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22 years ago, The Zapatista Army of National Liberation have begun what they call “a war against oblivion.” The rebels that are part of the guerrilla defined themselves at times as Mexicans, Indians, peasants, poor, ...

Review of Sandu Frunză, Publicitatea și administrația publică sub presiunea eticii

The paradox of the coexistence of two canonical Metropolitan Churches in Bessarabia (Moldovan Metropolitan Church – subordinated to the Moscow Patriarchate and Metropolitan Church of Bessarabia – under the canonical ...

It took a tragedy to wake shared sense of responsibility and involvement , the awareness of the need for profound change in Romanian society. Disaster victims has exceeded the borders of Romania being one an Italian and ...

Political party in the Republic of Macedonia began to operate after independence and the adoption of the Constitution in November 1991 and has since become an integral part of the political scene and the data from the Ce...

This article represents a critical reading of Ellen Meiksins Wood’s book The Origin of Capitalism. In the first part of the article, I present Wood’s thesis concerning the historical origin of capitalism and its poli...

Review of Florin Müller, Societate, ideologie, dictaturi

This article is starting from the “delegative democracy” concept, originally proposed by Guillermo O’Donnell in 1994 and intent to prove the hypothesis that there are cases where delegative democracies do not start...

Review of: Pierre Manent, Știința politică autentică. Un dialog cu Bénédicte Delorme-Montini

This article aims to put forward some of the most important problems surrounding the very controversial relationship between journalists and secret services. There is very little interest in academically analysing this p...

The present study is based on needs - action paradigm, showing the causal role of youth needs: cognitive and social needs in the online communication. In Collective case, social networks are becoming the main source of i...

The paper focuses on how ideas influenced political change in Romania and what effect this had on the people on an individual and collective level. It will briefly look at what people had to embrace in terms of social re...

The theoretical debate on democracy for a longer period is one of the most dynamic debates within the political sciences, associated with plenty of controversies and paradoxes in terms of lack of consistent principles of...

The article announces that The Sphere of Politics will be published in a new editorial formula which will be nevertheless about continuity. The Sphere of Politics will further be a cast of the reflection on politics and ...

The article represents an analysis of the 2016 local elections in the broader context of the paradigm of political change, which is dominant in the Romanian public space. The starting premise is that local elections coul...

The article approaches the competing corporatist discourses in pre-communist Romania from the standpoint of their relation with the process of the development of professional associations and professional chambers, itsel...

This study analyzes the results of a sociological survey on the opinions of a group of 150 students on social and political consequences of fire in the Colectiv Club in Bucharest, on 30 October 2015. The research was con...

The end of the Cold War meant for the South-Eastern European countries an increased effort for establishing a market based economy and democratic institutions. One raised issue regarding democratization was the reform of...

This article sets to analyse the issue of constitutional reform in Romania in the aftermath of the 2009 referendum which approved the transition to a unicameral legislature and the reduction of the number of its members ...

After a paved way towards democratization over the last decade, the inconsistencies of the Turkish reforms and the escalating “authoritarian“ trends awake the interest of political analysts. Why is Turkey unable to h...

The article analyzes the political effects of the tragedy of Romanian Club Collective resulted in street demonstrations which led to the dismissal of the Ponta government and establishment consisting of the new governmen...

The paper deals with political hate speech in the media in the former Yugoslavia, with a special focus on Montenegro. The smallest of all ex-Yugoslav republics, Montenegro has gone through turbulent times of political co...

Review of Giorgio Agamben, Stasis. Războiul civil ca paradigmă politică