Dr Adrian Florea

  • Senior Lecturer (Political & International Studies)

telephone: 0141 330 6039
email: Adrian.Florea@glasgow.ac.uk

9 Lilybank Gardens, Room 403, G12 8RZ

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-7493-9307

Biography

I joined the University of Glasgow (School of Social and Political Sciences) in July 2015. Previously, I taught at the University of North Carolina Greensboro, Elon University (North Carolina), and Oberlin College (Ohio).

Education

  • Ph.D., Indiana University, Political Science, 2014
  • M.A., Iowa State University, Political Science and Applied Linguistics, 2007
  • B.A. University of Bucharest, American Studies, 2003

Personal website: http://aflorea.weebly.com/

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Research interests

Main research interests:

  • Civil war and ethnic conflict
  • De facto states
  • Rebel governance
  • Secessionism
  • Political violence 
  • State (un)making
  • International security
  • Research methods

Ongoing projects

I am currently engaged in three main projects. The first investigates the survival and disappearance of de facto states - polities, like Abkhazia, Northern Cyprus, or Western Sahara, which display many statelike characteristics except for international legal sovereignty. The second analyses the variation in the legitimacy of rebel groups. The third examines functional sovereignty in contested territories.

Research groups

Publications

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Number of items: 14.

2025

Florea, Adrian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7493-9307 and Huang, Reyko (2025) Functional sovereignty in contested territories. International Studies Quarterly, (Accepted for Publication)

Wedgwood Young, Enrique and Florea, Adrian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7493-9307 (2025) Rethinking rebel victory in civil war. Review of International Studies, (doi: 10.1017/S0260210524000858) (Early Online Publication)

Florea, Adrian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7493-9307 (2025) The governance of refugee camps through the lens of rebel governance scholarship, in Abou Assi, Diab and Nabatchi (eds.) Inside the Camp: Reimagining Refugee Governance for a Changing World (pp. 38-40). Working Paper. Institute for Migration Studies, School of Arts and Sciences, Lebanese American University.

2024

Florea, Adrian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7493-9307 and Malejacq, Romain (2024) The supply and demand of rebel governance. International Studies Review, 26(1), viae004. (doi: 10.1093/isr/viae004)

2021

Powell, Stephen R. and Florea, Adrian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7493-9307 (2021) Introducing the Armed Nonstate Actor Rivalry Dataset (ANARD). Civil Wars, 23(2), pp. 177-206. (doi: 10.1080/13698249.2021.1883334)

2020

Florea, Adrian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7493-9307 (2020) Rebel governance in de facto states. European Journal of International Relations, 26(4), pp. 1004-1031. (doi: 10.1177/1354066120919481)

2019

Lee, Michael J., Florea, Adrian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7493-9307 and Blarel, Nicolas (2019) Opening the black box of finance: north-south investment, political risk, and U.S. military intervention. Political Studies, 67(4), pp. 872-894. (doi: 10.1177/0032321718813570)

2018

Florea, Adrian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7493-9307 (2018) Authority contestation during and after civil war. Perspectives on Politics, 16(1), pp. 149-155. (doi: 10.1017/S1537592717004030)

Florea, Adrian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7493-9307 (2018) Spatial rivalry and coups against dictators. Security Studies, 27(1), pp. 1-26. (doi: 10.1080/09636412.2017.1360072)

2017

Florea, Adrian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7493-9307 (2017) De facto states: survival and disappearance (1945-2011). International Studies Quarterly, 61(2), pp. 337-351. (doi: 10.1093/isq/sqw049)

Florea, Adrian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7493-9307 (2017) Theories of civil war onset: promises and pitfalls. In: Thompson, William (ed.) The Oxford Encyclopedia of Empirical International Relations Theory [online]. Oxford University Press. (doi: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.325)

2014

Florea, Adrian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7493-9307 (2014) De facto states in international politics (1945–2011): a new data set. International Interactions, 40(5), pp. 788-811. (doi: 10.1080/03050629.2014.915543)

2012

Florea, Adrian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7493-9307 (2012) Where do we go from here? Conceptual, theoretical, and methodological gaps in the Large-N civil war research program. International Studies Review, 14(1), pp. 78-98. (doi: 10.1111/j.1468-2486.2012.01102.x)

2007

Florea, Adrian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7493-9307 (2007) Post cold war U.S. security assistance to Romania and the problem of the double security guarantee. In: Brooks, Michael G. (ed.) Security Assistance: U.S. and International Historical Perspectives. Combat Studies Institute Press: Kansas, pp. 545-565.

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Jump to: Articles | Book Sections | Research Reports or Papers
Number of items: 14.

Articles

Florea, Adrian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7493-9307 and Huang, Reyko (2025) Functional sovereignty in contested territories. International Studies Quarterly, (Accepted for Publication)

Wedgwood Young, Enrique and Florea, Adrian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7493-9307 (2025) Rethinking rebel victory in civil war. Review of International Studies, (doi: 10.1017/S0260210524000858) (Early Online Publication)

Florea, Adrian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7493-9307 and Malejacq, Romain (2024) The supply and demand of rebel governance. International Studies Review, 26(1), viae004. (doi: 10.1093/isr/viae004)

Powell, Stephen R. and Florea, Adrian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7493-9307 (2021) Introducing the Armed Nonstate Actor Rivalry Dataset (ANARD). Civil Wars, 23(2), pp. 177-206. (doi: 10.1080/13698249.2021.1883334)

Florea, Adrian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7493-9307 (2020) Rebel governance in de facto states. European Journal of International Relations, 26(4), pp. 1004-1031. (doi: 10.1177/1354066120919481)

Lee, Michael J., Florea, Adrian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7493-9307 and Blarel, Nicolas (2019) Opening the black box of finance: north-south investment, political risk, and U.S. military intervention. Political Studies, 67(4), pp. 872-894. (doi: 10.1177/0032321718813570)

Florea, Adrian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7493-9307 (2018) Authority contestation during and after civil war. Perspectives on Politics, 16(1), pp. 149-155. (doi: 10.1017/S1537592717004030)

Florea, Adrian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7493-9307 (2018) Spatial rivalry and coups against dictators. Security Studies, 27(1), pp. 1-26. (doi: 10.1080/09636412.2017.1360072)

Florea, Adrian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7493-9307 (2017) De facto states: survival and disappearance (1945-2011). International Studies Quarterly, 61(2), pp. 337-351. (doi: 10.1093/isq/sqw049)

Florea, Adrian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7493-9307 (2014) De facto states in international politics (1945–2011): a new data set. International Interactions, 40(5), pp. 788-811. (doi: 10.1080/03050629.2014.915543)

Florea, Adrian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7493-9307 (2012) Where do we go from here? Conceptual, theoretical, and methodological gaps in the Large-N civil war research program. International Studies Review, 14(1), pp. 78-98. (doi: 10.1111/j.1468-2486.2012.01102.x)

Book Sections

Florea, Adrian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7493-9307 (2017) Theories of civil war onset: promises and pitfalls. In: Thompson, William (ed.) The Oxford Encyclopedia of Empirical International Relations Theory [online]. Oxford University Press. (doi: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.325)

Florea, Adrian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7493-9307 (2007) Post cold war U.S. security assistance to Romania and the problem of the double security guarantee. In: Brooks, Michael G. (ed.) Security Assistance: U.S. and International Historical Perspectives. Combat Studies Institute Press: Kansas, pp. 545-565.

Research Reports or Papers

Florea, Adrian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7493-9307 (2025) The governance of refugee camps through the lens of rebel governance scholarship, in Abou Assi, Diab and Nabatchi (eds.) Inside the Camp: Reimagining Refugee Governance for a Changing World (pp. 38-40). Working Paper. Institute for Migration Studies, School of Arts and Sciences, Lebanese American University.

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Grants

Recent grants

  • Research Grant, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow
  • Dynamics of Nonstate Governance in Kosovo and Northern Cyprus: British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant (January 2018-March 2019)
  • De Facto States in International Politics (2012-2015): The Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland, Research Incentive Grant (April 2017-April 2018) 

Supervision

I am interested in supervising students in the following areas:

  • Civil war and ethnic conflict
  • Secessionism
  • De facto states
  • Rebel governance 
  • Rebel diplomacy
  • Violence and political contention
  • Behaviour of armed nonstate actors

Current Ph.D. supervision (main supervisor)

  • Explaining Self-Determination Groups' Violent and Nonviolent Strategies of Resistance, Mark McGeoghegan, ESRC/SGSSS Ph.D. Fellowship
  • Violence against Civilians during Episodes of Ethnic Cleansing, Matthew Tentler, University of Glasgow, College of Social Sciences Ph.D. Fellowship
  • McGeoghegan, Mark
    The Contentious Politics of Self-Determination: explaining the tactics of self-determination groups

Past Ph.D. supervision (main supervisor)

  • Investigating the Dynamics of Armed Nonstate Actor Rivalry in the Middle East & North Africa (MENA), 1993-2018, Stephen R. Powell (2022), University of Glasgow, Q-Step Ph.D. Fellowship
  • Dimensions of Demobilisation: Peacebuilding Policy and Post-Civil War Security, Daniel O. Shaw (2023), ESRC/SGSSS Ph.D. Fellowship
  • Stability and Instability after Rebel Victory in Civil War, Enrique W. Young (2023), ESRC/SGSSS Ph.D. Fellowship

Teaching

Research datasets

Jump to: 2015
Number of items: 1.

2015

Florea, A. (2015) De Facto States in International Politics (1945-2011): A New Dataset. [Data Collection]

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