Dr. Eli Gateva

Biography

Eli Gateva is a Departmental Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford, affiliated with St Antony's College. Gateva has previously held academic positions at the University of Manchester, Queen Mary University of London, the University of York, and the University of Nottingham. From 2015 to 2017, she was a Visiting Fellow at the LSE – Research on South Eastern Europe based at the European Institute of the London School of Economics and Political Science. A Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, her main research interests include politics of the European Union, EU conditionality, EU Enlargement policy, democracy, and East European Politics, with a focus on anti-corruption policies. Her monograph, 'European Union Enlargement Conditionality' (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), analyses the nature and evolution of EU enlargement conditionality. Gateva actively contributes to the academic community through various publications, including contributions to the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics, and regularly provides commentary in media outlets such as the BBC and Euronews. She is currently involved in launching an interdisciplinary network focused on 'Rethinking Europe’s East-West Divide.' She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on topics such as EU Foreign Policy and European Governance.

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