Ion Marandici, Ph.D. (Rutgers U. 2017) studies the political economy of reforms across Eastern Europe and East Asia, Russian foreign policy, conflict processes across Eurasia and nationalism. His publications include articles in Nationalities Papers, Problems of Post-Communism, Eurasian Geography and Economics, Demokratizatsiya, Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society, Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, Southeast European and Black Sea Studies as well as chapters in collaborative volumes. Ion was the recipient of a doctoral fellowship from the Open Society Institute in New York. At Rutgers, he has been regularly teaching courses in comparative politics, international relations, research methods, and legal philosophy. In 2016, Ion was a visiting researcher at the Graduate Institute of National Development (National Taiwan University in Taipei). In 2022, he worked as a consultant on open data reforms in Central Asia as well as on anti-corruption policies in Eastern Europe for the World Bank. Ion knows several foreign languages.
