University Teacher: Ingi Iusmen

Dr Ingi Iusmen BA (Bucharest) MA (York) MSc (Strathclyde) PhD (Strathclyde)

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Telephone: +44 (0) 114 2220 660
Room: A6 Elmfield Lodge

Profile

After studying for a BA in Political Science (University of Bucharest) between 2000-2004, I was awarded a Chevening full-studentship to do an MA in Political Philosophy-The Idea of Toleration at the University of York (2004-2005). Following this, I did an MSc in Political Research at the University of Strathclyde (2005-2006) and then I continued my studies with a PhD at the same University (Department of Government). My PhD research – which I completed in December 2009 - was entitled `The EU and Child Protection in Romania: Accession Conditionality and Feedback Effects´ and it examined the feedback effects of EU external human rights policy, particularly children´s rights policy, on the EU´s internal institutional and policy structures.

I joined the Department of Politics in spring 2010 as research associate on a project focusing on the EU and children´s rights protection, funded by the European Commission.

Research interests

My key research interests include EU enlargement policy, human rights norms, EU politics and the legal and political implications of the EU´s role and scope in human rights protection. My PhD examined the breadth and depth of EU intervention in human rights provision in Romania as part of the application of EU accession conditionality before 2007. To this end, I explored the main EU instruments and mechanisms employed to forge change in a wide array of human rights areas, particularly children´s rights protection. The key focus of my PhD was upon the feedback effects and unintended consequences of EU external policy on the EU itself. My PhD provided evidence for the EU internal institutional and policy feedback effects triggered by EU intervention in child protection in Romania. Despite the EU´s limited internal remit in human rights protection in relation to the Member States, EU external involvement with human rights policies can have far-reaching feedback effects on the EU institutions´ role and scope in human rights policy.

Research

From April 2010-January 2011 I worked alongside Prof Jean Grugel on an EU funded project which examined the impact of the EU actions and instruments on the level of protection and promotion of children´s rights in the EU. The project explored the different levels of children´s rights protection in the 27 EU Member States and the European Commission´s role and actions in this policy sector.

Since January 2011 I have started working as an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow, which involves updating my PhD findings and pursuing more extensive research in the area of child rights at the EU and European levels.

I am currently working as a University Teacher.

Publications

Books

Children’s Rights, Eastern Enlargement and the EU Human Rights Regime (forthcoming 2012) (Manchester: Manchester University Press).

Articles

‘Do As I Say Not As I do: EU-topia, the CEECs and the Credibility of the EU Human Rights Regime’ (2009) Romanian Journal of European Affairs, Vol.9, No.2.
'Romania’s Accession to the EU and EU Children’s Rights Agenda: Policy Entrepreneurship and Feedback Effects‘ (2012) Perspectives on European Politics and Society, Vol.13, No.2.
‘Civil Society Participation and EU Children’s Rights Policy’ (2012) Journal of Civil Society, Vol. 8, No.2.
‘Policy Entrepreneurship and Eastern Enlargement: the Case of EU Children’s Rights Policy’ (forthcoming 2012) Comparative European Politics
‘The European Commission as Guardian Angel: Agenda-Setting for Children’s Rights’, co-authored with Jean Grugel (2013) Journal of European Public Policy, Vol.20, No.3.
‘The EU and International Adoption from Romania’ (2013) International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family, Vol. 27, No.1.

Book Chapters

‘The Transformation of Child Protection in Romania: Institutions, Instruments and the Dynamics of Change’ (2008) in Sabine Fischer and Heiko Pleines (eds.) The EU and Central & Eastern Europe. Successes and Failures of Europeanization in Politics and Society (Stuttgart: Ibidem Publishers).
‘A Credible EU Involvement with Human Rights?’ (2008) in Josef Niznik (ed.) The Normative Environment of European Integration. Social, Political and Cultural Obstacles to Compliance with European Norms (Warsaw: IFIS Publishers).
‘The EU and the Global Promotion of Children’s Rights Norms’ (forthcoming 2012) in Astrid Boening, Jan-Frederik Kremer and Aukje van Loon (eds.) The EU: A Global Power in the Making? Europe’s Present and Future Role in a Changing World (New York: Springer Publishing).
‘Practise what you preach: EU accession conditionality and the credibility of the EU human rights regime’ (2012) in Marguerite Marlin and Scott Nicholas Romaniuk (eds.) Sowing the Seeds: Development and Politics of Human Rights (Berkshire: Berkshire Academic Press).

Reports

‘The Evaluation of the Impact of the EU Instruments Affecting Children’s Rights with a View to Assessing the Level of Protection and Promotion of Children’s Rights in the EU’ (2011) report for the European Commission (DG Justice) – authors