Type of expert: Individual
First Name Stefan
Last Name Cibian
Sector of Activity Academia
Primary Field of Expertise Peace and security
Years of Expertise
  • >7
Employment Availability
  • Collaboration
  • Consultancy
Duration
  • Short-term
  • Medium term
  • Long-term
  • Remote
Geographic Experience / Focus
  • Romania only
  • Europe
  • Caucasus and Central Asia
Gender Male
Second and Third Field
  • Economic reform and private sector development
  • National minorities
  • inter-ethnic reconciliation
  • Equal rights and anti-discrimination
  • Civil society development
  • Humanitarian assistance and crisis response
Peace and security
  • International arbitration and conflict mediation
  • Depoliticisation, civilian oversight
Economic reform and private sector development
  • Entrepreneurship
Equal rights and anti-discrimination
  • Women and gender equality
  • Other minorities
  • Youth and social categories at risk
Civil society development
  • Civil society development
Humanitarian assistance and crisis response
  • Humanitarian relief, civil emergency, crisis response
  • Refugees and migration policies
Countries you have worked in Senegal, Rwanda, Tanzania, Kenya, Zambia, Burundi, DRC
Job Title Academy Fellow
Employer Chatham House - The Royal Institute of International Affairs
Sector of Activity Academia
Other Languages
  • English
  • German
  • French
English Professional Fluency
German Limited Knowledge
French Working Knowledge
Papers / Articles Published

"Post-Western IR: The impossible quest', paper presented at the ISA Annual Convention, Atlanta, United States, 2016.
'Exploring the Conceptual Limits of IR and Development Theory: Western Naïveté and Underdevelopment in Sub-Saharan Africa', paper presented at the ISA Annual Convention, New Orleans, 2015.
Analyzing the European Development Fund: An English School Account of How Presumed Statehood Undermines (Development in) Sub-Saharan Africa (opens in new window) PhD Thesis, Central European University, 2011.
Book review: Holden, Patrik, 2009, In Search of Structural Power: EU Aid Policy as a Global Political Instrument, pp. 1145-1146 in Journal of Common Market Studies, Vol. 47, No. 5, November 2009.
'An International Relations Theory Perspective on Development Aid and Its Role in Shaping the Post-1945 World Order', pp. 149-183, in EuroPolis, Journal of Political Analysis and Theory, No.3/2008.
Book review: Albert Rakipi, 2008, Weak States & Security: Rethinking the Balkan Post-Cold War Security Agenda, CEU Political Science Journal, Vol.3, No. 4, 2008."

Additional info about your experience and skills

https://www.chathamhouse.org/expert/stefan-cibian

Managerial Experience Yes
Degree Awarded Doctoral
Area of Study Political Science, with specialization in International Relations and European Studies
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