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Dr Claire Gordon


Head of ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Teaching and Learning Centre

Claire Gordon

Dr Gordon has been working as a Teaching Fellow in East European Politics at the European Institute of ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ since 2003 and prior to that as a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Government.

She holds an MSc from the Centre for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Birmingham and a DPhil from St Antony’s College, Oxford University on 'The Politics of Economic Policy-Making in the Soviet Union from 1988-1991'.

Her research interests include the EU’s eastward enlargement, minority policy and the role of conditionality; conflict management in post-communist states and the role of international organisations; and processes of democratisation in Central and Eastern Europe.

From 2007-2009 she was a member of the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ research team of the EU Framework VI project ‘Human and Minority Rights in the Life Cycle of Ethnic Conflicts’ and in 2010-2011 she was member of the core team and one of the authors of the report that ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Enterprise delivered to the European Parliament on Roma inclusion titled Measures to Promote the Situation of Roma EU Citizens in the European Union. She has recently been a co-lead research on projects for European Training Foundation and the Committee of the Regions.

Her publications include: The Stabilisation and Association Process in the Western Balkans: an effective instrument of post-conflict management? (2009), EU Conditionality and the Protection of Minorities in the Post-Communist Region (2009) European Yearbook of Minority Issues; The EU and the Western Balkans: SAP as an instrument of regional stabilisation (in Talani, Leila S, (ed.) EU and the Balkans: policies of integration and disintegration).

She is a member of the non-resident Senior Research Associate Network at the European Centre for Minority Issues, Flensburg and a member of the Steering Board of the Regional Research Promotion Programme for the Western Balkans at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland.


Expertise: East European politics; minority policy; role of conditionality


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