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Critical Discourse Analysis is a kind of analysis which seeks to discover the relationship among power, ideology and discourse. Recently, the growing Sino-Japanese dispute over the Diaoyu Islands, causing widespread conc...

The presidential elections reflect the electoral support provided to various political leaders. One driver for voting is the citizens’ preference for specific features that leaders possess. This article aims to investi...

Based on the European Integration paradigm, the present paper aims to elaborate a set of prescriptions for the Romanian economic policy that would integrate the principles of circular economy. The hypothesis of this anal...

The present article aims at addressing the role played by media in influencing young people’s political and social attitudes. In an era where debates about minimal media effects are arousing, we want to analyse if and ...

This article analyzes the post-communist Romanian political system from a dual perspective, the formal, institutional one and the functional, political perspective. The main novelty posited by the article is the concept ...

Over the past five decades there have been regionalization bills in Europe, more or less successful. The representative ones for the subject in question are those elaborated in Francophile and Francophone countries such ...

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 explores the political aspects of national minority identity by analyzing the discourse of the political representative of the Hungarian minority in post-communist Romania (the Democratic Union of Hungarians...

Freight is a key variable of the economy, has a crucial role in the spatial relationships between different and distant markets and, to that extent, represents the physical medium by which exchanges of goods are realized...

The Eastern Question posed by the decaying Ottoman Empire re-emerged after the Sultan defeated Russia with the aid of his Western allies, along with the notion that a buffer state between Austria, Russia and Turkey could...

This paper examines how the party system in post-communist Romania has evolved following the nine rounds of parliamentary elections. Using Blondel’s classic explanatory model and, in addition, the ENP formula, the pape...

Beside any political explanation, the only think that have remained constant, in the last 25 years of electoral campaings in Romania, was the cleavage between two different visions regarding developing the Romanian socie...

This article analyzes a genuine, albeit insufficiently studied phenomenon: ”the sociological monography crisis” that appeared within the Gustian School between 1932-1934. The study of this crisis – which emerged ag...

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...

This article represents a brief theoretical overview of the contentious politics field. Its broad aim is to present the emergence of a research domain and of its basic characteristics. But, more importantly, the purpose ...

This study tries to point out just a few of the most important characteristics of the toughest totalitarian regime of the contemporary period, that of the Cambodia’s Khmer Rouges. I underlined the main particularities ...

Review of: Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith, Manualul dictatorului. De ce să te porţi rău e aproape întotdeauna o bună politică

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...

In this article author intends to identify positioning strategies of Vladimir Putin in presidential elections March 4, 2012. What is new for this election is that for the first time were installed Web cameras at 90.000 p...

The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is an intractable conflict that has been the agenda of the international community for over two decades, has gone through sporadic outbreaks of violence, as well as multiple and failed peace...

Christianity understands freedom not as the freedom to do whatever one chooses, but rather as the freedom to do what is morally right. Freedom is to take responsibility for ones actions, hence the goal of human freedom i...

The categorical defeat of Marine Le Pen in the second round of the presidential election in France by Emmanuel Macron was applauded by many observers as evidence of the triumph of liberal democracy in front of nationalis...

The article discusses the fake news phenomenon as a social act, analyzed together with what has caused it and what accompanies it: the culture of authenticity, digital communication and its specificity (emphasis on image...

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...