Heather Grabbe

Heather Grabbe (born 30 August 1970) is a political scientist, activist, and director of the Open Society European Policy Institute in Brussels, Belgium.[1]

Biography

Between 2004 and 2009, Grabbe worked as senior advisor to then European Commissioner for Enlargement Olli Rehn. Grabbe was responsible in his cabinet for the Balkans and Turkey. Prior to working for the Commission, Grabbe was deputy director of the Centre for European Reform, publishing widely on EU enlargement and other European issues.[2] Grabbe’s work has been published, among others, in the Financial Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and the Guardian.[3][4][5] In 2018, she spoke at TEDx Brussels and at the Belgian Senate Superdemocracy series on the importance of critical thinking and mindful engagement with post-truth politics, and how technology is affecting the openness of societies and quality of democracy.[6][7]

Grabbe has authored several seminal studies of the EU enlargement process, including the 2006 book, The EU's transformative power : Europeanization through conditionality in Central and Eastern Europe.[8]

Bibliography
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gollark: I don't know. You haven't described the mechanisms in any useful detail.
gollark: For example, if the battery fails, you have to get keys reloaded, and they can't be repaired by users.
gollark: I mean, they make it work a bit for credit card terminals, apparently, but those are not that user-friendly.
gollark: If you want it to be some magic untamperable hardware, that's maybe *possible* for some amount of "untamperable", but really hard and user-hostile.

References
  1. "Heather Grabbe". Open Society Foundations. Retrieved 2019-03-15.
  2. "Heather Grabbe".
  3. "Heather Grabbe". Financial Times. Retrieved 2019-03-15.
  4. "Dealing With Secession in Europe". www.nytimes.com. Retrieved 2019-03-15.
  5. Grabbe, Heather (24 April 2003). "Europe's Power of Attraction". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2019-03-15.
  6. "Heather Grabbe". TEDxBrussels. Retrieved 2019-03-15.
  7. "SUPERDEMOCRACY". superdemocratie.ensembles.org. Retrieved 2019-03-15.
  8. Grabbe, Heather. (2006). The EU's transformative power : Europeanization through conditionality in Central and Eastern Europe. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-230-51030-2. OCLC 312463965.
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