Institute

About the Author
Raluca Csernatoni holds a Doctorate of Philosophy in Political Science
with the Doctoral School of Political Science, Public Policy and
International Relations, The Department of International Relations and
European Studies, Central European University (CEU). She obtained
her PhD with the distinction Cum Laude and her doctoral thesis
focused on the security sector reforms in Central and Eastern Europe
post-Cold War, under the joint tutorship of NATO and the EU’s
Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP). She completed a
research stage at the Royal Higher Institute for Defence (RHID) and its
Centre for Security and Defence Studies in Brussels, Belgium. Here,
she wrote a policy Focus Paper on EU-funded projects for drone
development, i.e. ‘Defending Europe: Dual-use Technologies and Drone Development in the
EU.’ Raluca worked as a research officer with the International Security Information Service,
Europe in Brussels (Belgium). She was a research fellowship recipient from the Study
Programme on European Security (SPES) and conducted research with the Institut für
Europäische Politik (IEP) in Berlin. She was a lecturer on the CSDP in Action: CSDP
Missions and Operations and the Involvement of the EU Member States, as part of the third
training module of the European Security and Defence College’s (ESDC) Advanced Course
for Political Advisors in EU Missions and Operations, Vienna.
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