Cornelia-Adriana Baciu is a final year PhD candidate in International Security at the School of Law and Government, Dublin City University and a Government of Ireland Postgraduate Fellow. Her research focuses on European security, foreign policy and strategy, civil-military relations, regime complexity and research methods. She was a pre-doctoral fellow of the ZEIT Foundation Hamburg and worked as a security risk analyst at a crisis management enterprise in Konstanz, Germany. She studied Politics and European Studies in Germany, India and Romania and was awarded the VEUK Prize for her MA degree at the University of Konstanz, Germany. In 2018, she founded the transnational Research Network European Security and Strategy.Professor John Doyle is Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Dublin City University and the founding Director of the Institute for International Conflict Resolution and Reconstruction (IICRR) in Ireland. He has been thelead PI on two Marie Curie European Training Networks on the post-Soviet region (TENSIONS AND CASPIAN) and has taken part in several studies of comparative peace processes, including two EU funded projects. His work on conflict resolution and the future of peace has been published among other places in the Journal of Common Market Studies, Ethnopolitics and International Peacekeeping.
