Bogdan G Popescu
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Bogdan G Popescu
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Assistant Professor of Political Science @JohnCabotRome: state development, political economy | Postdoc @Princeton | Lecturer @Politics_Oxford | PhD @UChicago

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Chapter two of my book journey takes me to Vancouver—excited to present at APSA 2025
September 13, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Grateful for two new reviews on my book - Imperial Borderlands.

- Perspectives on Politics by Christina Zuber (Konstanz): www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

- EH.net by Stefan Nikolic (Loughborough: eh.net/book_reviews...

Thank you both for the thoughtful engagement!
Imperial Borderlands: Institutions and Legacies of the Habsburg Military Frontier. By Bogdan G. Popescu. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. 317p. | Perspectives on Politics | Cambridge Core
Imperial Borderlands: Institutions and Legacies of the Habsburg Military Frontier. By Bogdan G. Popescu. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. 317p.
www.cambridge.org
August 28, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Big news: Imperial Borderlands is now out in paperback @universitypress.cambridge.org James Robinson (2024 Econ Nobel) calls it "pathbreaking." Empire + institutions + data science—same frontier, softer cover. www.amazon.com/Imperial-Bor...
August 20, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Casually holding one of the documents that made Europe: the 1718 Treaty of Passarowitz. Borders redrawn, empires rebalanced, futures rewritten—on parchment. Archival research for my second book on imperial legacies, state formation, and the making of modern Europe.
July 22, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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#FirstView from @poppublicsphere.bsky.social -

@bgpopescu.bsky.social's review of 'Bureaucracies at War. The Institutional Origins of Miscalculation' by Tyler Jost - cup.org/3Uejy5f

Buy the book from @universitypress.cambridge.org here - cup.org/4lPLRTs
July 16, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Thrilled to present my second book at the Inequality and Democracy in Central Eastern Europe workshop @UniKonstanz discussing authoritarian legacies and institutions, and development. Thank you @lotemhalevy.bsky.social and Laura Jakli for inviting
July 3, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Thanks to @ricarthuguet.bsky.social for the thoughtful review of my book in @govjournal.bsky.social ! Grateful for the engagement with my work! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Imperial Borderlands. By Bogdan G. Popescu, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 332 pp. $110.00 (cloth). ISBN: 9781009365215
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onlinelibrary.wiley.com
March 17, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Excited to be presenting parts of my second book at the Association for the Study of Religion, Economics, and Culture in Washington DC
March 7, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Brilliance isn't just in the mind—it's also in the wardrobe. Excited to celebrate my advisor, James Robinson, on his birthday and his Nobel Prize win in Chicago this weekend!
March 3, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Had a fantastic book workshop with some of the sharpest minds in the field. Grateful for their insights—now back to revising!@timurkuran.bsky.social @izading.bsky.social @ahmetkuru.bsky.social @annagbusse.bsky.social @aspaglayan.bsky.social
February 17, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Excited to present my second book - Islam, Sultans, and the Printing Press at the Research Seminar Series tomorrow at 12:30 at @UniLUISS! 📖

Thanks to Aline Mungiu Pippidi and Seth Jaffe for the invite—looking forward to the discussion! #PoliticalScience #History
February 4, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Join us online on Feb 14, 2025 for a deep dive into my second book "Islam, Sultans, and the Printing Press" 📖🕌. Featuring an all-star lineup @timurkuran.bsky.social
@izading.bsky.social
@ahmetkuru.bsky.social
@annagbusse.bsky.social
@aspaglayan.bsky.social

DM me if you'd like to join!
February 3, 2025 at 10:28 AM