The EU Enlargement and Gay Politics: The Impact of Eastern Enlargement on Rights, Activism and PrejudiceKoen Slootmaeckers, Heleen Touquet, Peter Vermeersch Springer, 2016 M06 23 - 238 pages This book offers a well-investigated and accessible picture of the current situation around the politics of LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender) rights and activism in Central Europe and the Western Balkans in the context of the enlargement of the European Union (EU). It provides not only thoughtful reflections on the topic but also a wealth of new empirical findings — arising from legal and policy analysis, large-scale sociological investigations and country case studies. Theoretical concepts come from institutional analysis, the study of social movements, law, and Europeanization literature. The authors discuss emerging Europe-wide activism for LGBT rights and analyze issues such as the tendency of nationalist movements to turn ‘sexual others’ into ‘national others,’ the actions and rhetoric of church actors as powerful counter-mobilizers against LGBT rights, and the role of the domestic state on the receiving end of EU pressure in the field of fundamental rights.
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... Ayoub (Drexel University), Emina Bošnjak (Sarajevo Open Center), Tanya Domi (Columbia University), Adam Fagan (Queen Mary University of London), Vjosa Musliu (Ghent University), David Patternotte (Université libre de Bruxelles), Łukasz ...
... (Ayoub and Paternotte 2014). In this alternative model, Russia promotes 'traditional values' and seeks to defend 'authentic' national cultures, whilst resisting democratic and 'modern' values imposed from abroad. LGBT rights in this ...
... Ayoub 2013; Kuhar 2011, 2012; Kuhar and Mencin Čeplak 2016). These horizontal processes emphasize transnational (activist) cooperation and policy transfer (or cross-loading) via state-to-state learning and informal policy networks ...
... Ayoub 2014, 2015; Kahlina 2015; O'Dwyer 2010, 2012; O'Dwyer and Schwartz 2010), by analyzing the impact of the EU enlargement on the new member states from the different iterations of the Eastern enlargement, as well as on those ...
... Ayoub, P. M. (2013). Cooperative transnationalism in contemporary Europe: Europeanization and political opportunities for LGBT mobilization in the European Union. European Political Science Review, 5(2), 279–310. Ayoub, P. M. (2014) ...