Dr. Claire Gordon, course tutor on EES Online’s Conflict Management module since the program's inception, has been working as a Teaching Fellow at the European Institute and Department of Government of the London School of Economics and Political Science since 2003, teaching courses on the politics of transition in Russia and the post-Soviet states, nationalism and ethnic conflict in post-communist states, and transition and EU accession in Central and Eastern Europe. For the past two years she has been a member of the LSE research team of the EU Framework VI project 'Human and Minority Rights in the Life Cycle of Ethnic Conflicts'. Her D.phil from the Sub-Faculty of Politics at the University of Oxford examined 'The Politics of Central Economic Policy-Making in the USS1988-1991' (1997).
Areas of interest: EU eastward enlargement and the role of conditionality; European Neighbourhood Policy and the EU's evolving relationship with the new eastern border states; conflict management in post-communist states and role of international organisations; processes of democratisation in Central and Eastern Europe.
