Academic experience

Logic of honour, logic of practice – work in progress 

Effective reflections bite but do not offend: Some Bourdieuian ‘how-to’ suggestions for policy feed-back, International Studies Association Meeting, San Diego

Just deserts or the logic of honour in the international political field, International Studies Association Meeting, Montreal

Let’s collapse unnecessary differences: through dialogue, Millennium: Journal of International Studies Annual Conference: “International relations in dialogue”

Privatisation and state-building in the Western Balkans, Amsterdam School of Social Research

Diplomatic negotiators in the international political field: Narrating peace and conflict in the former Yugoslavia, International Studies Association Meeting, San Francisco

Graduating from assisted statehood in the Western Balkans: The case of Bosnia and Herzegovina, International Studies Association Meeting, San Francisco

Peer-reviewed academic publications

Book

Democratising capitalism? The political economy of post-communist transformations in Romania, 1989-2001 (Manchester: Manchester University Press).

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Articles and book chapters

Bourdieu in the post-communist world, in The Oxford Handbook of Pierre Bourdieu, Thomas Medvetz, Jeffrey J. Sallaz (eds.) (New York: Oxford University Press), pp. 129-160

Romania: The high and low politics of commercialisation, in Commercialising Security in Europe: Political Consequences for Peace Operations, Anna Leander (ed.) (London: Routledge), pp. 121-140.

Strategic action is not enough: A Bourdieuian approach to EU enlargement, in The European Union’s 2007 Enlargement, Cristian Chiva and David Phinnemore (eds) (London: Routledge) pp. 100-121.

Self-analysis and socio-analysis: Bourdieu’s way, Economy and Society, 40:2, 306-320.

Strategic action is not enough: A Bourdieuian approach to EU enlargement, Perspectives on European Politics and Society, 10: 2, 254-267.

Time and crisis: Framing success and failure in Romania’s post-communist transformations, Review of International Studies, 33: 3, 395-413.

Teorii asupra tranziţiei economice şi politice de sistem, de la socialism la capitalism, în Enciclopedia dezvoltării sociale, Cătălin Zamfir, Simona Stănescu (eds.), Iași: Polirom, pp.588-597

Varieties of capitalism, varieties of theory? Conceptualizing paths of change and patterns of firm-government interaction across models of market democracy (with Pieter Vanhuysee), Journal of European Public Policy, 11:1, pp. 167-177.

Where the domestic meets the international: The role of the IFIs and the EU in Romania’s post-communist transformations, Romanian Journal of Society and Politics, 2:2, pp. 158-187.

Courses taught in higher education (UK and Romania)

International political economy (undergraduate, postgraduate)

Theories and theorists of international political economy (postgraduate)

Politics of globalisation (postgraduate)

Contemporary European Politics, Term 2: Central and East European Politics (undergraduate)

Politics of West and Central Europe, Term 2: Politics of Central Europe (postgraduate)

Politics of European Integration, Term 2: Policy-making in the EU (undergraduate)

Introduction to politics (undergraduate seminars)

Introduction to international relations (undergraduate)

Mass-media, society and culture (undergraduate)

Training courses for policy-makers funded by international organizations

What is effective policy? (Bosnia and Herzegovina, funded by OSCE)

Introduction to international political economy (Armenia, funded by UNDP)