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The file presents at the beginning some relevant passages of the law under which the first free elections of the Romanian post-communist party were held – they provide technical details on the election and on the assig...

The article represents an analysis of the 2016 Romanian general elections in terms of two types of factors. The first factor is a technical one and it is represented by the electoral law, specifically the principle and t...

There are numerous authors who talk about the European secularization of the 21st century, about a clear distinction between the Church and the State. However, the present article provides some empirical arguments which ...

Suspension of the president is a subject that recurs on the public agenda. The purpose of this article is to make an incursion in the constitutional process of suspending from office the President of Romania, by highligh...

Review of: Peter Molloy, Lumea dispărută a comunismului. O istorie orală a vieţii cotidiene în spatele cortinei de fier

In this article we publish the novel correspondence of Mircea Vulcănescu, undersecretary of state in Antonescu government, with his superior Alexandru Neagu, Minister of Finance. This correspondence is important because...

As of February to November, 2010, the “Elie Wiesel” National Institute for the Study of the Holocaust in Romania developed a historical and archeological research project aiming to confirm the existence of a possible...

The global economic crisis has dramatically affected the Romanian economy and consequently the Romanian labour market. The Romanian right-wing government tackled these challenges by cutting 25% of the public sector salar...

The neorealist theory developed by Kenneth Waltz is one of the most important theories of international relations. The most significant predictions of his theory is that the balancing behavior is a systemic product, whic...

This article aims at presenting some of the difficulties of the nowadays research of the recent past. Three aspects will be put under scrutiny: the difficulty of dealing with the sources, the conceptual tools at the disp...

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 ...

The present study approaches republicanism as an alternative way to (re)thinking the politics and the state, by relating constitutional and civic republicanism.

Local elections 2012 have found Timisoara in a long lasting situation of political exceptionalism: the mayor in office, coming from an almost dissoluted party was reaching the end of his forth mandate. My paper has three...

At Chicago NATO Summit, held on the 20th –the 21st of May 2012, it was declared the end of the first operational phase of the NATO missile shield in Europe. There are two NATO countries, Romania and Turkey, countries l...

The paper describes the evolution and the role of communication in human society, examining forms of censorship applied over time, and the types of crises that affect communication in modern society. In particular, this ...

While trying to understand the deeper meanings of the transition from communism to post communism in Romania, the study analyses the evolution of urban environment. The focus is especially on the evolution of community i...

The paper aims to outline the perspective of the most important conservative author of this century on the adequate understanding of ideology – ideology as abbreviation of a tradition – and his typical conservative a...

Strongly rooted in the existential matrix of each people, identity has defining factors that are consecrated, in a political-legal form within their constitutions. The present study reveals the forms and modalities by wh...

Romanian Revolution of December 1989, represented a fierce struggle between the civilian population and the communist political class existing, as well as the Department of State Security at the time, having Nicolae Ceau...

The present study attempts to define the concept of discrimination, in order to highlight several manifestation forms, this endeavour being absolutely necessary with relation to its analysis, making possible the moral an...

The success of democratic order in post-communist countries depends on the balance of political parties, the equilibrium of electoral systems and the role played by the social capital in spreading the rules of democracy....

The article represents an analysis of the Romanian political and social space. It captures a series of phenomena that have formed a background for the 2016 parliamentary elections and marked the post-election evolutions ...

The article reviews the dynamics of voting systems practiced in Romania, as resulting from changes to the legal framework during the 25 years of post-communism, trying to answer the question whether the legislative effer...