April 2024
Tucker Carlson, the television host, conducted a two-hour interview with Vladimir Putin, the President of the Russian Federation[1]. This discussion took place in Moscow on February 6, 2024. The central topic of the interview was the justification for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Putin presented perspectives related to the history of Russia and Ukraine, while Carlson avoided critical questions and avoided seeking clarifications.
By Rufin Zamfir
June 2014
Academia.edu
In the context of an increasingly unstable Eastern neighbourhood, marked by Crimea’s annexation by Russia, the ensuing conflict in Ukraine, Bosnia and Herzegovina’s failure in moving beyond the Dayton Agreement and consolidating as a state, the role of Romania (as outline also in the conclusion of the NATO Summit in Wales) is becoming extremely important.
By Oana Popescu
May 2014
Club Romania
Oana Popescu’s paper, “The anonymous revolutions around the world”, is part of an open collaborative project gathering the works of 59 contemporary authors and leaders from a broad array of fields. Under the title “7 fundamental themes for Romania”, the volume is the first of its kind in Romania.
By Oana Popescu
June 2013
Stratfor
Central-Eastern Europe has been feeling the earth slipping beneath its feet, as it has been losing precisely these cherished boons. Instead, it has found itself sandwiched between an increasingly aggressive Russia, an EU in crisis and growing disunity, a more stand-offish and disengaged United States and now a more and more unstable and unpredictable vicinity.
By Oana Popescu
March 2013
Aspen Institute
As both NATO and EU seem to be grappling for their identities and so is the Euro-Atlantic relationship, Central European countries find the pillars of their sense of security gone and their perspectives for prosperity dimmed.
By Oana Popescu
January 2013
Aspen Institute
The recent political developments in Romania could be a lesson in the dynamics of EU democracy at a time when the EU is struggling with new nationalisms and democratic deficit—if the EU is not too busy with eurozone stability, to the detriment of quality of governance.
Read more at http://www.aspeninstitute.cz/en/article/1-2013-do-not-always-fear-when-democracy-takes-to-the-streets/
By Oana Popescu
November 2012
Stratfor
For the first time in many years, the most vulnerable flanks of the EU and NATO are internally weak, while also facing pressure from outside.
Read more at https://www.stratfor.com/the-hub/perils-periphery