Andrea Gawrich
Biographic Data
| ID | 4382410 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrea Gawrich |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrea |
| FAMILY NAME | Gawrich |
| SIGNATURE | GAWRICH A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2132-5619 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 118 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The agency of secondary states in post-Soviet Eurasian regionalism
The extant literature on Eurasian regionalism predominantly employs a hegemony-centric instrumental approach that views regional organisations as tools of control by the hegemon—Russia, implicitly considering secondary states as unwaveringly loyal to Russia. This article advocates the shift of perspective to the arena approach that allows secondary state strategies both within Russia-led regional organisations and across the wider spectrum of reg…
The Conflict in Eastern Ukraine and International Support for the Decentralization Reform (2014–2022): Theory-Guided Observations
This article explores Western donors’ support for the decentralization reform in post-Euromaidan Ukraine prior to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, with a focus on the relationship between decentralization and conflict management. It demonstrates that, despite the protracted conflict in eastern Ukraine, bilateral donors have preferred to address Ukraine’s decentralization from the governance reform perspective, rather t…
Reorganizing the Neighborhood? Power Shifts and Regional Security Organizations in the Post-Soviet Space and Latin America
The article explores how power shifts in world politics and the emergence of regional powers affect regional security governance. We identify the post-Soviet space and Latin America as two regions where a traditional hegemon and Cold War superpower (the United States and Russia, respectively) has recently been challenged by a rising power (Brazil and China). In both regions, an older regional organization shaped by Cold War dynamics exists alongs…
International Negotiations and Domestic Change in the EU’s Eastern Neighborhood: Deconstructing Antidiscrimination Reforms in Moldova
Democratic reforms, or lack thereof, in countries addressed by the European Union’s (EU’s) Eastern Partnership initiative (EaP) have attracted considerable scholarly attention. Yet many studies approach these countries’ political and policy developments through the lens of external actors’ (especially the EU and Russia’s) engagements. While accounting for international influences, this article lends agency to the domestic actors by scrutinizing t…
Out of the shadow? Georgia’s emerging strategies of engagement in the Eastern Partnership: Between external governance and partnership cooperation
When the Eastern Partnership (EaP) was launched in 2009, the core motivation was to supplement the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) with an improved eastern dimension. The EaP was conceived to offer more incentives and rewards, thereby shifting the manner of cooperation to more partnership and away from asymmetry. This article analyses the intentions and effects of the EaP in the case of EU-Georgia relations by investigating two modes of coope…
Regional Organizations and Secessionist Entities: Analysing Practices of the EU and the OSCE in Post-Soviet Protracted Conflict Areas
This piece examines practices of the European Union (EU) and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in dealing with secessionist entities in the post-Soviet space. The study specifically looks at the engagement of the two organizations with Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine and contested territories that seek secession from these ‘parent states’: South Ossetia, Transnistria and the Donbas region. Drawing on the organizations’ …
Overlap with contestation? Comparing norms and policies of regional organizations in the post-Soviet space
Two sets of regional organizations contribute to the overlapping regionalism in the former Soviet space. On one side we find the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and the Council of Europe (COE), whose original ‘Cold War agenda’ was to enhance the political dialogue across the East–West divide in Europe. On the other side is a kaleidoscopic group of organizations which have been established in the framework of (re-)emerg…
(Dys-)Functionalities of Corruption
Corruption is usually understood as hampering political development, economic growth and democratic participation of citizens, but comparing the effects of corruption for different political regimes presents astonishingly complex findings. The ongoing persistence of corruption underlines that it is not only dysfunctional, but can be highly functional as well. This special issue brings together contributions from comparative politics, political sc…
Demokratieförderung von Europarat und Osze: Ein Beitrag zur europäischen Integration
Demokratieförderung Von Europarat und Osze: Ein Beitrag Zur Europäischen Integration
Functionalities of Corruption: Comparative Perspectives and Methodological Pluralism
Minderheiten Im Transformations- und Konsolidierungsprozess Polens: Verbände und Politische Institutionen
(Dys-)Functionalities of corruption: Comparative perspectives and methodological pluralism
The European Union's Relations with Ukraine and Azerbaijan
Among European Neighborhood Policy countries, Azerbaijan stands out, because it leans on its resource base and sees the EU on the receiving end of bilateral relations. At the other extreme, Ukraine depends on EU cooperation. A comprehensive theoretical concept for analyzing both types of asymmetries is developed by considering Ukraine's and Azerbaijan's rational cost-benefit and constructivist, norm-oriented national strategies. Both national str…
Neighbourhood Europeanization through ENP: The Case of Ukraine
This article contributes to the integration of Neighbourhood Europeanization in the literature on Europeanization. Based on insights from Membership and Enlargement Europeanization , we reveal important inconsistencies of Neighbourhood Europeanization through ENP as well as a lack of robust empirical support for its effectiveness. We define core dimensions and determinants of Neighbourhood Europeanization and implement this analytical framework f…
Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan as Post-Soviet Rentier States: Resource Incomes and Autocracy as a Double ‘Curse’in Post-Soviet Regimes
This article presents an analysis of two post-Soviet states, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan, which can be identified as post-Soviet rentier states. Both countries are characterised economically by enormous national resources of gas and oil and low economic diversification as well as politically by strong autocratic presidentialism with neopatrimonial structures. These two factors, combined with further post-Soviet legacies such as a low level of polit…
Die EU-Minderheitenpolitik und die Erweiterungsprozesse
Instrumente des Minderheitenschutzes in Polen
Minderheiten im Transformations- und Konsolidierungsprozess Polens
Minderheiten im Transformations- und Konsolidierungsprozess Polens: Verbände und Politische Institutionen …
Neighbourhood Europeanization through ENP: The Case of Ukraine
This article contributes to the integration of Neighbourhood Europeanization in the literature on Europeanization. Based on insights from Membership and Enlargement Europeanization , we reveal important inconsistencies of Neighbourhood Europeanization through ENP as well as a lack of robust empirical support for its effectiveness. We define core dimensions and determinants of Neighbourhood Europeanization and implement this analytical framework f…
Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan as Post-Soviet Rentier States: Resource Incomes and Autocracy as a Double ‘Curse’in Post-Soviet Regimes
This article presents an analysis of two post-Soviet states, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan, which can be identified as post-Soviet rentier states. Both countries are characterised economically by enormous national resources of gas and oil and low economic diversification as well as politically by strong autocratic presidentialism with neopatrimonial structures. These two factors, combined with further post-Soviet legacies such as a low level of polit…
The European Union's Relations with Ukraine and Azerbaijan
Among European Neighborhood Policy countries, Azerbaijan stands out, because it leans on its resource base and sees the EU on the receiving end of bilateral relations. At the other extreme, Ukraine depends on EU cooperation. A comprehensive theoretical concept for analyzing both types of asymmetries is developed by considering Ukraine's and Azerbaijan's rational cost-benefit and constructivist, norm-oriented national strategies. Both national str…
Regional Organizations and Secessionist Entities: Analysing Practices of the EU and the OSCE in Post-Soviet Protracted Conflict Areas
This piece examines practices of the European Union (EU) and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in dealing with secessionist entities in the post-Soviet space. The study specifically looks at the engagement of the two organizations with Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine and contested territories that seek secession from these ‘parent states’: South Ossetia, Transnistria and the Donbas region. Drawing on the organizations’ …
Reorganizing the Neighborhood? Power Shifts and Regional Security Organizations in the Post-Soviet Space and Latin America
The article explores how power shifts in world politics and the emergence of regional powers affect regional security governance. We identify the post-Soviet space and Latin America as two regions where a traditional hegemon and Cold War superpower (the United States and Russia, respectively) has recently been challenged by a rising power (Brazil and China). In both regions, an older regional organization shaped by Cold War dynamics exists alongs…
International Negotiations and Domestic Change in the EU’s Eastern Neighborhood: Deconstructing Antidiscrimination Reforms in Moldova
Democratic reforms, or lack thereof, in countries addressed by the European Union’s (EU’s) Eastern Partnership initiative (EaP) have attracted considerable scholarly attention. Yet many studies approach these countries’ political and policy developments through the lens of external actors’ (especially the EU and Russia’s) engagements. While accounting for international influences, this article lends agency to the domestic actors by scrutinizing t…
The agency of secondary states in post-Soviet Eurasian regionalism
The extant literature on Eurasian regionalism predominantly employs a hegemony-centric instrumental approach that views regional organisations as tools of control by the hegemon—Russia, implicitly considering secondary states as unwaveringly loyal to Russia. This article advocates the shift of perspective to the arena approach that allows secondary state strategies both within Russia-led regional organisations and across the wider spectrum of reg…
The Conflict in Eastern Ukraine and International Support for the Decentralization Reform (2014–2022): Theory-Guided Observations
This article explores Western donors’ support for the decentralization reform in post-Euromaidan Ukraine prior to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, with a focus on the relationship between decentralization and conflict management. It demonstrates that, despite the protracted conflict in eastern Ukraine, bilateral donors have preferred to address Ukraine’s decentralization from the governance reform perspective, rather t…
Overlap with contestation? Comparing norms and policies of regional organizations in the post-Soviet space
Two sets of regional organizations contribute to the overlapping regionalism in the former Soviet space. On one side we find the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and the Council of Europe (COE), whose original ‘Cold War agenda’ was to enhance the political dialogue across the East–West divide in Europe. On the other side is a kaleidoscopic group of organizations which have been established in the framework of (re-)emerg…
Minderheiten im Transformations- und Konsolidierungsprozess Polens
Minderheiten im Transformations- und Konsolidierungsprozess Polens: Verbände und Politische Institutionen …
Instrumente des Minderheitenschutzes in Polen
Die EU-Minderheitenpolitik und die Erweiterungsprozesse
Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan as Post-Soviet Rentier States: Resource Incomes and Autocracy as a Double ‘Curse’in Post-Soviet Regimes
This article presents an analysis of two post-Soviet states, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan, which can be identified as post-Soviet rentier states. Both countries are characterised economically by enormous national resources of gas and oil and low economic diversification as well as politically by strong autocratic presidentialism with neopatrimonial structures. These two factors, combined with further post-Soviet legacies such as a low level of polit…
The European Union's Relations with Ukraine and Azerbaijan
Among European Neighborhood Policy countries, Azerbaijan stands out, because it leans on its resource base and sees the EU on the receiving end of bilateral relations. At the other extreme, Ukraine depends on EU cooperation. A comprehensive theoretical concept for analyzing both types of asymmetries is developed by considering Ukraine's and Azerbaijan's rational cost-benefit and constructivist, norm-oriented national strategies. Both national str…
Neighbourhood Europeanization through ENP: The Case of Ukraine
This article contributes to the integration of Neighbourhood Europeanization in the literature on Europeanization. Based on insights from Membership and Enlargement Europeanization , we reveal important inconsistencies of Neighbourhood Europeanization through ENP as well as a lack of robust empirical support for its effectiveness. We define core dimensions and determinants of Neighbourhood Europeanization and implement this analytical framework f…
Functionalities of Corruption: Comparative Perspectives and Methodological Pluralism
Minderheiten Im Transformations- und Konsolidierungsprozess Polens: Verbände und Politische Institutionen
(Dys-)Functionalities of corruption: Comparative perspectives and methodological pluralism
(Dys-)Functionalities of Corruption
Corruption is usually understood as hampering political development, economic growth and democratic participation of citizens, but comparing the effects of corruption for different political regimes presents astonishingly complex findings. The ongoing persistence of corruption underlines that it is not only dysfunctional, but can be highly functional as well. This special issue brings together contributions from comparative politics, political sc…
Demokratieförderung von Europarat und Osze: Ein Beitrag zur europäischen Integration
Demokratieförderung Von Europarat und Osze: Ein Beitrag Zur Europäischen Integration
Overlap with contestation? Comparing norms and policies of regional organizations in the post-Soviet space
Two sets of regional organizations contribute to the overlapping regionalism in the former Soviet space. On one side we find the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and the Council of Europe (COE), whose original ‘Cold War agenda’ was to enhance the political dialogue across the East–West divide in Europe. On the other side is a kaleidoscopic group of organizations which have been established in the framework of (re-)emerg…
Regional Organizations and Secessionist Entities: Analysing Practices of the EU and the OSCE in Post-Soviet Protracted Conflict Areas
This piece examines practices of the European Union (EU) and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in dealing with secessionist entities in the post-Soviet space. The study specifically looks at the engagement of the two organizations with Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine and contested territories that seek secession from these ‘parent states’: South Ossetia, Transnistria and the Donbas region. Drawing on the organizations’ …
Out of the shadow? Georgia’s emerging strategies of engagement in the Eastern Partnership: Between external governance and partnership cooperation
When the Eastern Partnership (EaP) was launched in 2009, the core motivation was to supplement the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) with an improved eastern dimension. The EaP was conceived to offer more incentives and rewards, thereby shifting the manner of cooperation to more partnership and away from asymmetry. This article analyses the intentions and effects of the EaP in the case of EU-Georgia relations by investigating two modes of coope…
Reorganizing the Neighborhood? Power Shifts and Regional Security Organizations in the Post-Soviet Space and Latin America
The article explores how power shifts in world politics and the emergence of regional powers affect regional security governance. We identify the post-Soviet space and Latin America as two regions where a traditional hegemon and Cold War superpower (the United States and Russia, respectively) has recently been challenged by a rising power (Brazil and China). In both regions, an older regional organization shaped by Cold War dynamics exists alongs…
International Negotiations and Domestic Change in the EU’s Eastern Neighborhood: Deconstructing Antidiscrimination Reforms in Moldova
Democratic reforms, or lack thereof, in countries addressed by the European Union’s (EU’s) Eastern Partnership initiative (EaP) have attracted considerable scholarly attention. Yet many studies approach these countries’ political and policy developments through the lens of external actors’ (especially the EU and Russia’s) engagements. While accounting for international influences, this article lends agency to the domestic actors by scrutinizing t…
The Conflict in Eastern Ukraine and International Support for the Decentralization Reform (2014–2022): Theory-Guided Observations
This article explores Western donors’ support for the decentralization reform in post-Euromaidan Ukraine prior to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, with a focus on the relationship between decentralization and conflict management. It demonstrates that, despite the protracted conflict in eastern Ukraine, bilateral donors have preferred to address Ukraine’s decentralization from the governance reform perspective, rather t…
The agency of secondary states in post-Soviet Eurasian regionalism
The extant literature on Eurasian regionalism predominantly employs a hegemony-centric instrumental approach that views regional organisations as tools of control by the hegemon—Russia, implicitly considering secondary states as unwaveringly loyal to Russia. This article advocates the shift of perspective to the arena approach that allows secondary state strategies both within Russia-led regional organisations and across the wider spectrum of reg…
Political science (16 works) · Law (12 works) · Economics (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Political economy (10 works) · Politics (10 works) · European Union Policy and Governance (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Democracy (7 works) · Economic system (6 works)