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Books and Major Projects

• Total Defence: An EU Grand Strategy for the 21st Century (book project)
• Anghel, Veronica & Erik Jones. From Club to Commons: Enlargement, Reform and Sustainability in European Integration (Cambridge University Press, 2025)

Selected Flagship Articles

• “Why the EU is a Geopolitical Power: Wartime Enlargement, Integration and Reform” (Journal of European Public Policy, 2025)
• “The Enlargement of International Organizations” (West European Politics, 2025)
• “Europe’s Delayed Reckoning With Russia” (Foreign Affairs, 2025)
• “Is Europe Really Forged through Crisis? Pandemic EU and the Russia–Ukraine War” (JEPP, 2023)

European Security and Grand Strategy

Journal Articles

• “Why the EU is a Geopolitical Power: Wartime Enlargement, Integration and Reform” (JEPP, 2025)
• “The Geopolitics of EU Enlargement: From Club to Commons” (Survival, 2024)
• “The Transatlantic Relationship and the Russia–Ukraine War” (Political Science Quarterly, 2024)
• “How Wars Don’t End” (Environment and Planning C, 2024)

Work in Progress

• “Is Total Defence the EU’s First Grand Strategy?”
• “How Does World Order Unravel: Allied (In)coordination, Crises Domino Effects and Expert Threat Perceptions”

EU Enlargement and European Geopolitics

Books

• From Club to Commons (2025)

Journal Articles

• “The Geopolitics of EU Enlargement” (Survival, 2024)
• “Wartime EU: Consequences of the Russia–Ukraine War on the Enlargement Process” (Journal of European Integration, 2023)
• “Failing Forward in Eastern Enlargement” (JEPP, 2022)
• “The Enlargement of International Organizations” (West European Politics, 2025)

Book Chapters

• “EU Enlargement and Dissensus over Liberal Democracy” (forthcoming, 2026)
• “Broken Promises Diplomacy: The Russia–Ukraine War and the End of Enlargement as We Know It” (2023)

Datasets and Research Infrastructure

• Global Risks to the EU 2025 (RISK-EU)
• Global Risks to the EU 2026 (RISK-EU)

Democracy, Institutions, and Political Contestation

Journal Articles

• “What Went Wrong in Hungary” (Journal of Democracy, 2024)
• “COVID-19 Related Anxieties Do Not Decrease Support for Liberal Democracy” (EJPR, 2023)
• “Right-Wing Authoritarian Attitudes, Fast-Paced Decision-Making, and the Spread of Misinformation” (Political Communication, 2023)
• “Riders on the Storm” (East European Politics, 2022)

Book Chapters

• “Informal Institutions: The World’s Open Secrets” (2022)

Work in Progress

• “What Drives Low Public Support for Ukraine among EU Citizens?”

Domestic Politics, Parties, and Coalition Governance

Edited Volume

• Developments in European Politics 3 (2022)

Journal Articles

• “Romania’s Postponed Reckoning: A Rerun Election Averted Autocracy but Left Democracy in Peril” (Foreign Affairs, 2025)
• “Under the Influence” (Government & Opposition, 2019)
• “Why Can’t We Be Friends?” (East European Politics and Societies, 2018)
• “Alliance Building Strategies in Post-Communist Romania” (2017)

Book Chapters

• “Live Fast, Die Young: Crises Effects on Coalition Life Cycles” (2024)
• “Minority Cabinets in Romania” (2023)
• “The Institutionalisation of Parties and Coalitions in Romania” (2019)

For a chronological list of publications, download my CV.