Articles by Marius Ghincea

July 15, 2025

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

Marius Ghincea

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

Power competition will bring new opportunities – and crises – for small powers

Marius Ghincea

As we enter a new period of great power competition, small powers across the world are presented with novel opportunities. However, small states also face crises that will test their resilience. Marius Ghincea argues that only those states which can build resilience and cross-group cohesion will reap the spoils of emerging power competition

Marius Ghincea

PhD Researcher, European University Institute

Marius is also a Research Fellow at the Hertie School of Government.

His research interests focus on the domestic politics of foreign policy, identity and foreign policy, and the contestation of the international order.

Currently, he is researching the sources and mechanisms of cross-party foreign policy consensus.

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He tweets @MariusGhincea

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