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The official papers of the Romanian Communist Party came into possession of Army that had evacuated them form the Central Committee’s headquarters during December 1989 Revolution. Gen. (r) Nicolae Spiroiu, the minister...

Both disinformation and propaganda are basic means of manipulation in the Russian society, thus contributing to the electoral decision-making process, as well as to the consolidation of the „orchestrated democracy“.I...

This article is dealing with Romanian electoral system from a different perspective analyzing those technical and legal components of an electoral law which are neglected in classical perspectives regarding electoral sys...

The article analyzes the specificities of Romanian hate speech over a period of twelve years through a qualitative analysis of 384 Decisions of the National Council for Combating Discrimination. The study employs a codin...

At the beginning of 1989, the Western Civil Society expressed its most together with violation of the human rights as well as Romanians’ free of movement triggered a huge backlash toward the regime. An extensive civil ...

The article explores specific intersections within the gender, politics and media triangle in order to better understand the positioning of media in regards to political representation of women. The broad theoretical umb...

In 2008, Romania instituted an electoral system that uses proportional methods for distributing seats to political parties and uninominal constituencies for assigning parliamentary seats to candidates. Uninominal constit...

Review of Rudolf Dinu, Studi Italo-Romeni. Dipomazia e società, 1879-1914 • Italien-Romanian Studies. Diplomacy and Society, 1879-1914, seconda edizione

This article describes how Romanian Communist Party obtained the control of mass-media between 1948 and 1989. Like any totalitarian regime, the communist state put into control printing press, radio and television throug...

After the Romanian Revolution of 1989, the interest of mass-media the national defense increased significantly. In order to understand the way the issues of national defense ware reflected in mass-media, we intend to ana...

This article contains a case study over the 2012 presidential campaign in France. The author elucidates the political context, positioning techniques of the main candidates – Nicolas Sarkozy and Francois Hollande, basi...

In 1953, Radu Dinulescu, former chief of the 2nd Section within the General Staff of the Romanian Army, was convicted to 15 years of forced labor and 10 years of civic degradation. He was found guilty of several counts a...

European Union has been dealing with the migration phenomenon for a very long time. However, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, in 1989, this topic has proved to be more present than ever. Backed by the economic crisis a...

In the present study the author examines the evolution of the Italian Welfare State. In the context of the 2008 global economic crisis some of the sectors framing the welfare state in Italy have gradually turned into vul...

The essay aims at replying to Doru Pop’s review article to the book Strania istorie a comunismului românesc by Lucian Boia which claims that the what happened during the period between 1948 and 1989 was not communism....

Review of: Jan-Werner Müller, Ce este populismul? traducere de Irina-Marina Borțoi, Editura Polirom, Iași, 2017, 179 pp., ISBN: 978-973-46-6912-7

In the present study the author sketches the route of the nationalist-xenophobic discourse which characterized the Romanian society during the first half on the 19th century (1825-1880). The first hypothesis is that the ...

The paper is a theoretical account of the Romanian Revolution viewed from the eyes of an American international security strategist who recounts his childhood in Romania. The author believes that the unresolved nature of...

The aim of this paper is to describe the process of Romanian collectivization between 1949-1962. The Communist Constitution from 1948 and the Land Reform from 1945 played also an important role to the Romanian collectivi...

The intervention of the USSR, Poland, Bulgaria, the German Democratic Republic and Hungary in Czechoslovakia on the night of 20 to 21 August 1968 produced a huge shock in the international community, but also a deepening...

The author examines the crucial differences between the breakdown of the totalitarian communist regimes in Central Europe and in Romania. For Central-Europeans, Westerners and the international community, the anti-commun...

The paper draws upon two texts authored by Moses Mendelssohn and Immanuel Kant. They both address the question on the meaning and significance of Aufklärung raised by Berlinische Monatsschrift (1783-1784). Seemingly, th...

The paper focuses on both fascism and communism in an attempt to analyze them as politics „pioneering” phenomena. My goal is to see the way fascism and communism as historical realities, ideal-types, and as tropes we...

Review of: Alexander Wendt, Teoria socială a politicii internaţionale