Dr. Elisabeta Cristina Dinu

Researcher

Dr. Elisabeta Dinu is a Researcher in the Research Group Radicalization, Terrorism, and Extremism Prevention (RTEP) and in the Research Depart­ment Transnational Politics at PRIF. Her research focuses on terrorist organizations and networks, European defense and security, as well as policy learning and innovation.

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| since 2025
Researcher at PRIF

| 2024–2025
CIVICA Postdoctoral Fellow, Hertie School – Centre for International Security

| 2024
Adjunct Lecturer, Bard College Berlin

| 2024
Teaching Fellow, Bard College NYC

| 2024
Visiting Scholar, Saltzman Institute for War and Peace Studies, Columbia University

| 2018–2024
Doctoral Researcher in Political Science – Major in Public Policy, Central European University

| 2022
Visiting Researcher, University of St. Andrews, School of International Relations

| 2017–2018
MA in Public Policy, Department of Public Policy, Central European University

| 2016–2017
Leadership Programs Officer/Manager, Aspen Institute Romania

| 2014–2016
MA in Comparative Politics, Faculty of Political Science, University of Bucharest

| 2011–2014
BA in Political Science, Faculty of Political Science, University of Bucharest

Publications

  • Consociationalism in Lebanon after the Cedar Revolution: External Threats, Political Instability, and Macrosecuritizations
    | 2022
    Consociationalism in Lebanon after the Cedar Revolution: External Threats, Political Instability, and Macrosecuritizations.
  • Patterns of cleavage development in the late ottoman empire and khedival and British Egypt: Intrasocietal and extrasocietal determinants of opposition radicalization
    | 2018
    Patterns of cleavage development in the late ottoman empire and khedival and British Egypt: Intrasocietal and extrasocietal determinants of opposition radicalization.
  • The society of the muslim brothers - An Islamist political party? Participation in a confined political system
    | 2015
    The society of the muslim brothers - An Islamist political party? Participation in a confined political system.