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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...

This paper begins with the premise that the issue of the relationship between the concept and the political reality in the case of ideology can be explained by using the analysis of two important terms pertaining to cont...

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...

Although the literature on China’s rising to proeminence has almost become a field in itsself, rather few studies dwell upon the bilateral relations between world’s still hegemon and its challenger. The present study...

This study tries, although we are aware of its limits, to offer two methods through which Romanian democracy could overcome its state of „non-development”. Beyond the objective and the subjective causes of the democr...

During the Second World War, the Romanian government turned ethnic cleansing into a top priority. Mass killing, ghettoization, and brutal deportations were accepted as effective means to achieve ultra-nationalistic and r...

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...

From Ricardo and Smith the deficits were seen as the one of „the most terrible scourges which was ever invented to afflict a nation” as a system which tends to make us less thrifty, to blind us to our real situation....

Review of: Clara Mareș, Zidul de sticlă. Ion D. Sîrbu în arhivele Securităţii

Review of: Cristian VASILE, Politicile culturale comuniste în timpul regimului Gheorghiu-Dej

Review of Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

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 ...

Review of: William J. Connell, Giles Constable, Sacrilegiu şi răscumpărare în Florenţa renascentistă. Cazul lui Antonio Rinaldeschi

Interview with Thierry de Montbrial

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...

This paper aims to explore the normative grounds of both equality of opportunity and non-discrimination, working with the underlying assumption of a connection between the two. In order to test this assumption, various c...

For more than two years, the most used expression in relation with the European Union refers to the imminent monetary „disintegration”. Such a scenario is not realistic at all, because it does not take into account t...

The state reform is one of the most present issues on the political and public agendas since 2009. The President of Romania is a leading figure in this topic; reason for which an in depth analysis of his speeches might g...

The United Kingdom’s security policy between 1997-2007, the time when Tony Blair���s Labour dominated the Cabinet, cannot be easily distinguished from the foreign policy. The two are strategically combined and ar...

Review of: Alexander Wendt, Teoria socială a politicii internaţionale

While constructivist perspective in International Relations argues that humanitarian interventions are becoming more common, the realists believe that the international community intervenes selectively, preserving the in...

2012 election, which took place under exceptional political auspices, is generally considered atypical when compared to the other five post-communist local election cycles, the two reasons for this being the increased ci...

Almost all academics focus on major cities when it comes to analyze the local elections. The electoral process taking place in small villages of Romania does not capture the interest of the mainstream media. Therefore I ...