Postgraduate Researchers
Cristian Nitoiu Email C.Nitoiu@lboro.ac.uk Department of Politics, History and International Relations |
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Biography
Before joining the department as a PhD student in 2010 I studied at the University of Nottingham (MA research track in International Relations, 2009- 2010) and the University of Bucharest (BA in International Relations and European Studies, 2006-2009). My doctoral research deals with the way the views of individuals and groups of individuals (general public) from the EU influence the discursive construction and the practical actions within the Union’s foreign policy. The views of the general public are informed and shaped by the public sphere. Through the activity of the public sphere the views of the general public come to be heard political actors who may or may not adopt their policy or rhetoric to them. My research seeks to fill the gap the literature on European foreign policy by engaging with the link between the general public, public sphere and decision making processes within EU foreign policy.
Publications
Forthcoming. Normative Narratives of EU foreign policy in the Black Sea Region, in Ruxandra Ivan (ed.) New Regionalism or No Regionalism? The emerging regionalism in the Black Sea Area, Ashgate.
Forthcoming. Normative power: an end game in the EU’s Eastern Neighbourhood, in Scott Romaniuk (ed.) Troubled Neighbours: The EU, Russia and the European Order
Forthcoming. National interest of CEE EU members and their impact on the Union’s role as an international actor. Europe – Asia Studies.
2010. The role of the EU as an international actor after the Lisbon treaty, Sfera Politicii 151.
2009. Normative aspects of EU policy towards the Western Balkans: Lessons from the Central and East European Integration. Analytica 2(2)
2009. The Deconstruction of the Romanian Parliament. Sfera Politcii 140.
2009. The European brings a Balance of Power in the Black Sea Region. Romanian Journal of European Affairs 7(3).
2009. The nostalgias of Russia. Foreign Policy, Romanian ed., nr. 1(10).
2009. Balance of Power in the Black Sea Region. Budapest: Publikon, .
Conference Papers
‘Normative Narratives of EU foreign policy in the Black Sea Region’, 1st EURECO International Conference, Europe in the World: Challenges and Dynamics, University of Copenhagen, 1-2 September 2010.
‘The base of EU normative power’, New Regionalism, Emergent Powers and the Future of Security and Governance, Central European University, Budapest, July 2009.
Awards
Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities Studentship, Loughborough University, 2010 –
School of Politics and International Relations Scholarship, University of Nottingham 2009-2010.
Romanian State Scholarship for Scientific Achievements, University of Bucharest 2008 – 2009.
Foreign Policy magazine Scholarship, 2009.
Winner of grant from the European Parliament to visit the institutions of the EU, 2008.
Winner of grant from NATO to visit its headquarters in Brussels, 2007.
Memberships
Member of University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES)
Other Professional Activities
Selected with scholarship to participate in the research course ‘New Regionalism, Emergent Powers and the Future of Security and Governance’, CEU Summer University, Budapest, June-September 2009.
Selected to participate in the on-line training course ‘Sustainable Human Development’, organized by CEU Budapest and the UN Development Program, March-May 2009.
Internship (research) at the Black Sea Trust, German Marshall Fund, Bucharest, 2008.
Internship at the UN Information Centre in Romania, Bucharest, 2008.
Media Assistant at the 2008 NATO Summit in Bucharest, Bucharest, 2008.