Radu-Alexandru Cucută – editor in chief

Radu-Alexandru Cucută is a Ph.D. candidate with the NSPAS. He graduated in Political Science with the same university and holds a MA in International Relations. He took part in the CSIS and Infopolitic projects. He currently works as political analyst with Infopolitic. He is editor of the “Cadran politic” journal. His fields of interest are the theories of revolution and theories of international relations.

Simona Soare – editor

Simona Soare is Executive Director of the Center for East European and Asian Studies (CEEAS – www.cseea.ro). She is also a researcher with the Institute for Political Studies of Defense and Military History of the National of the Romanian Ministry for National Defense. She is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Sciences and holds a MA in International Relations with the NSPAS and is a Political Science graduate of the same university. She has worked as an analyst for The Center for International and Security Studies (CSIS) in Bucharest, Romania, where she coordinated research and publications of the Former Soviet Space and Asia-Pacific departments.

Among her publications we mention: Andrei Miroiu, Simona Soare, Politica de Securitate a României (1878 - 2006). O Perspectivă Istorică in Politica de Securitate Naţională. Concepte, Instituţii, Procese, coord. Luciana-Alexandra Ghica şi Marian Zulean, Ed. Polirom, Iaşi, 2007; Andrei Miroiu, Simona Soare, "Realismul", "Balanţa puterii", "Alianţele militare", "Război şi securitate nucleară", in Manual de Relaţii Internaţionale coord. Andrei Miroiu şi Radu-Sebastian Ungureanu, Ed. Polirom, Iaşi, 2006; Simona Soare, “Asia-Pacific Security Architecture: Just “New” Tools for Old Problems?,” CEEAS Occasional Papers  no 1, July 2009, forthcoming; Simona Soare, “The Trials and Tribulations of the Russian Military-Industrial Complex’s Reform”, Monitor Strategic, no 3-4/2008; Simona Soare, „Complexul Industrial de Apărare al Federaţiei Ruse: Şansă pierdută de reformă sau strategie de dezvoltare sutenabilă?”, Echidistante, no. 3-4/51-52 2008; Simona Soare, Romania’s National Security Strategy. A Critical Approach of Transformational Politics”, Monitor Strategic, no 1-2/2008.

Horia Bărbulescu – editor

Horia Bărbulescu is a Ph.D. student of international relations with the National School of Political Studies and Public Administration in Bucharest (SNSPA). He has an M.A. in International Relations and European Integration and a B.A. in Political Science (minor in International Relations) from the National School of Political Studies and Public Administration in Bucharest. He holds a particular interest in research regarding security studies (with a focus on the impact of security identity in the Middle East and the ex-soviet area) and the theory of international relations. He is editor of the Journal of East-European and Asian Studies edited and published by the CEEAS.

Angela Grămadă – assistant editor

Is a graduate of National School of Political and Administrative Studies (NSPAS), Bucharest (2005 - 2007), in the field of International Relations and European Integration; University degree in International Economic Relations at the Institute of International Relations “Perpspectiva”, Chisinau (2004). She is a Phd Candidate at the NSPAS (2008). Angela Gramada is a lector at University “Perspectiva - INT”, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova. Fields of interest: the debat of Russian Federation with the interests of the United States in post-soviet space.

Publications: Angela Grămadă, Evolution of the Russian-American relations from the perspective debates multilateralism/unilateralism, P.H. Lumen, Iasi, 2007; Angela Grămadă, “Ethnic conflicts in a United Europe or how the Europeans accept the ethnic diversity of their citizens”, Annual conference of the „Perspectiva-INT” University, 2008, Republic of Moldova in the General Preferencies program and the European Neighborhood Policy, Annual conference of the „Perspectiva-INT” University, 2007; Transition of the Central European and Easter European countries to the market economy. Comparative analysis, Annual Student Conference  IRI „Perspectiva”, 2003

Aliona Negoiţă – assistant editor

Is a Phd candidate in political sciences with the NSPAS. She holds a MA with the same university and is a History graduate of the State University of Moldova in Chişinău (1999). Her fields of interest is that of the European or regional integration theories, the democratization processin the ex-Soviet space (predominantly in Belarus and Ukraine). Among her publications are Aliona Negoiţă, "Politici de securitate: statele Baltice vs Republica Moldova" in Monitor Strategic, 2007; Aliona Negoiţă, "Istoriografia contemporană a oraşului medieval românesc" in Analele Ştiinţifice ale Universităţii de Stat din Moldova, 1999, Aliona Negoiţă, "Cehoslovacia - 1968", Glasul Naţiunii, 1998

Daniela Şişcanu – assistant editor

Is a research assistant with the Institute for Political Studies of Defense and Military History of the National of the Ministry for National Defense. She is a Phd. Candidate with the NSPAS and holds a MA with the same university, being a Law graduate of the “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University in Iaşi. She has worked as Faculty Adviser for NATO Senior Executive Master with the NATO Studies Center in Bucharest and has collaborated with the Center for Conflict Prevention and Early Warining in Bucharest.