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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.