Published & Media Work

“America’s AI Iron Curtain”, Project Syndicate, 3 April 2025, https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/us-ai-diffusion-export-controls-hurt-central-eastern-europe-could-help-russia-china-by-sona-muzikarova-2025-04

“As the US steps back in Europe, Central Europe must step up”, Atlantic Council, 20 March 2025, https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/as-the-us-steps-back-in-europe-central-europe-must-step-up/

“Central and Eastern Europe’s Bid for AI Dominance”, Project Syndicate, 21 November 2024, https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/ai-potential-to-drive-growth-in-central-eastern-europe-by-sona-muzikarova-2024-11

“Les fonds de pension d’Europe centrale peuvent jouer un rôle-clé dans le développement de la région”, Le Monde, 5 September 2024, https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2024/09/05/les-fonds-de-pension-d-europe-centrale-peuvent-jouer-un-role-cle-dans-le-developpement-de-la-region_6304800_3232.html

“Divisive politics has brought nothing good to Slovakia or the US”, Al Jazeera English, 17 July 2024, https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/7/17/divisive-politics-has-brought-nothing-good-to-slovakia-or-the-us

“Slovakia’s Anti-Democratic Government Is Doubling Down”, Project Syndicate, 17 June 2024, https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/slovak-pm-robert-fico-uses-assassination-attempt-to-erode-democratic-safeguards-by-sona-muzikarova-2024-06

“Incident Room: Attempting to Kill a Prime Minister”, BBC Documentary, 17 May 2024, https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001zwvx/incident-room-attempting-to-kill-a-prime-minister

“Slovakia’s presidential choice reinforces its anti-Western leanings”, Atlantic Council, 16 April 2024, https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/slovakias-presidential-choice-reinforces-its-anti-western-leanings/

“World Business Report: What now after Baltimore bridge collapse?” (Segment on Automotive Manufacturing in Central and Eastern Europe, starting at 21:00 ''), BBC, 27 March 2024, https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct4zyk

“Eastern Europe Needs a New Immigration Narrative”, Project Syndicate, 20 March 2024, https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/central-eastern-europe-must-change-immigration-narrative-by-sona-muzikarova-2024-03

“Faced with China, Central Europe’s automotive sector is playing catchup”, Euronews, 22 February 2024, https://www.euronews.com/next/2024/02/22/faced-with-china-central-europes-automotive-sector-is-playing-catchup

“Repurposing Slovakia’s Automotive Industry for a New Era of Geo-Economics” (co-author Viliam Ostatník), Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) & Adapt Institute, 31 January 2024, https://www.cipe.org/resources/repurposing-slovakias-automotive-industry-for-a-new-era-of-geo-economics/

“Navigating subsidy reform at the WTO” (co-author Sophia Busch), Atlantic Council, 16 January 2024, https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-research-reports/issue-brief/navigating-subsidy-reform-at-the-wto/

“Europe’s Chance to Finish Off Illiberal Democracy”, Project Syndicate, 21 November 2023, https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/lessons-for-europe-from-poland-and-slovakia-by-sona-muzikarova-2023-11

“More than democracy is at stake in polls in Slovakia and Poland”, Al Jazeera English, 26 September 2023, https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/9/26/more-than-democracy-is-at-stake-in-polls-in-slovakia-and-poland

“Fico looks set to defy the odds in Slovakia”, Financial Times, 5 September 2023, https://www.ft.com/content/a4451fa5-82d9-4b4a-bf16-21f3a1ce262f

“What 3D Paradigm Shifts Has the Ukraine War Forged in the Frontline Countries?” (co-author Ingrid Brocková), Harvard W3D: Women in Defense, Diplomacy, and Development Thrēo Magazine, 15 July 2023, https://thethreo.com/what-3d-paradigm-shifts-has-the-ukraine-war-forged-in-the-frontline-countries/

“China is losing Eastern Europe”, Atlantic Council, 19 June 2023, https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/econographics/china-is-losing-eastern-europe/

“Europe should avoid past pitfalls when dealing with China”, Euronews, 12 June 2023, https://www.euronews.com/2023/06/12/from-brussels-to-berlin-europe-should-avoid-past-pitfalls-when-dealing-with-china

“Greening Eastern Europe’s Growth Engines”, Project Syndicate, 9 May 2023, https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/central-eastern-europe-lagging-climate-transition-by-sona-muzikarova-2023-05

“Eastern Europe must not lag behind on the green transition”, Al Jazeera English, 1 April 2023, https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/4/1/eastern-europe-must-not-lag-behind-on-the-green-transition

“Poland’s Ukrainian Rehabilitation”, Project Syndicate, 20 February 2023, https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/poland-new-influence-in-europe-but-must-shore-up-democracy-at-home-by-sona-muzikarova-2023-02

“Why some EU countries in the east are still pro-Russia”, Al Jazeera English, 6 February 2023, https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/2/6/why-some-eu-countries-still-harbour-pro-russian-sentiments

“Europe’s energy security asymmetry”, POLITICO Europe, 19 May 2022, https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-energy-security-asymmetry/

“A Bottom-Up Approach to Education Reform” (co-author Miroslav Beblavý), Project Syndicate, 26 October 2021, https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/bottom-up-approach-education-reform-by-miroslav-beblavy-and-sona-muzikarova-2021-10

“No debt ratio is safe for small EU countries” (co-author Ivan Šrámko), bne IntelliNews, 13 September 2021, https://www.intellinews.com/globsec-no-debt-ratio-is-safe-for-small-eu-countries-220462/?source=baltic-states

“CBDCs: Authorities bank on digital currencies to take back control from crypto” (co-author Oscar Sanz Paris, Juraj Somora), Euronews, 15 June 2021,  https://www.euronews.com/next/2021/06/15/cbdcs-authorities-bank-on-digital-currencies-to-take-back-control-from-crypto

“The world needs to better prepare for future catastrophes” (co-author Thomas Wieser, Vazil Hudák), Euronews, 10 June 2021, https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2021/06/10/the-world-needs-to-better-prepare-for-future-catastrophes-view

“If the pandemic can't unite Europe's east and west, what can?”, Euronews, 3 May 2021,   https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2021/05/03/if-the-pandemic-can-t-unite-europe-s-east-and-west-what-can-view

“Weaning Europe off COVID bailouts will be a tricky balancing act” (co-author Ivan Mikloš), Euronews, 14 April 2021, https://www.euronews.com/2021/04/14/weaning-europe-off-covid-bailouts-will-be-a-tricky-balancing-act-view 

“Countries with a culture of innovation are vaccinating more quickly”, COVID-19 Blog: London School of Economics & Political Science, 1 April 2021, https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/covid19/2021/04/01/countries-with-a-culture-of-innovation-are-vaccinating-more-quickly/ 

“How Central and Eastern Europe can overhaul its dated growth narrative” (co-author José-Emilio Gumiel, Branislav Žúdel, Daniel Dujava), COVID-19 Blog: London School of Economics & Political Science, 22 January 2021, https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/covid19/2021/01/22/how-central-and-eastern-europe-can-overhaul-its-dated-growth-narrative/

“The coronavirus crisis highlights the need to diversify risk sharing in Europe”, New Atlanticist Blog, Atlantic Council, May 7 2020, https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/the-coronavirus-crisis-highlights-the-need-to-diversify-risk-sharing-in-europe/

"Productivity Convergence Between Local and Foreign-Owned Enterprises", 2018, OECD Technical Paper to the OECD 2019 Economic Survey of the Slovak Republic https://www.oecd.org/economy/surveys/Slovak-Republic-2019-OECD-economic-survey-overview.pdf 

"Do Euro Area Expansions Die of Old Age?", Ministry of Finance of the Slovak Republic, June 2018, https://www.mfsr.sk/sk/financie/institut-financnej-politiky/publikacie-ifp/ekonomicke-analyzy/49-do-euro-area-expansions-die-old-age-jun-2018-2.html

"Cross-checking the Now", Ministry of Finance of the Slovak Republic, December 2017, https://www.mfsr.sk/sk/financie/institut-financnej-politiky/publikacie-ifp/ekonomicke-analyzy/46-cross-checking-now-december-2017.html

"Real Convergence in the Euro Area: A Long-Term Perspective" (co-author J.L. Diaz del Hoyo, E. Dorrucci, F.F. Heinz), ECB Occasional Paper 203, 1 December 2017, ISBN: 978-92-899-2865-6, https://ssrn.com/abstract=3082205

"Data on industrial new orders for the euro area" (co-author G.J. de Bondt, H.C. Dieden, I. Pavlova), Data in Brief 9(C), September 2016, DOI:10.1016/j.dib.2016.08.068 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/308043597_Data_on_industrial_new_orders_for_the_euro_area

"Modelling industrial new orders for the euro area" (co-author G.J. de Bondt, H.C. Dieden, I. Vincze), ECB Statistics Paper 06, 9 December 2014, https://www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/scpsps/ecbsp6.en.pdf?15f432f6ec1ba634f7e520942321b9e7

"Modelling industrial new orders" (co-author G.J. de Bondt, H.C. Dieden, I. Vincze), Economic Modelling 41 (2014) 46 54 http://sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264999314001321

"Introducing the ECB indicator on euro area industrial new orders" (co-author G.J. de Bondt, H.C. Dieden, I. Vincze), ECB Occasional Paper 149, 26 June 2013,  https://www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/scpops/ecbocp149.pdf?85cf812c979459e235c6175a31900146