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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...

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...

Review of: Alexander Wendt, Teoria socială a politicii internaţionale

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 article analyzes how political prisoners from communist Romania survived after release. They don’t allow rejoining in jobs had before imprisonment, and their families suffered regime oppression to. Authorities mon...

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

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...

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...

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

Review of: William Taubman, Khrushchev. The man, his era

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

Review of: Paul Johnson, Socrates: A man for our times

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 ...

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...

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...

Review of: Mihail E.Ionescu, România orientală. 160 de ani, 1848-2009

Crisis of the political mass parties does not necessarily mean party crisis. They buy new strength from the always narrowest relationship which entertain with the state institutions. Parties go back to be of the élites ...

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...