Hadrian GORUN is associate
professor at “Constantin Brâncuși” University of Târgu-Jiu, holding a Ph. D in
history (Magna cum laude) from “Babeș-Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca. He had a
doctoral scholarship at Paris IV (Paris-Sorbonne) University. He successfully
defended his habilitation thesis entitled România și Marele Război: între
istoria și teoria relațiilor internaționale at “Babeș-Bolyai” University. His
primary research interests lie in the area of History and Theory of
International Relations, with a particular attention to World War I, focusing
on relations between Romania and Entente. Areas of interests also include
communism and post-communism.
Hadrian Gorun has published
chapters and contributions in prestigious international academic volumes,
including Peter Lang (Germany), Lexington Books (USA), and ISIS Press (Turkey,
in collaboration), as well as studies and articles in peer-reviewed journals,
such as Studia Slavica et Balcanica Petropolitana (Russia), PHILOBIBLON.
Transylvanian Journal of Interdisciplinary Research in Humanities (Romania),
European Scientific Journal (North Macedonia).
Among his publications are:
Books
- România și Marele Război.
Introducere la o istorie și teorie a relațiilor internaționale (Romania and the
Great War. Introduction to a History and Theory of International Relations)
(2021). Cluj Napoca: Argonaut & Mega;
- Relaţii
politico-diplomatice şi militare ale României cu Franţa în Primul Război
mondial (2009). Cluj-Napoca:Argonaut;
Chapters in books
- A Shifting Coalition or
Convenient Compromise. Romania and Russia in World War I, In Matthew Crosston,
Mihaela Teodor, Jordan Baev, Bogdan Teodor (eds.), Three Centuries of Russian
Influence in the Balkans (2026). New York, Lausanne, Berlin: Peter Lang;
- The Difficult Transition from Totalitarianism to Democracy in Romania after
December 1989: Political Myths, Manipulation and Violence, In Matei Gheboianu
and Daniela Popescu (eds.), Post-communism, Democracy, and Illiberalism in
Central and Eastern Europe after the fall of the Soviet Union (2023). Lanham,
Boulder, New York, London: Lexington Books;
- Tudor Vladimirescu’s Relations with the ’Patriotic’ Boyars: Politics and
Power in the Initial Phase of the Uprising (in collaboration with Gheorghe
Gorun), In Gabriel Leanca, Cosmin Mihuț, Cristian Ploscaru (eds.), An Epochal
Threshold? The 1821 Uprising in Romanian Principalities in Bicentennial
Perspective (2026). Istanbul: The Isis Press;
- Romania, Russia and
Bessarabia at the Beginning of 1918. French Documentary Testimonies, In Dumitru
Preda (ed.), The XXth Century. Between War and Peace. Romania in the Turmoil of
History/Secolul XX. Între război şi pace. România în tumultul istoriei/ Le
XXe siècle. Entre la guerre et la paix. La Roumanie dans la tourmente de
l’histoire (2022). Bucharest:
Cavallioti (Volume published on the occasion of the XXIIIrd International
Congress of Historical Sciences in Poznan/ Volume publié à l’occasion du XXIIIe
Congrès international des sciences historiques à Poznan)
Studies and articles
- Romania’s relations with France
and Russia and Bucharest’s fears concerning a Bulgarian offensive (fall of 1915
- August 1916). Some French documentary evidence (2015). In Studia Slavica et
Balcanica Petropolitana, Saint Petersburg State University, (1);
- The Paradox of Nicolae
Ceausescu’s Foreign Policy and Several Reasons for the Deterioration of the
International Image of his regime” (2018) (in collaboration). In European
Scientific Journal, XIV (29);
- Diplomacy and Propaganda. The
Attitude of the Romanian Authorities Towards the Screening of the Nadia Film at
the Cannes Festival (2025). In PHILOBIBLON. Transylvanian Journal of
Multidisciplinary Research in Humanities, XXX (1).
- Realism and Decisional Dilemmas
in Romania’s Foreign Policy during the Neutrality” (2018). In PHILOBIBLON.
Transylvanian Journal of Multidisciplinary Research in Humanities, XXIII, (2).
Hadrian Gorun is member of the
International Commission on the History of International relations. Since 2024
he is expert of the National Council for the Attestation of University Degrees,
Diplomas and Certificates (C.N.A.T.D.C.U.) He is also member of the scientific
committee of several journals indexed in international databases: Revista
Română de Studii Eurasiatice (Romanian Review of Eurasian Studies), Litua.
Studii și cercetări, Astra Sabesiensis, Astra Salvensis and Research and
Science Today.
