Dr. Gwen Sasse of Nuffield College, Oxford, will lecture on the subject of "Current Controversies: European Union "

Her lecture took place on Tuesday, October 23, 2007, at 12:00PM in thePPEC Conference Room, Suite 305 St. Leonard's Court, 3rd Floor (map - 3819-31 Chestnut Street).

An .mp3 recording of her lecture is available as is a podcast, available through www.upenn.edu/itunes.

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Gwen Sasse, formerly at the London School of Economics, is currently a Professor Fellow and University Reader in Comparative Politics at Nuffield College, Oxford. Her fields of study include Transition and Democratisation, Post-Communism, EU Eastward Enlargement, Ethnic and Regional Conflicts, Minority Rights, and Migration in Europe.

Her current research is concerned with Post-communist transitions; ethnic and regional conflicts in Eastern Europe/the Former Soviet Union; EU eastward enlargement, in particular its impact on sub-national governance and minority issues; EU conditionality; the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP); democracy promotion; 'old' and 'new' minorities in Europe, Ukrainian politics.

Selected Publications:

Books:

1.The Crimea Question: Identity, Transition, and Conflict, Harvard University Press (forthcoming Spring 2007).

2. 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).

3. Ethnicity and Territory in the Former Soviet Union: Regions in Conflict, London: Frank Cass, 2001 (co-edited with James Hughes).

Journal Articles:

1. ‘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).

2. ‘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.

3. ‘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).

4. ‘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).

5. ‘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.

7. ‘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).

Book chapters:

1. ‘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.

2. ‘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.

3. ‘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).

4. ‘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.