Georgiana Ciceo
has 12 years of experience in diplomacy, as a diplomat in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania, and almost 20 yearsâ experience of university teaching. She teaches disciplines in the field of European studies (integration theories, European public policies, decision-making processes in the EU). Her research has materialized in five books, including two as a sole author, more than 40 publications in journals and specialized volumes, and more than 20 presentations at national and international conferences. She has continuously developed her activities by engaging in foreign projects and by collaboration activities with partner universities â Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Università di Padova.
Åerban Filip Cioculescu
Ph.D. in Political Science (University of Bucharest), is senior scientific researcher in security studies with the Institute for Political Studies of Defense and Military History in Bucharest and a guest professor (lecturer) at the University of Bucharest, the Department of Political Sciences and European Studies. His areas of interest are: security/strategic studies, international organizations, international relations theories and diplomacy and he is geographically interested in European, and Euro-Atlantic security, but also in East-Asian studies. He has published five books as single author: Introduction into the International Relations Theory (Military Publishing House, 2007), Post-Communist Romania in the Strategic Pattern of the Neighborhoods: the Balkans, the Black Sea and the Greater Middle East (University of Bucharest Publishing House, 2009), Terra incognita? Elements for Mapping the Chaos in International Relations (Military Publishing House, 2010), The Future Will Not Take Prisoners (Rao Books, Bucharest, 2013) and China. From Hidden Brightness to Global Expansion (Cetatea de scaun Publishing House, Targoviste, 2018).
Adrian-Gabriel CorpÄdean
is Associate Professor of European Integration and Dean of the Faculty of European Studies (BabeÈ-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca). His research focuses on the history and future of EU integration, with a focus on the evolution of EU policies and the relations between the EU and other important regional and global actors. Some of his most recent publications include assessments of the EUâs normative power, chiefly in the light of the furthering of the Enlargement Policy, with an obvious focus on the Western Balkans. While having authored more than 50 international publications and conducted numerous
Èerban Georgescu
has been the director of the Department of Asian Studies of the RomanianâAmerican University since 2013 and also the coordinator and founder of the âAngela Hondruâ RomanianâJapanese Studies Center (RomanianâAmerican University) since 2005. Previously, he was an expert advisor at the School of European Economic Studies, RomanianâAmerican University. His current fields of interest are international trade, international economic relations, business communication, crossâcultural communication, internationalization of higher education.
Anda Ghilescu
is currently a Ph.D. candidate in International Relations at BabeÈ-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, with a research interest in American foreign policy towards the Middle East, particularly towards the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. She holds a Masterâs Degree in International Relations from the Faculty of European Studies, BabeÈ-Bolyai University.
Marius Ghincea
is a doctoral researcher at the European University Institute, in Florence, and serves as a teaching assistant at the Johns Hopkinsâ School of Advanced International Studies, Bologna. His research agenda focuses on identity contestation and foreign policy, global political orders, and domestic determinants of foreign policy.
Sergiu MiÈcoiu
is Professor of Political Science at the Faculty of European Studies, Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca (Romania) where he serves as Director of the Centre for International Cooperation and as Director of the Centre for African Studies (Cestaf). He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science (Paris-Est University), a PhD in History (Babes-Bolyai University), and a habilitation in Political Science (Paris-Est University). He is permanent member and PhD tutor of the LIPHA Laboratory at the University Paris-Est (France) and associate professor of the universities of Lille (France), Szeged (Hungary), and Cheikh Anta Diop Dakar (Senegal). He wrote four books, edited and co-edited 22 volumes and wrote 60 scientific articles, mainly in English, French, and Romanian. His main research interests are constructivist and the alternative theories applied
Marius-Mircea Mitrache
holds a double Ph.D. in Political Sciences from Université Paris-Est and in International Relations and European Studies from BabeÈ-Bolyai University. He is currently an independent researcher with an interest in French political thought, European diplomacy, and Franco-German relations. His notable publications include âVox clamantis in deserto. The German and French Peace Movements and the Difficult Dream of Peace during the Great Warâ in Ioan Bolovan, Rudolf Gräf, Harald Heppner, Oana TÄmÄÈ (eds.), World War One, The Other Face of the War, Cluj University Press, 2016 and âMapping East-Central Europe: The Pursuit of Franceâs Milieu Goals (1871â1925)â in Branislav Radeljic (ed.), The Unwanted Europeanness? Understanding Division and Inclusion in Contemporary Europe, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021. In 2014 he co-translated, Auguste de Gérandoâs La Transylvanie et ses habitants, tome 1 from French to Romanian, published by Casa CÄrÈii de ÈtiinÈÄ Publishing House, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Raluca Moldovan
is Associate Professor in the Department of International Relations and German Studies of BabeÈ-Bolyai University Cluj Napoca, where she has been teaching since 2004 at graduate and undergraduate levels. She is a Ph.D. in history with a thesis on the representation of the Holocaust on film. Her more recent research interests include immigration studies, mass media and the contemporary Middle East. She has published numerous scholarly articles on topics ranging from history to mass culture in many Romanian and international journals. She is a member of the European and Romanian Associations of American Studies and the Association for the Study of Nationalities (Columbia University, New York). Among her latest publications is the edited volume The European Union. Policies, Perspectives and Politics (New York, Nova Science Publishers, 2020).
Valentin Naumescu
is Professor of International Relations at BabeÅ-Bolyai University of Cluj and founding President of the think tank The Initiative for European Democratic Culture. Professor Naumescu was Secretary of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2005â2007) and Consul General of Romania in Toronto (2008â2012). Since 2015, Valentin Naumescu has also been an independent expert of the
Agnes Nicolescu
holds a Ph.D. in international relations and European studies from the BabeÅ-Bolyai University Cluj Napoca, with a focus on the relationship between the UK and the EU in the area of security and defense policy in the context of Brexit. She has authored articles ad op-eds covering European affairs issues, foreign and security policy and the implications of Brexit.
RÄzvan Victor Pantelimon
is Lecturer at the Faculty of History and Political Science, Ovidius University of ConstanÅ£a. He holds a Ph.D. in political science with a thesis on Europe and the Americas: Constitutions, Doctrines and Political Institutions, from the Department of Politics, Institutions and History, University of Bologna, Italy and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the Faculty of Political Science, University of Bucharest. He has pursued post-doctoral studies at RomaTre University in Rome in the framework of the âEuropaeusâ International Project. He has been visiting lecturer/researcher in Chile, Italy, Spain and Portugal. He is a member of the Latin-American Association for Political Science and of the European Network of Information and Documentation on Latin America. His main research interests include: Latin Americaâs political systems and regional relations, populism and neo-populist discourse, historical memory, transition and democratic consolidation, new types of political parties, socialist and leftist ideologies and parties in Latin America, Latin-American political theories and thinkers, electoral campaigns. As of late, he has published various articles and book chapters (at prestigious publishing houses like: Tirant Lo Blanch â Valencia, Peter Lang Publishing â Brussels, Archaeopress â Oxford, Publisher of the Institute for Political Sciences and International Relations of the Romanian Academy â Bucharest etc).
Diana Peca
is the executive director of the Department of Asian Studies of the RomanianâAmerican University and the coordinator and co-founder of the RomanianâKorean Studies Center of the same University (since 2013). She has formerly worked in international tourism and consultancy. Her fields
Dorin Popescu
is the president and founder of the think-tank Black Sea House Association, Constanta, Romania, specialized in the wider Black Sea regionâs security and politics. He is the coordinator of Constanta branch of the think-tank The Initiative for European Democratic Culture, specialized in international politics. He also has diplomatic experience, having served as Romanian diplomat in Moscow (3rd secretary, 2002â2006), Chernivtsi (counsellor, 2007â2011) and Sarajevo (ministry-counsellor, Deputy Head of Mission, 2012â2016). He has published four books (including Prisoners at the Hybrid Pontus, 2020) and about 200 analyses and studies on international politics. He is advisor for international relations at the Constanta City Hall, Romania.
Stefan Popescu
holds a Ph.D. in history of international relations from Paris 1âSorbonne (Summa cum laude). In addition, he has joint a MA degree in geopolitics from ENS and Paris 1âSorbonne, a second MA in history of international relations from Paris 1âSorbonne. An Associate professor at the National University of Political Studies and Administration in Bucharest, Stefan has been Secretary of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania. In the past, he interned with French Ministry of Defense on nuclear and anti-missile deterrence, worked as an adviser at La Francophonie High Council, office of the former UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali; as an adviser to the Romanian Minister of Foreign Affairs; general director for external cooperation at the Romanian Cultural Institute; sr. analyst at Romania Energy Center (ROEC); and adviser to the Delegate Minister of European Affairs. He is also a foreign affairs columnist and analyst. He is the co-author of the âNATO Warsaw Summit & Beyond. Special Reportâ published by ROEC and NATO Public Diplomacy Division (2016).