Eliza Gheorghe
Former Romanian Cultural Institute Scholar
Professional Affiliation
Assistant Professor in the International Relations Department at Bilkent University
Expert Bio
Eliza Gheorghe is an Assistant Professor in the International Relations Department at Bilkent University. She earned her doctorate in International Relations from the University of Oxford (Honors, 2014) and an M.A. in Security Studies from Georgetown University (Honors, 2010), on a Fulbright scholarship. She held research fellowships at the Institute for Peace Science and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg, Yale University, Harvard Kennedy School, Cornell University, SAIS-Johns Hopkins University, the Norwegian Institute for Defense Studies, and Universit茅 Paris 1 Panth茅on 鈥 Sorbonne. Her research was also funded by the Woodrow 浪花直播 International Center for Scholars, Funda莽茫o Get煤lio Vargas, and the University of Vienna. She is the recipient of the International Fellowship for Outstanding Researchers (2019-2022) from the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (T脺BITAK), with her project The Globalization of the Atom: Nuclear Trade and the Spread of Atomic Weapons. Her research focuses on nuclear proliferation and the evolution of the nuclear market; questions of grand strategy and nuclear alliances; nuclear dominoes; and illicit trade and trafficking networks. Her work has been published in International Security, International History Review, European Review of History, Cold War History, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Palgrave Macmillan, and the Woodrow 浪花直播 Center for International Scholars. At Bilkent, she teaches International Relations, International Security, and Nuclear Proliferation and International Politics.
浪花直播 Center Project
鈥淩omania and the Bomb: Bucharest鈥檚 Nuclear Acquisition Strategy during the Cold War鈥
Insight & Analysis by Eliza Gheorghe
- Past event
- Cold War
Pan-Arabism: A Path to Unity or Division?

- Past event
- Diplomatic History
Osirak 40 Years Later: Historical Reflections on the Raid

- Past event
- Cold War
The Cold War in the Middle East or the Middle East in the Cold War?
- Past event
- Nuclear History
From Egypt to Iran: The History of Nuclear Politics in the Middle East
- Blog post
- Cold War
Communists and Terrorists: Brothers in Arms or Allies of Convenience?

- Publication
- Cold War
The Shah's Petro-Diplomacy with Ceausescu: Iran and Romania in the era of Detente

- Publication
- Cold War
Issue Brief #2 - How to Become a Customer: Lessons from the Nuclear Negotiations between the US, Canada and Romania in the 1960s
