Dr. Nicu Popescu leads the Wider Europe program at ECFR. Between May-December 2019, he served Minister of Foreign Affairs and of Moldova. He is author of the EU Foreign Policy and Post-Soviet Conflicts: Stealth Intervention’ (Routledge 2010) and co-editor of Democratization in EU Foreign Policy (2015). Dr. Dimitar Bechev is Research Fellow at UNC Chapel Hill as well as Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council in Washington, D.C. Amongst his publications are Rival Power: Russia in Southeast Europe (Yale, 2017) and Mediterranean Frontiers (IB Tauris, 2010, co-edited with Kalypso Nicolaidis). Dr. Stanislav Secrieru is senior analyst at the EU Institute for Security Studies where he covers Russian foreign and security policy. Prior to that, he held position with the Polish Institute of International Affairs and the Open Society European Policy Institute.
This short book addresses Russia's engagement with the entire region from Maghreb to Iran and Turkey ... The editors bring all these strings together in an excellent final essay. * The Arab Banker *