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Luciana Alexandra GHICA studied Political Science and International Relations at the University of Bucharest (Bachelor of Political Science in French), Central European University (Budapest) and University of Oxford (UK). She has been teaching at FSPUB since 2004, where she has contributed to the establishment of several initiatives and programs, including the Professional Program in International Relations and European Studies (ProRISE), which later became the IDC Research Centre – Centre for Development Studies and International Cooperation, as well as the BA in International Relations and European Studies (IRES) and MA in International public Affairs (MIPA) degree programs in English, which she currently coordinates.
Current research projects
Project Director
EU as a Global Digital Actor (EU-GlobalDigi), Erasmus+ programme - Jean Monnet module (ERASMUS-JMO-2024-HEI-TCH-RSCH), project no. 101177125 (01/09/2024 to 31/08/2027)
Country manager & researcher
Digital Diplomacy: Building the Common Future with Technology (DD-TECH), Erasmus+ programme – KA2 – Cooperation partnerships in higher education, project no. 2021-1-TR01-KA220-HED-000027609 (28/02/2022 to 27/02/2025), https://www.digitaldiplomat.eu/
Researcher
Trust in European Democracies (TrueDEM), European Research Executive Agency HORIZON-CL2-2022-DEMOCRACY-01, project no. 101095237, 01/01/2023 to 31/12/2025), https://www.truedem.eu/
Recent publications
GHICA, Luciana Alexandra & Claudiu D. TUFIȘ (2025) The landscape of political science journals in Romania. European Political Science (online first), https://doi.org/10.1057/s41304-025-00547-3
GHICA, Luciana Alexandra (2024) Transforming International Development: Navigating the Shift towards Digital Cooperation. In The Oxford Handbook of Digital Diplomacy, eds. Corneliu Bjola & Ilan Manor. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 250-268. ISBN 9780192859198.
GHICA, Luciana Alexandra (2021) Who Are We? The Diversity Puzzle in European Political Science. European Political Science 20(1): 58-84, https://doi.org/10.1057/s41304-021-00319-9
GHICA, Luciana Alexandra (2020) From Imagined Disciplinary Communities to Professional Solidarity: Political Science in Postcommunist Europe. In Political Science in Europe: Achievements, Challenges, Prospects, eds. Thibaud Boncourt, Isabelle Engeli, Diego Garzia. Rowman & Littlefield / ECPR Press, pp. 159-78. ISBN 9781785523113.
FURNESS, Mark, Luciana-Alexandra GHICA, Simon LIGHTFOOT, Balazs SZENT-IVÁNYI (2020) EU Development Policy: Evolving as an Instrument of Foreign Policy and as an Expression of Solidarity. Journal of Comparative European Research 16(2): 89-100, https://doi.org/10.30950/jcer.v16i2.1156
