Academic title: Senior University Lecturer (tenured position)

CV | Sergiu DELCEAis a Lecturer at the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Bucharest, with a PhD in political economy (Central European University, 2021). He has previously taught courses in international political economy at Mathias Corvinus Collegium (Budapest, 2017-2018) and Corvinus University (Budapest, 2019). By bringing together the conceptual toolkits of intellectual history, political science and international politicail economy, his research contributes to recent constructivist studies on the global diffusion of social policy models.

Areas of interest: historical development of welfare states in late industrializing states, comparative social policy, the global diffusion of social policy models, International Organizations and global social policy, international political economy

Courses: SSL, SPR, SPE, RISE, MCP

Recent publications:

• Delcea, S. (2023) „O cale națională către modernintatea transnațională? Construirea națiunii și transferurile internaționale în dezvoltarea statului bunăstării în România interbelică” în România interbelică. Modernizare politico-instituțională și discurs național, editata de S. Radu si O. Jens-Schmitt, Polirom, Iasi, pp.301-331, ISBN 978-973-46-9741-0, https://polirom.ro/-/8281-rom%C3%A2nia-interbelic%C4%83.html

• Delcea, Sergiu, (2023) „Employers and the Development of the interwar Romanian Welfare State”, New Europe College Yearbook, No: 1, 2022-2023: 105 – 128, DOI: 10.58367/NECY.2024.1.4.105-128, ISSN 1584-0298

• A nation of bureaucrats or a nation of workers? Welfare benefits as nation-building modernization tools in interwar Romania; publicat în Journal of European Social Policy, Volume 32, Issue 1, DOI: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/09589287211035700

• Pro-Urban Welfare in an Agricultural Country? Economic Nationalism and Welfare Regime Problems of Fit: Lessons from interwar Romania, publicat în Fetzer & Berger (eds.), Nationalism and the Economy: Explorations into a neglected field, CEU Press: Budapest, New York, 2019, pp. 139-163
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Topics for BA/MA coordination:  (1) international political economy, (2) history, development and comparison of social security systems, comparative public policy systems, (3) financial crises, global economic policies, economic nationalism, (4) international organizations in the area of international political economy

Office hours: Fridays 12:00 – 14:30, by online appointment only (flexible program Zoom/Meet

E-mail: sergiu.delcea@fsp.unibuc.ro