Crina Viju-Miljusevic

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Crina Viju-Miljusevic (PhD, University of Saskatchewan, 2008) is Associate Professor in the Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies at Carleton University, where she has taught since 2009. She was awarded the Jean Monnet Chair “EU External Relations: Comparative Regionalism in Eurasia” for the period 2022-2025 with the main focus on the EU’s sponsored policies within the Eurasian region and the EU-China relations. She currently serves as the Director of the Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (EURUS) at Carleton University (2021-2024). She is also the Associate Director of the Centre for European Studies (CES), a Carleton University Research Centre with the mandate to further research, teaching, and public outreach activities in the area of European Studies.

Crina’s research interests include the economic effects of different trade policies applied within the EU, US and Canada, European economic integration, and the EU as an external actor. Crina’s current research focuses on the EU trade policy, Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) as well as the EU, Russia and China as competing actors in Eurasia. With Francesco Duina, she is in the process of publishing an edited volume, Standardizing the World: EU Trade policy and the Road to Convergence (Oxford University Press, 2023) that seeks to produce a comprehensive and comparative assessment of the EU’s standardizing efforts across the globe and across policy areas. Her research articles have appeared in leading journals, including Journal of Public Policy, Journal of World Trade, World Economy, Energy Policy and Journal of Agricultural Economics.

Crina has been awarded research grants from different granting agencies. In cooperation with Mukhtar Hajizada and Martin Geiger, she currently holds an Insight Development Grant (2022-2024) from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), on the topic of Comparative Regionalism in Eurasia. She has also been awarded as an applicant or co-applicant several grants from the EU Erasmus+ Programme.

Crina has taught in the Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies since 2009. Topics of her teaching include European integration as well as economies in transition.

Her full CV can be found here.