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Staff Profile: Nicu Popescu

Recent Commentary

• Of euro-pessimism and failures
  15 Dec 09
• EU-Armenia: high-level, but low-profile
  12 Oct 09
• EU’s failure in Georgia
  04 Oct 09
• Russian and EU powers of attraction
  13 Sep 09
• The EU’s decline as viewed by Russia
  25 Aug 09
• Moldova defies post-Soviet traditions
  17 Aug 09
• Go east, Sweden
  31 Jul 09
• Elections in Moldova. Again.
  27 Jul 09
• The summer of eastern Europe's discontent
  20 Jul 09
• The end of “de facto states”
  13 Jul 09

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Nicu Popescu, PhD is Research Fellow on the EU's Eastern neighbourhood and Russia. He holds a doctorate in International Relations from the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary.

In 2005-2007, Nicu was research fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels and was previously a visiting fellow at the EU Institute for Security Studies, Paris.

Nicu runs a blog on the EU's neighbourhood and Russia for the EU Observer (in English) and a foreign policy blog in Romanian. A full list of his publications is available on his website.  

Languages: English, French, Russian and Romanian.

Areas of expertise: the European Neighbourhood Policy, secessionist conflicts in the post-soviet space, EU relations with Russia, Moldova, Ukraine and the South Caucasus.

Contact details: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address), Mobile: +44 7795 312467 

ECFR publications:

Supporting Moldova's democratic transition, policy memo, published 12 October 2009.

The limits of enlargement-lite: European and Russian power in the troubled neighbourhood, report, published 16 June 2009.

Can the EU win peace in Georgia?, policy brief, published 25 August 2008. 

A power audit of EU-Russia relations, report, published 7 November 2007.

Othe recent publications include:

The Future of EU-Russia Relations: A Way Forward in Solidarity and Rule of Law, Briefing Paper, European Parliament, February 2009. 

"Can the EU win the peace in Georgia?", ECRF Policy Brief, 24 August 2008.

"Internationalizing the Georgia-Abkhazia Conflict Resolution Process: Why a Greater European Role is Needed", GMF Policy Brief; with Ron Asmus, Svante E. Cornell, and Antje Herrberg, June 2008.

"A Power Audit of EU-Russia Relations", co-authored with Mark Leonard, Policy Paper 1, European Council on Foreign Relations, November 2007.

European Neighbourhood Policy Two Years on: Time indeed for an ‘ENP Plus. Michael Emerson, Gergana Noutcheva, Nicu Popescu, CEPS Policy Brief 126, 21 March 2007, Brussels.

Europe's Unrecognised Neighbours: The EU in Abkhazia and South Ossetia. CEPS Working Document 260, 15 March 2007, Brussels.

Abkhazia and South Ossetia: independence or survival? in Pro et Contra Vol. 10, Nr. 5-6 (34), 2006, Carnegie Moscow Center, pp. 40-52. (In Russian)

Russia's Soft Power Ambitions. CEPS Policy Brief 115, 27 October 2006, Brussels.

Outsourcing De Facto Statehood: Russia and the Secessionist Entities in Georgia and Moldova. CEPS Policy Brief 109, 20 July 2006.

Moldova in Nations in Transit 2006, Freedom House, Co-authored with George Dura.