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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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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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Ukraine
Chapter on Ukraine in the Palgrave atlas of state and quasi-state actors in great power competition.
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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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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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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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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.…
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Shrouded in Secrecy: Explaining Why Some Countries Refuse to Disclose Their Military Aid to Ukraine
The research note compares how Romania and Poland disclosed or withheld information about their military aid to Ukraine after Russia’s invasion. It tests three explanations (avoiding domestic backlash, external security concerns and…
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Protracted Transition: The Civilian Control Over the Military and Intelligence
Chapter on civilian control over the military and the intelligence services in Romania, in a volume taking stock of 35 years since the fall of communism.
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Afterword: The Russo-Ukrainian War and Great Power Competition
The afterword to this volume on great powers’ foreign policy discusses the Russo-Ukrainian war through the lens of great power competition.