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Reference List

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What references have you used for the report?

Romania Expert

Oana Popescu-Zamfir

Director and Founder, GlobalFocus Center, Bucharest

Oana Popescu-Zamfir is Director and Founder of GlobalFocus, an independent foreign policy and strategic analysis thinktank based in Bucharest. Previously, she served as a State Secretary for EU Affairs, Foreign Policy Adviser to the President of the Romanian Senate, Programmes Director of the Aspen Institute Romania, and Senior Editor of the Romanian edition of the journal Foreign Policy. In her earlier career, she was a Journalist covering foreign affairs. Her expertise mainly covers geopolitics and security in the EU/NATO neighbourhood, transatlantic relations, global political risk and strategic analysis, EU policies, democratisation and transitions, hybrid threats and shifting models of governance. Oana is an international Consultant and Media Commentator, as well as Writer and Lecturer. She coordinates international research as well as public and expert strategy events in addition to being Editor-in-chief of Eastern Focus, an international affairs quarterly. She was a Fulbright scholar at Yale University, where she studied emerging threats, post-conflict reconstruction and democratisation, with further executive studies in leadership at Harvard University and on terrorism at University of St Andrew. She has an MA in Conflict Analysis from the National School of Political and Administrative Studies, Bucharest.

Ana Maria Teaca

Senior Research Analyst, Programme Manager, GlobalFocus Center, Bucharest

Ana Maria Teaca is currently working as a Senior Research Analyst and Programme Manager at GlobalFocus, an independent foreign policy and strategic analysis thinktank based in Bucharest. She also worked as a Chief of Staff and EU Affairs Adviser to the State Secretary of EU Affairs in Romania’s Ministry of Labour. She holds an MA in European Studies from the University of Bath and also spent a semester studying International Relations at Humboldt University Berlin while pursuing this degree.

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European Commission (2017). Joint Communication: A Strategic Approach to Resilience in the EU’s External Action.

Parliament of Romania (2002). Law No. 415 of 27 June 2002 on the organisation and functioning of the National Defence Supreme Council.

Parliament of Romania (2004). Law No. 473/2004 on defense planning.

President of Romania (2015). National Defence Strategy 2015–2019: A Strong Romania within Europe and the World.

Interviews: Lt. Col. Constantin Balan (head of the MoD press office); Bogdan Dima (former adviser on constitutional law, Presidential Administration); Cosmin Dobran (adviser on horizontal coordination, Permanent Representation of Romania to the EU); Corina Popa (child protection expert with UNICEF); Anca Stoica (former UNDP country coordinator for Romania); Ana Tinca (MFA Director for Security Policies); Olivia Toderean (MFA Director for Policy Planning); Codru Vrabie (independent expert on constitutional law and anti-corruption)

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