Reconfiguring EU Peripheries

Miruna Butnaru Troncotă, PhD, is an associate professor, a PhD advisor, and the director of the Centre of European Studies in the Department of International Relations and European Integration of the National University of Political Studies and Public Administration (SNSPA) in Bucharest, Romania. She has a direct research interest in EU integration, the Europeanization research agenda, EU foreign and security policy, and the post-conflict reconstruction of the Western Balkans. She has published numerous academic articles and policy papers in this field and is a commentator on recent geopolitical events in South East Europe for national and international media outlets.

Ali Onur Özçelik, PhD, is an associate professor in the International Relations Department at Eskişehir Osmangazi University, Türkiye. He holds an MA in transatlantic relations from the University of Birmingham and a PhD in politics from the University of Sheffield. His research focuses on Europeanization, multi-level governance, the politics of non-state actors, interest representations, and lobbying. He is co-editor of two books: The World Community and Arab Spring (Palgrave) and EU Conditionality in Turkey: When Does It Work? When Does It Fail? (Rowman & Littlefield). Özçelik has contributed to youth projects supported by the EU and UN and has served as a regional coordinator for the Anatolian Centre of Excellence and a researcher for the Jean Monnet Networking Project ‘Linking to Europe at the Periphery’ (LEAP).

Radu-Alexandru Cucută, PhD, is a lecturer with the Department of International Relations and European Integration of the National University of Political Studies and Public Administration (SNSPA) in Bucharest, Romania. His research interests lie within the fields of theories of revolution and theories of international relations. His most recent writing deals with the influence that liminality has on the use of fashionable concepts in Romania’s strategic documents.