Antonia Colibasanu

Antonia Colibasanu is the Chief GeoEconomist and Senior Geopolitical Analyst at Geopolitical Futures and Senior Fellow for Eurasia Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. She has published several works on geopolitics and geoeconomics, including "Geopolitics, Geoeconomics and Borderlands: A Study of a Changing Eurasia and Its Implications for Europe" and "Contemporary Geopolitics and Geoeconomics". She is also associate professor of geopolitics and geoeconomics on international relations at the Romanian National University of Political Studies and Public Administration. She is a senior expert associate with the Romanian New Strategy Center think tank and a member of the Scientific Council of Real Elcano Institute. Prior to Geopolitical Futures, Dr. Colibasanu spent more than 10 years with Stratfor in various positions, including as partner for Europe and vice president for international marketing. Prior to joining Stratfor in 2006, Dr. Colibasanu held a variety of roles with the World Trade Center Association in Bucharest. Dr. Colibasanu holds a master’s degree in International Project Management, and she is an alumna of the International Institute on Politics and Economics at Georgetown University. Her doctorate is in International Business and Economics from Bucharest’s Academy of Economic Studies, and her thesis focused on country-level risk analysis and investment decision-making processes by transnational companies.

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NATO’s Future as Seen From Sweden

Last week, I was in Gothenburg, Sweden, the city where the word “geopolitics” (“geopolitik” in Swedish) was probably first uttered publicly. It was spoken by Rudolf Kjellen, who coined the term, during a series of popular science lectures in April 1899 at what is today the University of Gothenburg. (“Geopolitik” first appeared in print in […]

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Germany and Poland on June 17 signed a defense agreement reflecting the changing European security environment in the wake of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The pact signals Berlin’s...

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