BISMUN Student Conference - Coordinators

International Relations and International Law Perspectives

Felix Zaharia is a Deputy-Director for International Law in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania and an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Bucharest, teaching International Public Law. He has graduated from the Law Faculty of the University of Bucharest.
He has worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 2006 and between 2007-2008 he was a Deputy of the Romanian Ambassador in Croatia. In 2011 he has been a Visiting Professor at the “Antonio Cicu” University of Bologna teaching International Public Law where he also conducted research projects in the same field.

Security and Military Perspectives

Radu Baltasiu, PhD is a University Professor and PhD Coordinator at the Faculty of Sociology and Social Work where he teaches The Social History of Romania, General Sociology, International Relations and Geopolitics, Geoeconomy and Societal Risks and Cyberspace. Since 2008 he also teaches Organisational Behavior and Corporate Business Security within the UNESCO Chair (MBA). In addition he has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Fribourg and Haute Ecole de Gestion (Fribourg, Switzerland), teaching Political Anthropology and Organisational Behavior.
He has obtained his PhD in Economic Sociology from the Faculty of Sociology and Social Work of the University of Bucharest. Since 2007 he is the Coordinator of MA Program “Security Studies and European Integration”. He has previously worked as an expert in the General Direction for International Relations and European Integration in the Ministry of Education and Research and as a Researcher at the Institute of Sociology of the Romanian Academy. Currently he is also a Director of the European Center for the Studies of Ethnical Issues.
Some of the most important works published by Mr. Radu Baltasiu are:

  • Elemente de Sociologie. Natiune si Capitalism, Craiova: Beladi, 2002 (Author)
  • Sociologie Economica si Teoria Elitelor, Bucuresti: Centru de Geopolitica si Antropologie Vizuala al Universitatii Bucuresti, 2003 (Author)
  • “Sociology in Romania Since 1989” in Sociology in Central and Eastern Europe: Transformation at the Dawn of a New Millenium, Keen and Mucha (eds.),
    Westport, Connecticut: Glenwood Publishing Group, 2003. (Co-Author)
  • Broadcasting and Citizens: Viewers Participation and Media Accountability in Europe – Romania, in European Association for Viewer Interest, “Broadcasting and Citizens”, 2004. (Co-Author).
  • Introducere in Sociologie, Craiova: Beladi, 2007 (Author)
  • Antropologia Globalizarii, Bucharest: Mica Valahie, 2009 (Author)

In addition he has published another 17 Books as a member of the Collective of Authors and 24 Studies or Articles, either as Author or Co-Author.

Ovidiana Bulumac is a 2nd Year PhD Candidate at the Faculty of Sociology and Social Work of the University of Bucharest where she teaches the seminars: Introduction in Sociology, Social History, Geoeconomics and International Affairs, History of Universal Sociology, International Relations and Anthropology of Globalization.
She has obtained her MA Degree in Sociology at the Faculty of Sociology and Social Work of the University of Bucharest. She has coordinated field researches on the Lipovan Community in Dobruja and on Symbolic Cartography in Oltenia. In addition she is taking part in an International academic research titled “Multiple Modernities and Collective Identities – Religion, Nation and Ethnicity in an Enlarging Europe”, financed by the Volkswagen Foundation under the umbrella of the University of Goettingen.
Some of the most important works published by Ms. Ovidiana Bulumac are:

  • Bulumac, Ovidiana. ’Orașul de sub munte’ – imagini, percepții și reprezentări. Un eșantion de sociologie urbană in Revista Universitara de Sociologie (Craiova), nr. 1, 2011.
  • Baltasiu, Radu, Ovidiana Bulumac, Lucian Dumitrescu. Fracturile evolutive ale României post-comuniste in Revista Universitară de Sociologie (Craiova), nr. 2, 2010.
  • Baltasiu, Radu (coord.), Ovidiana Bulumac, Simona Motoroiu, Gabriel Săpunaru. Metodologia neointerpretativă. Planurile analizei in teren – raport de cercetare pe comunitatea lipovenilor din Dobrogea in Romanian Journal of Sociology, nr. 1-2, 2010.
  • Baltasiu, Radu, Manuela Boatcă, Ovidiana Bulumac. Romania – layers of collective identity in the XIX and the XXth centuries – an outline, until the interwar period in Sociologie românească, Vol. VII, nr. 4, 2009, ed. Polirom, pp. 138-154.
  • Baltasiu, Radu, Lucian Dumitrescu, Ovidiana Bulumac. Abordarea neointerpretativă in Bădescu, Ilie, Ozana Cucu-Oancea, Gheorghe Șișeştean (coord.), Tratat de sociologie rurală,  2009, Ed. Mica Valahie, București, pp. 116-138.

Economy Perspectives

Robert Uzună has an 11 year career in international economic relations and diplomacy. In 2002 he joined the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and between 2005-2006, as deputy Director for Western Balkans and Regional Cooperation, he was in charge with the Romanian Chairmanship of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation Organisation. Starting with 2009, for almost two years, he was head of the Monitoring and Economic Policies Division, a pioneering initiative focused on early warning and global economic analyses.
Between 2006 and 2007 he was a fellow at Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service – Georgetown University, Washington DC, where he co-founded EnergiaGeorgtown.org. In 2008, he graduated with an MPhil from the University of Cambridge, where he was a member of the Executive Committee of Cambridge University Energy Network. Since 2010 he holds a PhD in Economics from the Romanian Academy.
Robert Uzuna is a lecturer at the Romanian Diplomatic Institute since 2004 and starting with this academic year an associate lecturer at the Academy of Economic Studies in Bucharest. He is a Board member of the Romanian Association of Foreign Policy, an affiliated expert of the Romanian Center for European Policies and also a member of the Romanian Association of Financial and Banking Analysts.
Some of the most important works published by Mr. Robert Uzuna are:

  • "Learn to live with the ‘Bear’ at your door. Romania and European energy security”, Romanian Center for European Policies, April 2010.
  • "The European Union adapts itself ’on the go’ to the Lisbon Treaty – Priorities of the Spanish Presidency and Romania’s interests”, co-author, Romanian Center for European Policies, January 2010.
  • "Europe’s East is in the North or in the South? – comments about the October 2009 European Council”, co-author, Romanian Center for European Policies, November 2009.
  • "Addressing the challenge of having a voice within the EU – Romania and the Swedish Presidency of the Union”, co-author, Romanian Center for European Policies, July 2009.
  • "The political impact of the economic crisis”, co-author, Economic Tribune no.2 & 3, Bucharest, January/February 2009.
  • "Romania and Ukraine in the Hague”, Center for European Policy Analysis, Washington D.C., September 2008.
  • "The Case for Increased American Investment in Romania”, Center for European Policy Analysis, Washington D.C., August 2007.
  • "The Black Sea Economic Cooperation Organisation. The challenges of reform on its 15th aniversary”, Romanian Journal of International Law no. 4/2007.
  • "A Pleasant Surprise: What Romania’s EU Accession Means for Europe and Transatlantic Relations”, Center for European Policy Analysis, Washington D.C., December 2006.
  • "Relations between Romania and Turkey”, Military Observer, Bucharest, June 2005.

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