Europe. The EU's 'minority condition' is best understood as a political and social construct rooted in European security concerns. As such, it has had very 'real' effects, both intended and unintended, and direct and indirect. This article extends the study of…
War and identity: The case of the Donbas in Ukraine
The study of identities struggles to capture the moments and dynamics of identity change. A crisis moment provides a rare insight into such processes. This paper traces the political identities of the inhabitants of a region at war – the Donbas – on the basis of original survey data that cover the four parts of the population that once made up this region: the population of the Kyiv-controlled Donbas, the population of the self-declared “Donetsk …
The European Neighbourhood Policy: Conditionality Revisited for the EU's Eastern Neighbours
The European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) is modelled on the institutional and procedural experience of the EU's eastward enlargement, although it explicitly excludes a membership perspective. It thus aims to define an alternative incentive for domestic reform in neighbouring countries, referred to as ‘a stake in the internal market’. This article suggests that the ENP amounts to a form of ‘conditionality-lite’ for non-candidate countries. Within t…
The Maidan in Movement: Diversity and the Cycles of Protest
The Maidan protests provide us with insights into Ukrainian society and the dynamics of mobilisation more generally. Based on the EuroMaidan Protest Participant Survey, on-site rapid interviews with protesters, interviews with politicians, activists and journalists, and focus groups with ordinary citizens and activists, this essay maps the actors, claims and frames of each phase in the protest cycle. It highlights the diversity of actors and the …
A Voice Despite Exit: The Role of Assimilation, Emigrant Networks, and Destination in Emigrants’ Transnational Political Engagement
What explains varying levels of emigrant transnational engagement in home-country politics? The well-known difficulties in obtaining migrant profile data and restriction to a few destination countries have resulted in a lack of systematic empirical investigation of this question. We expand nascent efforts to fill this gap by offering a new theoretical framework and novel research design that stress the potential importance of destination characte…
Securitization or Securing Rights? Exploring the Conceptual Foundations of Policies towards Minorities and Migrants in Europe
Minority and migration issues tend to be framed either in terms of security and control or rights. Rather than lamenting the securitization of these issues in the academic and policy debate and advocating a focus on rights as an alternative, this article calls for the re-conceptualization in terms of a ‘security-rights nexus’. It is argued here that minority and migration issues and their conceptual interlock have a clear security dimension, but …
Linkages and the promotion of democracy: The EU's eastern neighbourhood
The EU's eastern neighbourhood with its considerable divergence in regime types is a more challenging testing ground for democracy promotion than Central and Eastern Europe. This article explores the diversity of the international linkages in the eastern neighbours (Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan) and the role these linkages play in domestic politics. International linkages are filtered and activated by domestic politics. If diver…
Studying identity in Ukraine
While it is common wisdom that "identity matters" in Ukrainian politics, we still lack a robust understanding of precisely when and how it matters.Reflecting challenges facing the broader interdisciplinary field of comparative identity politics, authors frequently bring to their analyses very different notions of the nature of identity itself, skipping a rigorous examination of these notions in an effort to get right to documenting the effects of…
Ukraine: The Role of Regionalism
Although Ukraine’s regional divisions are often thought to be detrimental to state-building and democratization, they have in fact been a source of strength and helped to prevent tilts to the political extremes
Conditionality and Compliance in the EU's Eastward Enlargement: Regional Policy and the Reform of Sub‐national Government
Studies of EU conditionality assume one basic premise: that it exists and works because there is a power asymmetry which enables the Commission to impose the adoption of the acquis on the CEECs as a precondition of their entry to the Union. Thus this literature posits that there are clear causal relationships in the use of conditionality to ensure policy or institutional outcomes. Existing studies of enlargement conditionality analyse its correla…
Saying `Maybe' to the `Return to Europe: Elites and the Political Space for Euroscepticism in Central and Eastern Europe
A major challenge for EU enlargement is how to communicate the benefits of membership to electorates. Given the weak penetration of party systems in the Central and East European countries, subnational elites have an important role in shaping voter preferences. Attitudes among subnational elites to EU enlargement are examined in three leading candidate countries in Central and Eastern Europe: Hungary, Slovenia, and Estonia. The results are based …
The Belarus crisis: People, Protest, and Political Dispositions
His symposium employs established social science theory to frame and place into comparative perspective the case of Belarusian mass mobilization that began in August 2020. We not only argue and explain how this is a case of mass mobilization that occurred in a competitive authoritarian context, but also that is a far more “typical” example (rather than an outlier) of protest mobilization occurring in political repressive contexts. We propose both…
Anti-regime action and geopolitical polarization: Understanding protester dispositions in Belarus
Do geopolitical orientations distinguish anti-Lukashenka protesters from non-protesters in Belarus? Employing data from an original online protest survey among 18+year-old citizens of Belarus residing in the country (MOBILISE 2020, n= 17, 174) fielded 18August2020–29January2021, this paper compares protesters (n = 11, 719) to non-protesters (n = 5, 455) to better understand the dispositions that distinguish them. First, our logistic regression an…
Migrants' regional allegiances in homeland elections: Evidence on voting by Poles and Ukrainians
We examine the salience among migrants of a pervasive type of political identity neglected in the interdisciplinary scholarship on transnationalism and migrant political behaviour—homeland regional identities. Using migrants' regional background in their homelands as a proxy for their regional political identities, we estimate its effect on migrants' vote choice in homeland elections using original survey data on Polish and Ukrainian migrants. Co…
War and Displacement: The Case of Ukraine
Displacement can take many different forms. Beyond the local specificities of each case, there are also distinctive legal categories capturing different dynamics. UNHCR started recording the figure
Empowering to engage with the homeland: Do migration experience and environment foster political remittances
This article investigates the drivers and mechanisms of emigrants’ electoral and nonelectoral political engagement with their homeland. Our analysis concentrates on the diverse experiences of Polish migrants in the UK. By utilizing original mixed-method data, including a large-N survey of Polish migrant voters across the UK, in-depth interviews with Polish migrants in the UK, and matched interviews with their family members and friends in Poland,…
The 'New' Ukraine: A State of Regions
This chapter focuses on the politicization of Ukraine's regional diversity, most notably in Zakarpattya, the Donbas and Crimea, the latter being the greatest ethno-regional challenge to post-Soviet Ukraine. In Ukraine the most serious political regional mobilizations occurred in the Donbas, Zakarpattya and, most importantly, in Crimea. Given that Crimea was considered Ukraines biggest potential ethno-regional flashpoint, the prevention of conflic…
From plan to network: Urban elites and the post‐communist organisational state in Russia
This article uses the results from formal network analysis to test hypotheses about the character of Russia's post‐communist transition, taking decision‐making elites at the sub‐national level as the unit of analysis. From the transition literature, the hypothesis generated is that city politics retains elements of its pre‐democratic structure; from the urban regime theory, the hypothesis generated is that the elites’ structure will show elements…
Power ideas and conflict: Ideology, linkage and leverage in Crimea and Chechnya
In this article, we not only extend the concept of linkages and leverage to the realm of conflict studies, we also add an important linkage – ideas about political power which we call power ideas – and we expand on the causal mechanisms that turns linkages into leverage in a conflict situation. We examine the impact of the power ideas of nationalism and Islamism in the cases of two major conflicts in the region: Crimea and Chechnya. Within-case c…
The European Neighbourhood Policy and Conflict Management: A Comparison of Moldova and the Caucasus
Conflict management is an area in which the EU has only recently begun to develop a profile, in particular through its involvement in the Western Balkans. The development of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) has added a momentum to the management or resolution of the unresolved conflicts in the Former Soviet Union. This is a potentially risky undertaking. The ENP was not designed to address these conflicts; it remains politically, instituti…
A Research Agenda for the Study of Migrants and Minorities in Europe
Comparing Regional and Ethnic Conflicts in Post-Soviet Transition States
(2001). Comparing Regional and Ethnic Conflicts in Post-Soviet Transition States. Regional & Federal Studies: Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 1-35
The Dynamics of Mass Mobilization in Belarus
How can and should we analyze mass mobilization and its outcomes in authoritarian (and potentially democratizing) states as social scientists? Are there any distinctive features to the study of mass mobilization and its outcomes in Eastern Europe? And how much should we focus on comparative analyses versus context and country specificities? The case of the 2020 mass mobilization in Belarus offers an opportunity to engage with and answer these que…
Flowers, Tractors, & Telegram: Who are the Protesters in Belarus?: A Survey Based Assessment of Anti-Lukashenka Protest Participants
Who are the people who, in the face of extreme repression, unexpectedly take to the streets en masse in an authoritarian state? This article aims to answer this question with reference to the case of the Belarusian anti-Lukashenka mass mobilization of 2020. It employs unique data from an original online protest survey among citizens of Belarus who were 18 or older and residing in the country at the time of the protests (Onuch et. al.; MOBILISE 20…
The Crimean issue
Crimea has been characterized as a flashpoint for future European security and is both part of Ukraine's state‐building process and a specific case in itself. Ownership of the Black Sea Fleet is but one issue: inter‐ethnic relations (including the sensitive question of the position of the Crimean Tatars), economic and social factors (such as the peninsula's heavy dependence on Ukraine for goods and materials and Ukraine's dependence on Russian en…
Comparing Regional and Ethnic Conflicts in Post-Soviet Transition States
(2001). Comparing Regional and Ethnic Conflicts in Post-Soviet Transition States. Regional & Federal Studies: Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 1-35
Conflict and Accommodation in the Former Soviet Union: The Role of Institutions and Regimes
The 'New' Ukraine: A State of Regions
This chapter focuses on the politicization of Ukraine's regional diversity, most notably in Zakarpattya, the Donbas and Crimea, the latter being the greatest ethno-regional challenge to post-Soviet Ukraine. In Ukraine the most serious political regional mobilizations occurred in the Donbas, Zakarpattya and, most importantly, in Crimea. Given that Crimea was considered Ukraines biggest potential ethno-regional flashpoint, the prevention of conflic…
Conflict‐prevention in a transition state: The Crimean issue in post‐Soviet Ukraine
Ukraine's post‐Soviet state‐building has been characterized by two simultaneous, yet contradictory trends: the strengthening of the political institutions of the central state and a process of selective autonomization in Crimea. The Crimean issue with its different ethnic, historical, regional and international dimensions posed a considerable challenge to the ‘new’ Ukraine. Ethno‐regional conflict was widely expected to erupt in Crimea during the…
Saying `Maybe' to the `Return to Europe: Elites and the Political Space for Euroscepticism in Central and Eastern Europe
A major challenge for EU enlargement is how to communicate the benefits of membership to electorates. Given the weak penetration of party systems in the Central and East European countries, subnational elites have an important role in shaping voter preferences. Attitudes among subnational elites to EU enlargement are examined in three leading candidate countries in Central and Eastern Europe: Hungary, Slovenia, and Estonia. The results are based …
From plan to network: Urban elites and the post‐communist organisational state in Russia
This article uses the results from formal network analysis to test hypotheses about the character of Russia's post‐communist transition, taking decision‐making elites at the sub‐national level as the unit of analysis. From the transition literature, the hypothesis generated is that city politics retains elements of its pre‐democratic structure; from the urban regime theory, the hypothesis generated is that the elites’ structure will show elements…
Conditionality and Compliance in the EU's Eastward Enlargement: Regional Policy and the Reform of Sub‐national Government
Studies of EU conditionality assume one basic premise: that it exists and works because there is a power asymmetry which enables the Commission to impose the adoption of the acquis on the CEECs as a precondition of their entry to the Union. Thus this literature posits that there are clear causal relationships in the use of conditionality to ensure policy or institutional outcomes. Existing studies of enlargement conditionality analyse its correla…
The Logic of Enlargement Conditionality and Europeanization
Despite the importance of conditionality during the current EU enlargement, there are few theoretical or empirical studies of the concept. The study of EU enlargement conditionality is characterized by a concentration on the analysis of its correlation with macro-level democratization and marketization, rather than empirically tracking clear causal relationships in policies and institution-building. Most studies tend to focus on two cumulative le…
The Commission, Conditionality and Regional Policy
When the EU first acknowledged that those associated CEECs that ‘so desire’ could become members, at the Copenhagen European Council meeting in June 1993, it expressed the political and economic conditions for membership in vaguely worded and normative statements of intent in the ‘Copenhagen criteria’. As we discussed in Chapter 1, the criteria laid down three conditions for applicant states (the stability of their democracy, the proper functioni…
Elites and the Normative Capacity for Europeanization
During the EU’s eastward enlargement the notion of ‘capacity’ has been of paramount importance for the Commission and the EU’s governing institutions more broadly. As we have seen in Chapter 4, the Commission employed the term as a generic label for the parts of the acquis that required new institutional structures, management and organizational arrangements and staffing levels, all of which were often seen as being deficient in the CEECs. ‘Capac…
Communist Legacies and Regionalization
Studies of transition generally focus more on the immediate events and processes and less on the historical background which shapes it. Nevertheless, historical legacies and the extent to which a transition state has a ‘usable past’ are generally recognized as having an important bearing on the transition outcome. 1 The term ‘historical legacy’ and the issue of ‘usability’ are, however, not systematically researched in the study of transition. Pa…
Monitoring Conditionality and Compliance
For conditionality to be credible, it must be clearly benchmarked and be applied with consistency. Similarly, commitment to conformity and compliance with conditionality must be fairly evaluated. Regular monitoring was chosen by the EU as the means to communicate the criteria of accession and assess progress and to highlight shortcomings in adaptation by the CEECs. The Opinions of 1997 and the five sets of annual Regular Reports from 1998 to 2002…
Conclusion
The two most widely employed concepts in the framing of the debates about EU enlargement and European integration are ‘Europeanization’ and ‘conditionality’. Yet, both concepts are employed rather nebulously and lack coherent explanatory frameworks. The term ‘Europeanization’ has been stretched to encapsulate phenomena beyond its original locus in the framework of EU policy-making to emphasize how European norms, structures and policies filter in…
Transition, Enlargement and Regionalization: A Comparison of Hungary and Poland
During the initial post-communist transition years in most CEECs the issue of local government reform was high on the political agenda as a central theme of democratic state-building. As discussed in Chapter 2 most countries introduced democratizing and decentralizing changes to the structure of local government (see Table 2.1). In formulating these reforms domestic policy-makers looked to their historical legacies of pre-communist experiences, t…
Europeanization and Regionalization in the EU’s Enlargement to Central and Eastern Europe: The Myth of Conditionality
This book is a study of EU conditionality and compliance during the enlargement to the Central and Eastern European candidate countries. EU conditionality for membership is widely understood as having
Securitization or Securing Rights? Exploring the Conceptual Foundations of Policies towards Minorities and Migrants in Europe
Minority and migration issues tend to be framed either in terms of security and control or rights. Rather than lamenting the securitization of these issues in the academic and policy debate and advocating a focus on rights as an alternative, this article calls for the re-conceptualization in terms of a ‘security-rights nexus’. It is argued here that minority and migration issues and their conceptual interlock have a clear security dimension, but …
A Research Agenda for the Study of Migrants and Minorities in Europe
The European Neighbourhood Policy: Conditionality Revisited for the EU's Eastern Neighbours
The European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) is modelled on the institutional and procedural experience of the EU's eastward enlargement, although it explicitly excludes a membership perspective. It thus aims to define an alternative incentive for domestic reform in neighbouring countries, referred to as ‘a stake in the internal market’. This article suggests that the ENP amounts to a form of ‘conditionality-lite’ for non-candidate countries. Within t…
The politics of EU conditionality: The norm of minority protection during and beyond EU accession
The norm of minority protection is often singled out as a prime example of the political impact of European Union (EU) conditionality on the ethnically diverse states of Central and Eastern Europe. The EU's 'minority condition' is best understood as a political and social construct rooted in European security concerns. As such, it has had very 'real' effects, both intended and unintended, and direct and indirect. This article extends the study of…
The European Neighbourhood Policy and Conflict Management: A Comparison of Moldova and the Caucasus
Conflict management is an area in which the EU has only recently begun to develop a profile, in particular through its involvement in the Western Balkans. The development of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) has added a momentum to the management or resolution of the unresolved conflicts in the Former Soviet Union. This is a potentially risky undertaking. The ENP was not designed to address these conflicts; it remains politically, instituti…
Ukraine: The Role of Regionalism
Although Ukraine’s regional divisions are often thought to be detrimental to state-building and democratization, they have in fact been a source of strength and helped to prevent tilts to the political extremes
Sixth Nations and Nationalism debate: Henry E. Hale's The Foundations of Ethnic Politics: Separatism of States and Nations in Eurasia and the World
Linkages and the promotion of democracy: The EU's eastern neighbourhood
The EU's eastern neighbourhood with its considerable divergence in regime types is a more challenging testing ground for democracy promotion than Central and Eastern Europe. This article explores the diversity of the international linkages in the eastern neighbours (Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan) and the role these linkages play in domestic politics. International linkages are filtered and activated by domestic politics. If diver…
An End to “Patience”?
This chapter explores the factors that shaped patterns of economic protest across 18 European post-communist countries during the Great Recession. It explains how the Great Recession altered the level and nature of economic protest in the region and why patterns of protest varied considerably across countries. Strikes and ethnic protests decreased overall. Economic protests increased as a percentage of total protests but focused mostly on austeri…
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