Teodor Moga

Teodor is associate professor in the IR, EU foreign & security affairs, eastern neigh., Romania's fp, @cesuaic @UAICiasi. Coordinator @RoSecProject @eurintconf

[Teodor Moga @teodormoga]

Happy to share our latest article published in @EurAsiaStudies on Romania’s perceived power & influence in the eastern neighbourhood. @bogdan_ibanescu https://t.co/KZ9ZCk9v5c

[Teodor Moga @teodormoga]

@DrRadchenko @camille_grand @nfergus Wait. I'm afraid it's an inconsistency here since in Diplomacy (1994) HK argues that for the US true European autonomy is either unnecessary, because European interests are best secured through the Atlantic Alliance, or counterproductive. So, which one is it ultimately?

[Teodor Moga @teodormoga]

@GerardAraud Whither the EU, under these new circumstances, Ambassador?

[Teodor Moga @teodormoga]

@GerardAraud Agree. But this should also say something about France's ability to communicate this well/convincingly. Was it something about the message or in fact something about the messenger that didn't click? What can you say after a thorough and honest decades-long introspection?

[Teodor Moga @teodormoga]

This insight challenges conventional understandings of EU conditionality effectiveness and refines the concept of hedging by specifying the conditions under which hedging transforms from pragmatic balancing into a tool for authoritarian entrenchment. 4/end

[Teodor Moga @teodormoga]

Very happy @EGozalishvili and I managed to pull off this publication in @CA_Survey, where we come up with a new term, '𝗽𝘀𝗲𝘂𝗱𝗼-𝗵𝗲𝗱𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴', to explain #Georgia's recent foreign policy actions⤵️
https://t.co/z9AhkdfxNH 1/

[Teodor Moga @teodormoga]

We use 𝗽𝘀𝗲𝘂𝗱𝗼-𝗵𝗲𝗱𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 to argue that when autocratic consolidation coincides with accelerated integration prospects, hedging operates under an inverted incentive structure:increased external accommodation paradoxically enables greater deviation from conditionality 3/

[Daniel DePetris @DanDePetris]

Much like he did in the spring and summer, Zelensky will lean heavily on the Europeans—Starmer, Macron and Meloni especially—to convince Trump step back from the course he’s now on. The strategy worked earlier in the year. Will it work again? (1/5) 🧵

[Franz-Stefan Gady @HoansSolo]

Ukraine faces a classic Catch-22 of war termination. It can reject the 28-point plan because it demands giving up the Donbas without a fight. Yet by continuing to fight, a potentially worsening military position by 2026 could allow Russia to seize more of the Donbas—or all of it—removing a key obstacle to a ceasefire and leaving Ukraine with the same end result on worse terms. And still, Kyiv cannot simply abandon the Donbas without a fight.

[Teodor Moga @teodormoga]

https://t.co/pmD5ONBFZb @MAERomania @oana_toiu @MApNRomania @IonutMosteanu 2/.

[Teodor Moga @teodormoga]

Am publicat un op-ed pentru @libertatea despre cât de vizibilă și relevantă este România la Washington, pe baza unor interviuri cu experți americani și NATO. Thank you @IanBrzezinski @ScottPCullinane @AmbDanFried @JohnEdHerbst @DaliborRohac for your substantive contribution. 1/

[Teodor Moga @teodormoga]

@DaliborRohac @AEI Thank you @DaliborRohac. It was a great and substantive conversation.

[Dalibor Roháč 🇺🇦 @DaliborRohac]

Happy to have contributed a couple of quotes to @teodormoga's dispatch from Washington. https://t.co/0Dr3gYef0v

[Teodor Moga @teodormoga]

@elonmusk Thanks for doing your part, Elon, to keep the fertility rate afloat 😁

[Teodor Moga @teodormoga]

@ivanastradner @TVPWorld_com Well said, Ivana!

[Teodor Moga @teodormoga]

@generalkellogg Put pressure on Russia, general. Remind Mr President that waving his photo together with Putin in front of cameras is a bit distasteful. Not to mention the promised signature.

[Gérard Araud @GerardAraud]

Les Européens n’ont qu’à s’en prendre à eux-mêmes de la perspective d’une rencontre entre Trump et Poutine pour mettre un terme à la guerre en Ukraine. Ils ont été incapables soit de soutenir fermement ce pays soit de présenter une position de négociation réaliste.

[Teodor Moga @teodormoga]

@BrookingsFP #NATO How do you see the future of the MK Black Sea air base, near Constanta, Romania, which is being under development (the planned DL is 2032) considering the current budget constrains in the USA and plans of the current US administration to reduce military personnel in Europe?

[Teodor Moga @teodormoga]

@BrookingsFP #NATO Re European security: how does the current US administration perceive the importance of NATO's eastern flank? And, in particular, how do the current Trump administration see the role of Romania at NATO’s eastern flank?

[Teodor Moga @teodormoga]

@PM_ViktorOrban What is this outburst of negativity? Too many "don'ts"😊