Luciana Alexandra GHICA Political scientist specialized in the analysis of international cooperation processes, with a focus on the external action of the European Union, the international development policies of EU and the emergent donor states, as well as on discursive patterns of such processes. Editor of the first Romanian encyclopaedia of the European Union (c2005, 2nd ed. 2006, 3rd ed. 2007), co-editor of the first Romanian handbook of security studies (2007), and author of a book on the relations between Romania and the European Union (2006), she studied political science and international relations at the University of Bucharest, University of Oxford (UK) and Central European University (Budapest, Hungary), from which she received her PhD. Currently, she is an Associate Professor of International Relations and European Studies at the Faculty of Political Science, University of Bucharest, where she also serves as director of the Centre for International Cooperation and Development Studies and as coordinator of the Romanian series of the Kapuscinski Development Lectures, a joint project of the European Commission, the United Nations Development Programme and top universities across Europe. Contact: [email protected]