Antonia Pup

Researcher on Foreign and Security Policy

Antonia-Laura Pup is a an affiliated expert, working on the Economic Statecraft Initiative. She currently pursues a Ph.D. in Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute (EUI), with a thesis on the EU's strategic autonomy. She is a graduate of Georgetown University's Walsh School of Foreign Service in Washington, D.C., with an MA in Security Studies, where she specialized in technology and national security policy and completed her master's degree as the Graduate Class Marshal and Fulbright scholar, and has an MA degree in International Security from Sciences Po Paris.

Previously, Antonia served as a parliamentary adviser to the Chair of the Defence Committee in Romania's Chamber of Deputies. She was also a Fellow with the U.S. House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party in the U.S. Congress.

Antonia’s research agenda is focused on analyzing Romanian foreign and security policy, transatlantic partnership dynamics, China’s influence in the Black Sea region, and technology diplomacy. Her byline appeared in the Small Wars Journal, Georgetown Security Studies Review, International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, The Cipher Brief, National Interest, and EU Reporter.