Latest policy publications:  

• Push back, contain, and engage: How the EU should approach relations with Russia, ECFR Policy Brief, co-authored with Carl Bildt, Gustav Gressel and Kadri Liik, March 2021.  

• The best defence: Why the EU should forge security compacts with its eastern neighbours, ECFR Policy Brief, co-authored with Gustav Gressel, October 2021

Policy Reports: 

• Hacks, Leaks and Disruptions: Russian Cyber Strategies, co-editor, EUISS Paris, 2018.

• Russia’s Return to the  Middle East: Building Sandcastles? co-editor, EUISS Paris, 2018. 

• Third Powers in Europe’s East, co-editor, EUISS, Paris, 2018.

• Russian and Chinese defence industries: what is at stake for Europe?, co-editor, EUISS, Paris, 2018. 

• After the EU Global Strategy – Building Resilience, co-editor, EUISS report, Paris, 2017. 

• China and Russia: an Eastern Partnership in the making?; co-author, EUISS Chaillot Paper 140, Paris, December 2016. 

• Strategic Communications: East and South, co-author, EUISS Report, July 2016. 

• Russian Futures: Horizon 2025, editor, EUISS Report, April 2016. 

• The EU neighbours in  1995-2015: shades of grey, co-authored with Florence Gaub, EUISS Chaillot Paper, December 2015. 

• Eurasian Union: the real, the imaginary and the likely, Chaillot Paper 132, September 2014, EUISS. 

• Dealing with a post-BRIC Russia, ECFR Policy report, November 2011, co-authored with Ben Judah and Jana Kobzova. 

• The Limits of Enlargement-lite: European and Russian Power in the Troubled Neighbourhood’, ECFR Policy Report, June 2009. 

• ‘A Power Audit of EU-Russia Relations’, co-authored with Mark Leonard, Policy Paper 1, European Council on Foreign Relations, November 2007.

Policy briefs, articles and book chapters 

• A new transatlantic bargain: An action plan for transformation, not restoration, ECFR Policy Memo, co-authored, November 2021. 

• Defender of the faith? How Ukraine’s Orthodox split threatens Russia, ECFR Policy Brief, co-authored with Momchil Metodiev and Kadri Liik, May 2019. 

• ‘Les succès et les échecs du Partenariat oriental : dépasser les idées reçues’,      (in French), in Champs de Mars: Revue d'études sur la guerre et la paix, Paris, 2017.

• Sanctions and Russia: lessons from the Cold War, EUISS Alert, May 2015. 

• Hybrid tactics: neither new not only Russian, EUISS Alert, January      2015. 
• Do sanctions against Russia      work? EUISS Brief 35,      December 2014, co-authored with Iana Dreyer. 
• Ukraine’s impact on Russia, EUISS Alert, July 2014. 
• Ukraine: Four Crises, One      Country, Policy Brief, EU      Institute for Security Studies, Paris, May 2014. 
• The Eurasian Customs Union: the economics      and the politics, co-authored      with Iana Dreyer, Policy Brief, EU Institute for Security Studies, Paris,      March 2014. 
• EU-Russia: overcoming      stagnation, Policy Brief,      EU Institute for Security Studies, Paris, January 2014. 
• The Moscow riots, Russian      nationalism and the Eurasian Union, Policy Brief, EU Institute for Security Studies, Paris, November      2013. 
• Transnistria: a bottom-up      solution, ECFR Policy      Brief, London, co-authored with Leonid Litra, September 2012. 
• ‘The strange alliance of democrats and nationalists’, Journal of Democracy 23:3, July      2012, pp. 46-54. 
• ‘Moldova’s Fragile Pluralism’, Russian      Politics and Law 50:4, July-August 2012. 
• ‘Eastern Partnership and the South Caucasus: A View from Europe’,      in Eastern Partnership for the South      Caucasus, Levan Mikheladze Foundation, Tbilisi 2011. 
• ‘How to Influence Neighbours’, in Internationale Politik (Global Edition), September/October      2011, Volume 12 (co-authored). 
• ‘Fragile Pluralism’, in Pro      et Contra, Vol 15, Issue 3-4, 2011, Carnegie Moscow Centre. 
• ‘Russia and EU’s Competitive Neighbourhood’, co-authored with Jana      Kobzova and Andrew Wilson in Alexander Astrov (ed), Great Power (Mis)Management: The Russian-Georgian War and its      Implications for Global Political Order, Ashgate 2011, pp.79-102. 
• A Chance to Reform: How the      EU can support Democratic Evolution in Morocco, ECFR Policy Brief, co-authored with Susi      Dennison and Jose-Ignacio Torreblanca, May 2011. 
• Turning Presence into Power:      Lessons from the Eastern Neighbourhood, ECFR Policy Brief, May 2011. 
• The EU and Civil Society in the Georgian-Abkhaz Conflict, in      Nathalie Tocci (ed.)  The European Union, Civil Society and      Conflict, Routledge 2011. 
• After The Revolution: Europe and the Transition in Tunisia, ECFR       Policy Brief, co-authored with Susi Dennison, Anthony Dworkin and  Nick      Witney, March 2011. 
• ‘EU and the Eastern Neighbourhood: Reluctant Involvement in      Conflict Resolution’, European      Foreign Affairs Review 14:4, pp. 457-477, 2009. 
• Re-setting the Eastern Partnership      in Moldova, Policy Brief      199, Centre for European Policy Studies, November 2009, Brussels. 
• ‘European and Russian Neighbourhood Policies Compared’, cu-authored      with Andrew Wilson in Journal of      Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, 9:3, 2009, pp. 317 – 331. 
• ‘Moldova’s fragile pluralism’, in Democracy’s Plight in the European Neighbourhood: Struggling      transitions and proliferating dynasties, edited by Michael Emerson and      Richard Youngs, CEPS, Brussels, October 2009, co-authored with Andrew      Wilson. 
• ‘The Sovereign Neighbourhood: Weak Statehood Strategies in Eastern      Europe’, The International      Spectator: Italian Journal of International Affairs, 44:1, March 2009,      co-authored with Andrew Wilson.
• ‘The Future of EU-Russia Relations: A Way Forward in Solidarity  and      the Rule of Law’, European Parliament Briefing Paper, Policy  Department      External Policies, February 2009, co-authored with  Andrew Wilson and      Pierre Noel.
• ‘Can the EU win the peace in Georgia?’, ECRF Policy Brief, 24      August 2008, Nicu Popescu, Mark Leonard and Andrew Wilson.
• ‘Internationalizing the Georgia-Abkhazia Conflict Resolution       Process: Why a Greater European Role is Needed’, GMF Policy Brief;  Ron      Asmus, Svante E. Cornell, Antje Herrberg, and Nicu Popescu,  June 2008.
• ‘Human Rights and Frozen Conflicts in the Eastern       Neighbourhood’, Briefing Paper,      Directorate General External  Policies of the Union, European Parliament,      November 2007.
• ‘Moldova’, in: Nations in      Transit 2007, Co-authored with George Dura, Freedom House, New York,      2007. 
• ‘European Neighbourhood      Policy Two Years on: Time indeed for an ‘ENP Plus’, co-authored with      Michael Emerson and Gergana Noutcheva, CEPS Policy Brief 126, 21 March      2007, Brussels.
• ‘Europe’s Unrecognised      Neighbours: The EU in Abkhazia and South Ossetia’, CEPS Working      Document 260, 15 March 2007, Brussels.
• ‘Russia's Soft Power      Ambitions’, CEPS Policy Brief 115, 27 October 2006, Brussels.
• ‘Abkhazia i Yuzhnaya Ossetia: nezavisimost ili vyzhivanie?’      (Abkhazia and South Ossetia : independence or survival?), in Pro et Contra Vol. 10, Nr. 5-6      (34), 2006, Carnegie Moscow Center, pp. 40-52 (in Russian).
• ‘Outsourcing de facto statehood: Russia and the secessionist       entities in Moldova and Georgia’, CEPS Policy Brief 109, 20 July  2006. 
• ‘Democracy in Secessionism:      Transnistria and Abkhazia's Domestic Politics’, Report for the Venice      Commission of the Council of Europe, CDL-JU (2006) 011, 12 September 2006,      Strasbourg, 2006. 
• ‘Moldova’, in: Nations in      Transit 2006, Co-authored with George Dura, Freedom House, New York,      Rowman & Littlefield, 2006. 
• The EU in South Caucasus:      Learning Lessons from Moldova and Ukraine, Policy Paper, Georgian Foundation for      Strategic and International Studies, Tbilisi, Georgia, April 2006. 
• ‘Settling Conflicts in the      Neighbourhood: the EU and Moldova’, Occasional Paper 60, EU Institute      for Security Studies, Paris, October 2005, www.iss-eu.org .
• ‘Europeanisation and Conflict Resolution: A View from Moldova’, in Europeanisation and Conflict Resolution      (Russian edition), Michael Emerson and Bruno Coppieters (eds), 2005,      Ves Mir, Moscow. Also Avalaible in English in Journal of Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe, Special      Focus 2004, http://www.ecmi.de/jemie . 
• ‘Moldova’, in: Nations in      Transit 2005, Co-authored with George Dura, Freedom House, New York,      Rowman&Littlefield, 2005. 
• ‘Towards a Sustainable Solution of the      Transnistria Problem: A Role for the European Union’;  Working Paper      141, Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of  Armed Forces (DCAF),      International Institute for Strategic Studies  (IISS, London); Geneva, July      2004. 
• European Union’s Foreign Policy Change Towards      Moldova, NATO Studies Center, Strategic Issues      Review No.4, Bucharest, Politeia-SNSPA, September 2003. 
• “Scenarios of NATO enlargement”, in Arcadie Barbarosie and Viorel Cibotaru (eds): National Security and Defence of Moldova, Institute for Public Policy, Prut International, Chisinau, 2001.