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Overview

Gwendolyn Sasse is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom and conducts research primarily within the social sciences. Their scholarly work spans several subfields, including political science and international relations, sociology and political science, clinical psychology, and communication. The focus of their research addresses various aspects of political dynamics, conflict, migration, and social integration.

The scientist's research topics encompass:

  • European and Russian Geopolitical Military Strategies
  • Post-Soviet Geopolitical Dynamics
  • Eastern European Communism and Reforms
  • Electoral Systems and Political Participation
  • Populism, Right-Wing Movements
  • Migration, Refugees, and Integration
  • Migration, Health and Trauma

Frequent publication venues for Gwendolyn Sasse include:

  • Europe Asia Studies
  • Post-Soviet Affairs
  • Nationalities Papers
  • osteuropa
  • AEA Randomized Controlled Trials

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Sasse are:

  • "War and Displacement: The Case of Ukraine," 2020, published in Europe Asia Studies
  • "The Belarus Crisis: People, Protest, and Political Dispositions," 2022, published in Post-Soviet Affairs
  • "Flowers, Tractors, & Telegram: Who are the Protesters in Belarus?: A Survey Based Assessment of Anti-Lukashenka Protest Participants," 2023, published in Nationalities Papers
  • "Anti-regime Action and Geopolitical Polarization: Understanding Protester Dispositions in Belarus," 2022, published in Post-Soviet Affairs
  • "The Displaced as 'Ordinary Citizens': Exploring Variation in the Political Attitudes of the Displaced from Donbas," 2020, published in Europe Asia Studies

Collaboration is a notable aspect of their academic work. Frequent coauthors include Olga Onuch, Henry Hale, Volodymyr Kulyk, Deirdre MacManus, and Sébastien Michiels, reflecting interdisciplinary and regional interests particularly related to Eastern Europe and post-Soviet studies.

The researcher's contributions engage broadly with questions concerning geopolitical strategies, political participation, social movements, and the experiences of displaced populations, indicating a focus on the intersection between political phenomena and social conditions within the European and post-Soviet contexts.

Best Publications

  • Europeanization and Regionalization in the EU’s Enlargement to Central and Eastern Europe

    James Hughes;Gwendolyn Sasse;Claire Gordon

  • Conditionality and Compliance in the EU's Eastward Enlargement: Regional Policy and the Reform of Sub‐national Government

    James Hughes;Gwendolyn Sasse;Claire E Gordon

  • The European Neighbourhood Policy: Conditionality Revisited for the EU's Eastern Neighbours

    Gwendolyn Sasse

  • Monitoring the monitors: EU enlargement conditionality and minority protection in the CEECs

    James Hughes;Gwendolyn Sasse

  • The politics of EU conditionality: the norm of minority protection during and beyond EU accession

    Gwendolyn Sasse

  • Europeanization and Regionalization in the EU's Enlargement to Central and Eastern Europe: The Myth of Conditionality

    James Hughes;Gwendolyn Sasse;Claire E. Gordon

  • The Crimea Question: Identity, Transition, and Conflict

    Gwendolyn Sasse

  • EU Conditionality and Minority Rights: Translating the Copenhagen Criterion into Policy

    Gwendolyn Sasse

  • Securitization or Securing Rights? Exploring the Conceptual Foundations of Policies towards Minorities and Migrants in Europe*

    Gwendolyn Sasse

  • War and identity: the case of the Donbas in Ukraine

    Gwendolyn Sasse;Alice Lackner

  • A research agenda for the study of migrants and minorities in Europe

    Gwendolyn Sasse;Eiko R. Thielemann

  • The 'New' Ukraine: A State of Regions

    Gwendolyn Sasse

  • The Maidan in Movement: Diversity and the Cycles of Protest

    Olga Onuch;Gwendolyn Sasse

  • Ethnicity and territory in the former Soviet Union: regions in conflict

    James Hughes;Gwendolyn Sasse

  • Minority rights and EU enlargement: normative overstretch or effective conditionality

    Gwendolyn Sasse

  • Linkages and the promotion of democracy: the EU's eastern neighbourhood

    Gwendolyn Sasse

  • EU enlargement, Europeanisation and the dynamics of regionalisation in the CEECs

    James Hughes;Gwendolyn Sasse;Claire E Gordon

  • An End to “Patience”?

    Mark R. Beissinger;Gwendolyn Sasse;Kurt Straif

  • Comparing Regional and Ethnic Conflicts in Post-Soviet Transition States

    James Hughes;Gwendolyn Sasse

  • A voice despite exit: the role of assimilation, emigrant networks, and destination in emigrants' transnational political engagement

    Anar K. Ahmadov;Gwendolyn Sasse

  • Saying 'maybe' to the 'return to Europe': elites and the political space for euroscepticism in Central and Eastern Europe

    James Hughes;Gwendolyn Sasse;Claire E Gordon

  • The Regional Deficit in Eastward Enlargement of the European Union: Top Down Policies and Bottom Up Reactions

    Jim Hughes;Gwendolyn Sasse;Claire Gordon

Frequent Co-Authors

Henry E. Hale
Henry E. Hale George Washington University
Michael Hechter
Michael Hechter Arizona State University
Peter John
Peter John King's College London
Larry Diamond
Larry Diamond Stanford University
Juan J. Linz
Juan J. Linz Yale University
Alfred Stepan
Alfred Stepan Columbia University

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