Nida Gelazis
Program Associate , East European Studies
Phone: 202/691-4217
Email: nida.gelazis@wilsoncenter.org

Affiliation Program associate, East European Studies Expertise East Europe; European Union (especially enlargement); constitutionalism; democratization; human rights; international Law Experience Managing editor, East European Constitutional Review, University of Chicago Law School and the Constitutional and Legislative Policy Institute, Budapest, Hungary (1994-96); research associate, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Florence, Italy (1997-2000)

Major Publications | Education

Major Publications

• "The Tenth Anniversary of the Dayton Accords and Afterwards: Reflections on Post-Conflict State- and Nation-Building," editor, EES Special Report, April 2007
  
• “An Evaluation of International Instruments that Address the Condition of Statelessness: A Case Study of Estonia and Latvia,” in International Migration Law: Developing Paradigms and Key Challenges, ed. Ryszard Cholewinski, Richard Perruchoud and Euan MacDonald (Asser Press, 2007)
  
• “Fighting Poverty and Reforming Social Security: What Can Post-Soviet States Learn from the New Democracies of Central Europe?," co-editor with Michael Cain and Tomazs Inglot, EES Special Report, February 2007
  
• “Kosovo: Mission Not Yet Accomplished,” co-author with Martin Sletzinger, The Wilson Quarterly, Autumn 2005
  
• "Women in East European Politics,” editor, EES Special Report, September 2005
  
• “Statelessness in the Baltic States: Ramifications for European Citizenship and Social Stratification after EU Enlargement,” European Journal of Migration and Law 6: 225-242, 2004.
  
• “East Europe’s New Role in the Middle East,” editor, EES News Special Report, January 2004
  
• “Defending Order and Freedom: The Lithuanian Constitutional Court in its First Decade,” in Constitutional Justice: East and West, ed. Wojciech Sadurski (Kluwer International, 2003)
  
• “Institutional Engineering in Lithuania: Stability through Compromise,” in Consolidation of Democracy in Eastern Europe: Institutional Engineering, ed. Jan Zielonka (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001)
  
• “The Effects of EU Conditionality on Citizenship Policies and Protection of National Minorities in the Baltic States,” in The Road to the European Union - Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, ed. Jan Zielonka and Vello Pettai (Manchester University Press, 2003); also published as a Working Paper of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, No. 2000/68

Education
M.A., Comparative European and International Law (LLM), European University Institute, Florence, Italy; B.A., Political Science, University of Chicago

East European Studies
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