Clara Volintiru

portrait of Clara Volintiru

Clara Volintiru is a high-ranking official currently serving as Secretary of State within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE) of Romania. Earlier, Clara was the regional director for the Black Sea region of the German Marshall Fund of the United States. She previously was a senior expert for various international organizations such as the World Bank, the European […]

Ban, C., Medve-Balint, G., & Volintiru, C. (2025). The politics of developmental alliances and municipal industrial policy in Central and Eastern European cities. Competition & Change, 29(3-4), 506-526.

Abstract: Comparative political economists have been late to acknowledge the role of municipalities in industrial policy. Given that industrial policy is traditionally the province of central governments, when and why do cities follow national industrial policy priorities and when and why do they deviate from them? To address the question, the article compares three middle-sized […]