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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... O'Dwyer and Peter Vermeersch 7 Same-Sex Partnership Debate in Slovenia: Between Declarative Support and Lack of Political Will Roman Kuhar and Metka Mencin Čeplak Part III Close-ups of the Western Balkans 8 9 10 The Struggle for ...
... O'Dwyer is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Florida. His book Runaway State-Building: Patronage Politics and Democratic Development (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006) examines the relationship between ...
... O'Dwyer and Vermeersch 2016). The book also contributes to the emerging research agenda on LGBT rights in the enlargement process (see e.g. Ayoub 2014, 2015; Kahlina 2015; O'Dwyer 2010, 2012; O'Dwyer and Schwartz 2010), by analyzing the ...
... O'Dwyer and Vermeersch 2016) show how politicians employ homophobic political rhetoric to oppose EU integration.5 In order to defend the 'traditional' culture of their country from Western (EU) influence, the political elite employ ...
... EU, they also show the time-limited impact of EU enlargement and the significant role of domestic politics on this same-sex partnership debate. Conor O'Dwyer and Peter Vermeersch examine the steady advances the 10 K. SLOOTMAECKERS ET AL.