ROMANIA AND THE RHYTHMS OF ITS MODERNIZATIONS
ROMANIA AND THE RHYTHMS OF ITS MODERNIZATIONS

Summary/Abstract: In the geographical area where Romania is located, it represents a singular case: it is the only country that speaks a language of Latin origin. We are trying to assess whether this particularity has been reflected as an encouraging element of its modernization. Throughout history, for Romanians, modernization has been synonymous with Europeanization. During three stages, short in history, Romanians came into contact with Western civilization: Roman colonization, the reverberations of the ideas of the revolutions of the nineteenth century and the post-communist era. We evaluate today, that every time the modernization / Europeanization effort of the Romanians was consistent and fast.

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