Ingi Iusmen - Childrens Rights, Eastern Enlargement and the EU Human Rights Regime

Childrens rights, Eastern enlargement and the EU human rights regime

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Childrens rights, Eastern enlargement and the EU human rights regime

Ingi Iusmen

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I have benefited from much support and guidance in writing this book. The main argument and accompanying empirical findings took shape as part of my doctoral research, at the University of Strathclyde (Glasgow), under the supervision of Laura Cram. I am deeply grateful to Laura for her constant academic and moral support during my doctoral studies and for instilling in me the passion for researching EU politics and European integration. The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) postdoctoral fellowship, held at the University of Sheffield, enabled me to further develop and broaden the arguments of my doctoral research and, particularly, to carry out empirical research, which underpins the findings of the book. Therefore, I am very grateful for the funding I benefited from the University of Strathclyde (university studentship for my PhD, 20062009) and from the ESRC (postdoctoral fellowship grant PTA-026-27-2846 The EU Human Rights Regime: Policy Feedback and Childrens Rights, 20112012) in order to conduct the research for the book. I am immensely grateful to and appreciative of the substantial support and guidance of Simon Bulmer and Jean Grugel at Sheffield University. I am particularly indebted to them for providing me with the much-needed encouragement and motivation to write the book. Thanks must also go to Helen Stalford (Liverpool University) whose passion and dedication for researching European childrens rights has proved so influential in the latter stages of writing this book. I am thankful to all those at Manchester University Press for their patience, professionalism and efficiency in preparing this book for publication.

I am deeply grateful for the support, loyalty and friendship over the years of all my friends in Glasgow and Sheffield. The ceaseless support and help of my dear friends Ruxandra Arsene, Dawn Morrow, Fernanda Jkel, Alessandra Negreiros and Dine (Christine) Haider, as well as Vicky Ward and Caz Rouse, have been vital over the last 2 years.

A special acknowledgement must go to my family in Romania: I will be eternally grateful to my parents, Saime and Ilhan, whose love truly knows no boundaries. They have been such an enormous support over the years by offering uplifting advice and encouragement and, particularly, by simply believing in me. I am grateful, as ever, for the love and good humour of my sister, Meral.

The final word of thanks must go to Alan D. Donaldson, who, unfortunately, is no longer with us. Alans unstinting love, patience, sense of humour, bright mind and gentle spirit have guided my doctoral research in Glasgow and, at a deeper level, have rendered the completion of this book possible. This book is dedicated to Alan and his memory.

Ingi Iusmen
February 2013