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One line, for TV captionsMarius Ghincea, political scientist at ETH Zurich.

Short, about 50 words, for radio and podcast introductionsMarius Ghincea is a political scientist at ETH Zurich, where he studies European security and the geopolitics of European integration. He serves in several advisory capacities in Romania and co-founded the Bucharest-based Quartet Institute.

Full, about 150 words, for print and event programmesMarius Ghincea is a postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zurich’s Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences. His research examines how great power competition shapes European integration, as well as the domestic politics of foreign and security policy. He received his PhD from the European University Institute in 2024. His work appears in West European Politics, the Journal of European Public Policy and Foreign Policy Analysis. Beyond academia, he serves on the Advisory Board of the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, contributes to the Romanian Presidential Administration’s standing advisory group on European affairs, and co-founded the Quartet Institute. He comments regularly on European security, EU affairs, and Romanian foreign policy in international and Romanian media.

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Topics I can speak on

  • European security and NATO, including the Black Sea region
  • Romanian foreign and security policy
  • EU enlargement and the geopolitics of European integration
  • Great power competition in Europe: the United States, Russia, and China
  • Military aid to Ukraine and the domestic politics of foreign policy

Practical details

  • Interview languages: Romanian and English
  • Media contact: marius.ghincea@eup.gess.ethz.ch
  • Time zone: Central European Time (Zurich)
  • Preferred attribution: “Marius Ghincea, researcher or political scientist at ETH Zurich”. Please do not use “professor”.
  • Name pronunciation: MAH-ree-oos GHIN-cha (hard G, as in “gift”)

Appearances

Interviews, quotes and broadcasts in English, Romanian, French and Polish, newest first. My own essays and op-eds are under Commentary.

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