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
ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Consulting projects:
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Regional Development in Ukraine: Priority Actions in Terms of Decentralization
January 2017
Client: European Committee of the Regions
Authors: Tomila Lankina, Claire Gordon & Svitlana Slava
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Evaluation of the EU Framework for National Roma Integration Strategies
December 2015
Client: European Parliament
Authors: Claire Gordon, & Dr William Bartlett & Bregtje Kamphuis (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳)
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South Eastern Europe, Israel and Turkey: Trends, Perspectives and Challenges in Strengthening Vocational Education for Social Inclusion and Social Cohesion
December 2013
Client: European Training Foundation (ETF)
Authors: Will Bartlett, Marina Cino Pagliarello, Claire Gordon and Simona Milio
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Measures to Promote the Situation of Roma EU Citizens in the European Union
January 2011
Client: European Parliament - DG for Internal Policies
Authors: Will Bartlett, Roberta Benini & Claire Gordon (with assistance of: Laura Cashman, Sarah Cemlyn, Joan Costa-Font, Florin Moisa, Johan Gabrielsson, Gregor Grienig, Argyris Mamarelis, Georgios Niarchos, Ovidiu Voicu, Dimitris Papadimitriou, Christophe Robert, Andrew Ryder, Sorin Cace, Daniela Tarnovschi, Todor Todorov, Kyriaki Topidi, Peter Vermeersch, Erzsebet Vajodovich-Visy)