Oliver Schwarz is researcher and Lecturer for European Integration and Politics at the Institute of Political Science, University Duisburg-Essen (Germany). He is the Coordinator of the Mentoring Programme for the BA Political Science, the Coordinator of the Jean Monnet Module EUMPC and the Co-Chair of the Duisburg Brranch of the Südosteuropa-Gesellschaft (SOG). Olivers research focuses on European Integration, processes of Europeanisation and the EU as a global and regional actor in security and peace. He studied Political Science at the University of DuisburgEssen with minors in Psychology and Law. Between 2005 and 2007, he took part in the research project “Conflict settlement through Europeanisation?” and conducted extensive fieldwork in Greece, Macedonia and Turkey during that time. His dissertation with the title “Enlargement as an all-purpose tool of the European Union? The Europeanisation of the Western Balkans since EU’s Eastern enlargement” was published by Nomos in 2010. Since 2005, Oliver is member of the Southeast Europe Association (Südosteuropa Gesellschaft, SOG). The SOG is an organisation that seeks to bridge political debate with scientific dialogue and socio-cultural exchange about Southeast Europe.
Research Interests: EU enlargement, EU politics in Southeast Europe (Western Balkans), Europeanisation of political systems, Peaceful settlement of conflicts, Compliance with fundamental norms, External relations of the EU, and Parliaments in EU multi-level governance
| Institution: | University of Duisburg-Essen |
| Fields of Expertise: | Defence and Security EU Foreign Policy and External Relations EU Institutions EU Multi-level Governance EU Policies EU Politics International Relations and Foreign Policy |
| Research groups: | Democracy/Populism/Nationalism,The ECSA-C members |
| Email: | oliver.schwarz@uni-due.de |
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| Languages: | English, German |
| Publications: | Pickel, Susanne/Schwarz, Oliver (2020) Slowenien [Slovenia], in: Arthur Benz/Stephan Bröchler/Hans-Joachim Lauth (eds.) Handbuch der europäischen Verfassungsgeschichte im 20. Jahrhundert (Bd. 5: seit 1989), Bonn: Dietz, 1053-1082. Schwarz, Oliver (2019) Nordmazedonien [North Macedonia], in: Werner Weidenfeld/Wolfgang Wessels (eds.) Jahrbuch der Europäischen Integration 2019, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 411-412. Schwarz, Oliver (2019) Konservativismus, Homophobie und die Angst vor dem "Genderwahn": Geschlechterpolitik in Südosteuropa [Conservatism, homophobia and the fear of "gender craze": gender politics in Southeastern Europe], in: Südosteuropa Mitteilungen 59 (1): 81-85. Schwarz, Oliver (2018) Mazedonien [Macedonia], in: Werner Weidenfeld/Wolfgang Wessels (eds.) Jahrbuch der Europäischen Integration 2018, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 387-388. Schwarz, Oliver (2017) Mazedonien [Macedonia], in: Werner Weidenfeld/Wolfgang Wessels (eds.) Jahrbuch der Europäischen Integration 2017, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 437-438. Schwarz, Oliver (2016) Mazedonien [Macedonia], in: Werner Weidenfeld/Wolfgang Wessels (eds.) Jahrbuch der Europäischen Integration 2016, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 427-428 Schwarz, Oliver (2016) Two steps forward one step back: what shapes the process of EU enlargement in South-Eastern Europe?, in: Journal of European Integration 38 (7): 757-773. Böcker, Julian/Schwarz, Oliver (2013) Das doppelte Demokratiedefizit europäischer Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik: Paradox eines kontrafaktischen Legitimitätsmodells parlamentarischer Kontrolle? [The Double Democracy Deficit of European Security and Defence Policy: Paradox of a Counterfactual Legitimacy Model of Parliamentary Control?], in: Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen 44 (1): 119-136 Schwarz, Oliver/Altmann, Franz Lothar/Brey, Hansjörg (eds.) (2012) Griechenland in der Schulden- und Staatskrise? Ursachen, Folgen und Auswege [Greece in a Debt and State Crisis? Causes, Implications and Loopholes], Munich: Verlag Otto Sagner. |
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