Dr. Lusine Samvel Badalyan

Affiliated researcher

 

Lusine.Badalyan@sowi.uni-giessen.de

 

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PhD project concluded:
 
Monitoring Democracy in the Eastern Neighbourhood: When are the EU’s Assessments Biased and Why? (supervisors: Prof. Heiko Pleines, Prof. Ulrike Liebert, Prof. Sandra Lavenex)
 

Research Interests

• International Relations
• Political Economy
• International Democracy Promotion
• European Neighbourhood Policy

Short CV
 
since 2017 Post-doctoral researcher, Institute of Political Science, Justus Liebig University Gießen

2015/2016 Lecturer in Governance, Liberal Arts and Sciences Program, University College Freiburg

2015/16 PhD fellow at Kolleg-Forschergruppe "The Transformative Power of Europe", Free University of Berlin
 
2011/16 Doctoral researcher at Research Centre for East European Studies, University of Bremen and at Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS)
 
2010/2011 Master of Advanced Studies in European Integration, Institute for European Studies, University of Basel
 
2008/2010 Master of Arts, Department of International Relations and Global Governance, Jacobs University Bremen/University of Bremen


Scholarships
 
2015/16 PhD Completion Grant, Kolleg-Forschergruppe "The Transformative Power of Europe", Free University of Berlin
 
2011/2014 PhD Fellowship, Volkswagen Foundation, Research Center for East European Studies, University of Bremen
 
2010/2011 Postgraduate Studies Scholarship, Gebert Rüf Foundation and Academic Swiss Caucasus Net
 
2010/2011 Tuition Waiver Scholarship, European Studies Institute, University of Basel
 
2008/2010 Postgraduate Studies Scholarship, German Academic Exchange Service and Open Society Institute/DAAD-OSI


Publications

“Vote buying or (Political) Business (Cycles) as Usual.” With Toke Aidt, Zareh Asatryan, and Friedrich Heinemann. ZEW Discussion paper. 2015. No.15-017

"Европейский союз и его оценка демократии в странах Восточного партнерства: роль политической и экономической взаимозависимости". In: Inna Chuvychkina (Hg.): Eksportnye nefte- i gazoprovody na postsovetskom prostranstve. Analiz truboprovodnoi politiki v svete teorii mezhdunarodnykh otnoshenii, ibidem-Verlag, Stuttgart 2015, S.105-132.

“The EU’s Democracy Promotion in its Eastern Neighborhood: Consistency in the Shadow of Energy Trade.” In Andreas Heinrich and Heiko Pleines (eds.). Export Pipelines from the CIS Region: Geopolitics, Securitization, and Political Decision-Making. 2014. Vol. 10. Columbia University Press.

“Interlinked Energy Supply and Security Challenges in the South Caucasus.” Caucasus Analytical Digest, No.33, 2011 December