Articles by Laurențiu Pleșca

July 15, 2025

🧭 Enlargement reimagined: the shifting logics behind the EU’s expansion

Laurențiu Pleșca

What motivates EU enlargement? Marius Ghincea and Laurențiu Pleșca argue that the Union’s approach has evolved through three overlapping logics — transformation, stabilisation, and demarcation. By unpacking how these priorities have shifted over time, they offer a more nuanced understanding of enlargement in a changing geopolitical context

Laurențiu Pleșca

PhD Candidate, Romanian Centre for Russian Studies, Doctoral School of Political Science, University of Bucharest

Laurențiu is also Program Coordinator at the German Marshall Fund's Black Sea Trust.

His main areas of expertise are Russia’s geopolitics in the Black Sea region, the Eastern Partnership, and EU foreign and security policy.

From transformation to demarcation: explaining the EU’s shifting motivations of the enlargement policy
Journal of European Public Policy

Russia, Geopolitics and Fisheries Management: a Tale of Two Seas
Arctic Review on Law and Politics

From Cold Relations to Active Involvement: Romanian Diplomatic Representation in Belarus (1992–2021)
Journal of Belarusian Studies

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