is Professor of International Relations at Chernivtsi National University. He has conducted his research at the Kennan Institute (2010-2011), where he studied the basic parameters and principal factors forming US-European joint security policy in the Newly Independent States of Europe and Eurasia region. He has published European security dimensions on the post-soviet space: Formation of integrated security system of West and the Newly Independent States (Chernivtsi, 2005), as well as numerous articles on democratization, European integration and security, and Ukraine’s foreign policy.
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is a PhD candidate in Management and Development of Cultural Heritage at IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, a graduate from PhD program at the Academy of Sciences of Moldova, and a Central European University History Department alumna. She has written on the intellectual construction of Russian literary pantheon in 19th and 20th centuries and is currently working on the topic of (mis)management of Jewish built heritage in the urban environment of Eastern Europe. Her academic interests include: Russian and East-Central European studies, the intersection of literature and politics, the politics of commemoration, cultural heritage studies and protection, etc.
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is a senior researcher at the Museum of Dacian and Roman Civilization in Deva. He specialises in Ancient History, being especially interested in the Second Iron Age. His presentations and studies were centred mainly on the La Tène and Dacian civilizations in Transylvania. His 2007 Doctoral Thesis at the Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca was published in the same year under the title: The Celts of the Middle Mureș Valley. The author is certified by the Romanian Ministry of Culture as expert archaeologist and an expert in national cultural heritage goods. The activity he carried out at the museum over more than two decades was oriented toward three main directions: archaeological research, the research, inventory, and ranking of the mobile national cultural heritage, and raising the profile of the mobile national cultural heritage. He participated in archaeological research and designed and led the investigations on sites such as SighișoaraWietenberg, Divici-Grad, Șeușa-La Cărarea Morii, Alun-Piatra Roșie, ArdeuCetățuie, Tărtăria-Pietroșița, Unip-Dealul Cetățuica, and others. The author published, alone or collaboratively, over 100 studies, papers, and books, organised numerous exhibits, and presented the results of his work at multiple national and international conferences, symposia, colloquia, and round table discussions. He organised or co-organized 12 national and international conferences. Since 2018 he has been teaching Military Archaeology and Habitat Archaeology courses within the master’s degree curriculum of the West University of Timișoara. ORCID No: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9510-0052
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is a researcher at the Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities (Cluj-Napoca). She holds a PhD in history (2013) at the Babeş-Bolyai University of Cluj, with a published thesis titled Cărturarii provinciei. Intelectuali și cultură locală în nordul Moldovei interbelice [The Scribes of the Province. Intellectuals and Local Culture in Northern Moldavia] (Iaşi, European Institute, 2015). A. Filipovici is also the author of articles and studies exploring the topics of ethnicity, Jewish history and anti-Semitism, and the history of youth and education. She was a fellow of European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (2018) and New Europe College (2018/2019), conducting research projects on secondary schools, youth organizations and the social control of the adolescents in 20th century Romania.
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is the Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) and the Mosbacher Director of FSI's Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL). He is also a professor by courtesy in the Department of Political Science. He was previously at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of Johns Hopkins University, where he was the Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy and director of SAIS' International Development program. Dr. Fukuyama has written widely on issues relating to questions concerning democratization and international political economy. His book, The End of History and the Last Man, was published by Free Press in 1992 and has appeared in over twenty foreign editions. His most recent book is Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy. Francis Fukuyama received his B.A. from Cornell University in classics, and his Ph.D. from Harvard in Political Science. He was a member of the Political Science Department of the RAND Corporation, and twice member of the Policy Planning Staff of the US Department of State. From 1996-2000 he was Omer L. and Nancy Hirst Professor of Public Policy at the School of Public Policy at George Mason University. He served as a member of the President's Council on Bioethics from 2001-2004. Dr. Fukuyama is chairman of the editorial board of The American Interest, which he helped to found in 2005. He holds honorary doctorates from Connecticut College, Doane College, Doshisha University (Japan), and Kansai University (Japan). He is a member of the Board of Governors of the Pardee Rand Graduate School, and of the Volcker Alliance. He is a member of the American Political Science Association and the Council on Foreign Relations. He is married to Laura Holmgren and has three children.
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