Dr. Cornelia Baciu

Biography

Cornelia Baciu is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Center for Military Studies, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen. Her research focuses on institutions, norms, orders, and international conflict. She is developing a research agenda that aims to introduce the notion of 'order' which is understood through the expressivist interplay of governance processes, state institutions, and everyday power relations. Baciu investigates evolutionary stable peaceful equilibria achieved under conditions of institutional change, looking empirically at case studies of established democratic orders alongside hybrid and fragile orders. Her specialization lies in meta-science, emphasizing epistemological pluralism in research methods. Prior to her current position, Baciu was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg, and she has held fellowships and visiting researcher positions at institutions including Johns Hopkins University and Jawaharlal Nehru University. She holds degrees from Dublin City University, Konstanz University, and Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, and has conducted extensive field research in conflict zones in South Asia. Baciu has published two books and several journal articles related to global governance and institutions, and her research has received funding from various prestigious sources.

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