Nicu Popescu
| Address: | European Council on Foreign Relations 5th Floor, Cambridge House 100 Cambridge Grove Hammersmith LONDON W6 0LE |
| E-Mail: | nicu.popescu@ecfr.eu |
| Telephone: | +442070310229 |
Project
Europe’s Unrecognised Neighbours: EU policies towards the “frozen conflicts”
The project studuied EU policies towards the secessionist entities in Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Nagorno-Karabakh and Transnistria. Despite the fact that these entities do not exist on the map, they seriously affect the whole set of bilateral and multilateral EU relations with its Eastern neighbours. For Nicu Popescu's latest publications, articles and blogs visit www.npopescu.eu
Expertise
Publications
2009
- Popescu, Nicu: The Limits of Enlargement-lite: European and Russian Power in the Troubled Neighbourhood, Policy Paper, European Council on Foreign Relations, London (with Andrew Wilson)
- Popescu, Nicu: The "Sovereign Neighbourhood": Weak Statehood Strategies in Eastern Europe, The International Spectator: Italian Journal of International Affairs, 44:1, March 2009
- Popescu, Nicu: Moldova's fragile pluralism, in Democracy’s Plight in the European Neighbourhood: Struggling transitions and proliferating dynasties, edited by Michael Emerson and Richard Youngs, CEPS, Brussels, October 2009 (with Andrew Wilson)
- Popescu, Nicu: The Future of EU-Russia Relations: A Way Forward in Solidarity and the Rule of Law, European Parliament Briefing Paper
- Popescu, Nicu: Re-setting the Eastern Partnership in Moldova, Policy Brief 199, Centre for European Policy Studies, November 2009, Brussels.
- Popescu, Nicu: EU and the Eastern Neighbourhood: Reluctant Involvement in Conflict Resolution, in European Foreign Affairs Review 14:4, 2009.
2007
- Popescu, Nicu: Europe’s Unrecognised Neighbours: The EU in Abkhazia and South Ossetia, CEPS Working Document 260, 15 March 2007, Brussels.
- Popescu, Nicu / George Dura: Moldova, in: Nations in Transit 2007, Annual Freedom House survey, New York
- Popescu, Nicu: A Power Audit of EU-Russia Relations, Policy Paper, European Council on Foreign Relations, London (with Mark Leonard)
- Michael Emerson / Noutcheva, Gergana / Popescu, Nicu: "European Neighbourhood Policy Two Years on: Time indeed for an ‘ENP Plus", CEPS Policy Brief 126, 21 March 2007, Brussels.
- Dura, George / Popescu, Nicu: "Moldova" Country Chapter, in "Nations in Transit 2007", Freedom House, Budapest, 2007
2006
- Popescu, Nicu: Abkhazia i Yuzhnaya Ossetia: nezavisimost ili vyzhivanie? [Abkhazia and South Ossetia : independence or survival?], in: Pro et Contra Vol. 10, No. 5-6 (34), 2006, Carnegie Moscow Center, pp. 40-52.
- Popescu, Nicu: Russia's Soft Power Ambitions, CEPS Policy Brief 115, 27 October 2006, Brussels.
- Popescu, Nicu: Outsourcing De Facto Statehood: Russia and the Secessionist Entities in Georgia and Moldova, CEPS Policy Brief 109, 20 July 2006.
- Popescu, Nicu: Democracy in Secessionism: Transnistria and Abkhazia's Domestic Politics, Report for the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe, CDL-JU (2006) 011, 12 September 2006, Strasbourg
2005
- Popescu, Nicu: Settling Conflicts in the Neighbourhood: the EU and Moldova, Occasional Paper 60, October 2005, EU Institute for Security Studies, Paris. www.iss-eu.org
- Popescu, Nicu: Europeanisation and Conflict Resolution: A View from Moldova, in: Europeanisation and Conflict Resolution (Russian edition), Michael Emerson and Bruno Coppieters (eds), 2005, Ves Mir, Moscow. Also Available in English in: Journal of Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe, Special Focus 2004, http://www.ecmi.de/jemie
2003
- Popescu, Nicu: European Union's Foreign Policy Change towards Moldova , NATO Studies Centre, Strategic Issues Review 4, Bucharest, Politeia-SNSPA, September 2003
CV
Nicu Popescu, PhD is research fellow on Eastern neighbourhood and Russia at the European Council on Foreign Relations, London office. He holds a doctorate in International Relations from the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. In 2005-2007 he was research fellow at CEPS, Brussels. In early 2005 he was a visiting research fellow at the EU Institute for Security Studies in Paris. His main areas of research interests are: the European Neighbourhood Policy, post-soviet secessionist conflicts, and developments in EU’s Eastern neighbourhood.
For Nicu's latest publications, articles and blogs visit www.npopescu.eu
Other Information
For Nicu Popescu\'s latest publications, articles and blogs visit www.npopescu.eu