Antonia Colibasanu

Antonia Colibasanu is 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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What the Ukraine War Means for the Balkans

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is hosting the Western Balkans Investment Summit on Monday, with the leaders of Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia all in attendance. The EU enlargement commissioner, Oliver Varhelyi, will also address the summit. Important though the EBRD is – it’s the largest institutional investor in the […]

The Economic Retaliation Against Russia Takes Shape

The economic retaliation against Russia for invading Ukraine is starting to shape up. The United States announced on Feb. 24 that along with Canada, the United Kingdom and the...

Expected Economic Fallout of the Ukraine Invasion

Though Ukraine may not be an economic powerhouse in its own right, Russia’s invasion has the potential to be extremely economically disruptive nonetheless. The obvious and consequential effect concerns...

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The Ukraine crisis may have caught some off guard, but it didn’t come out of nowhere. The current conflict can be traced back to the Maidan revolt of 2014...

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Russia’s ongoing troop buildup near the Ukrainian border has led to more than a month of intense diplomacy as well as new U.S. military deployments in Eastern Europe. The...

New Political Strategies in a New Economic Order

At several debates I’ve attended since the beginning of the year – and in several responses I’ve received from readers – one question is inevitably asked: In these unprecedented...

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