Academic title: Professor

CV | Dragoș Petrescu is Professor of Comparative Politics at the Faculty of Political Science, University of Bucharest. He served as Chairman of the Board of the National Council for the Study of the Securitate Archives (CNSAS), 2010–2018 and Director of the Romanian Institute of Recent History (IRIR), 2003–2006. He is the author of Entangled Revolutions: The Breakdown of the Communist Regimes in East-Central Europe (Bucharest: Editura Enciclopedică, 2014) and Explaining the Romanian Revolution of 1989: Culture, Structure, and Contingency (Bucharest: Editura Enciclopedică, 2010), and co-editor of Nation-Building and Contested Identities: Romanian & Hungarian Case Studies (Budapest and Bucharest: Regio Books & Polirom, 2001).

Research interests: the comparative analysis of the communist regimes in East-Central Europe, transitions to democracy, and digital transformations and technopolitics in the region.

Courses : in Comparative Politics and Security Studies at the English and Romanian  Sections (SPE, IRES, SPR and SSL) at undergraduate level, and in Comparative Politics at Master’s level – MCP.

Recent publications “Revisiting the Revolution of 1989: The End of the Communist Rule in Romania,” in Jakub Tyszkiewicz, ed., Human Rights and Political Dissent in Central Europe: Between the Helsinki Accords and the Fall of the Berlin Wall (London: Routledge, 2021), pp. 172-186; “One Bloody Regime Change and Three Political Paradoxes: The Romanian Revolution of 1989 and Its Legacy,” Cuadernos de Historia Contemporánea (Madrid), Vol. 42 (2020), pp. 117-140; “Law in Action in Romania, 2008-2018: Context, Agency and Innovation in the Process of Transitional Justice,” Journal of Romanian Studies, Vol. 2, No. 2 (2020), pp. 195-217; “Blutige Revolution, paradoxe Folgen: Der Umsturz in Rumänien von 1989 und sein Erbe,” Osteuropa (Berlin), No. 6-8 (2019), pp. 93-104.

 Topics for BA/MA coordination:  (1) comparative political analysis, (2) the Cold War and the New Cold War, (3) political cultures in Europe, (4) technopolitics and human security

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