Analyses
Policy briefs, reports, commentary and academic publications by Quartet researchers.
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Academic publication
Steering or Building? How Crisis Type Shapes Organizational Change in the EU
The article examines how the type of crisis the European Union faces shapes change in its institutional organisation: when a crisis leads the EU to strengthen its capacity to steer, and when…
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Academic publication
Crisis Windows and Reversible Empowerment in the EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy
The article studies the EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy and how crises open windows in which European institutions gain new powers, powers that member states can later take back.
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Academic publication
Ukraine
Chapter on Ukraine in the Palgrave atlas of state and quasi-state actors in great power competition.
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Academic publication
The political economy of civil–intelligence relations under the Iohannis presidency (in Romanian)
The chapter offers a framework for relations between politicians and the intelligence services: when competition between patronal and clientelist networks is intense, secret information, surveillance and access to coercive institutions gain political…
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Academic publication
Between the Hill and Aleea Alexandru: Romanian foreign policy in the Iohannis era (in Romanian)
Chapter on Romanian foreign policy during Klaus Iohannis’s two terms, in an edited volume that asks whether his presidency defines a distinct political era.
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Book
More visibility: Romanian foreign policy in a European and global context (in Romanian)
Edited volume, coordinated by Marius Ghincea and Cristian Chiscop, on Romanian foreign policy in its European and global context, published by Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Romania. In Romanian.
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Academic publication
Decision no. 615/2024 of the Constitutional Court of Romania: marking a shift in jurisprudence on legislative review and market regulation in the road transport sector
Commentary on Decision no. 615/2024 of Romania’s Constitutional Court, which marks a shift in case law on the review of legislation and the regulation of the road transport market.
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Book
The (Geo)politics of EU Enlargement: Romanian Perspectives on the Western Balkans
The book analyses EU enlargement in the Western Balkans from a Romanian perspective, from 2015 to mid-2024, including the effects of the war in Ukraine and regional tensions. It examines Romania’s role…
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Academic publication
From transformation to demarcation: explaining the EU’s shifting motivations of the enlargement policy
Drawing on content analysis of European Council conclusions from 1990 to 2024 and comparative case studies, the article shows that EU enlargement policy has followed three overlapping logics: transformation, stabilisation and demarcation.…