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ILLEGAL MIGRATION, THE GORDIAN NODE OF THE ACTUAL GEOPOLITICAL CONTEXT

ILLEGAL MIGRATION, THE GORDIAN NODE OF THE ACTUAL GEOPOLITICAL CONTEXT

Author(s): Emanuel Sebastian Georgescu / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: illegal migration; the globalization phenomenon; Gordian node; conversion to democracy; Middle East; Africa.

Illegal migration has achieved paroxysmal odds in 2015, and even if the amplitude of the phenomenon has decreased it continues to incite, an already largely divided European community, at ample and heated discussions. This “Gordian node”, a real challenge forth European Union, is a direct result of the explosive mix between: the attempts of “converting to democracy”, globalization phenomenon and the increasing poverty at alarming levels in the deliberately destabilized regions of Middle East and Africa. The interests of the great powers, in order to protect Western multinationals or the race after hydrocarbon, have made vast and prosperous regions to ruin, becoming again pre-modern enclaves characterized by confusion,chaos and despair. Notions as Europe or USA are no longer causing former reverberations in the Arab world and have lost most of its advantages except some corrupt, unfair and abusive “export democracies”. These produced imbalances require a redefinition of the concept of sovereignty, and in order to stabilize the situation, the need for concessions and balance is acutely felt.

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Keywords: media; communication; politics; fake news; endnotes;

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Keywords: media; communication; politics; fake news; bibliography;

Chinese-American military rivalry

Chińsko-amerykańska rywalizacja militarna

Author(s): Mikołaj Marcinkowski / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 0

Poster War – Visuality and Ideologies in the Period of the Sopron Referendum

Plakátháború – vizualitás és ideológiák a Sopron környéki népszavazás időszakában

Author(s): Szilvia Szoták / Language(s): Hungarian / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Sopron Referendum;poster war

On the 14th of December 1921, a referendum began, during which Sopron and the inhabitants of eight surrounding villages could decide to choose the supremacy of Hungary or Austria. In the referendum area, 57% of the total population was German, 36% Hungarian, and 5% Croatian. The referendum was preceded by a real placard campaign, during which posters of Hungarian and German language proclaimed nationalist ideologies in the public space: the texts showed vigorously how the two nations felt about each other. Following the latest flow of the linguistic landscape research, I searched for an explanation of the inscriptions in the ideologies by trying to find out the views of the community that read the placards. I also tried to reveal the strategies of the creators of the placards and their common cultural, historical, and social factors that played a decisive role in the development of their strategies.

Macedonian Diplomatic Bulletin 2007/09

Macedonian Diplomatic Bulletin 2007/09

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): English

Keywords: North Macedonia; Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council (EAPC); Security Forum; NATO; fighting corruption;

MARITIME HYBRID CONFLICTS AND THE RESPONSE POTENTIAL OF NAVAL FORCES

MARITIME HYBRID CONFLICTS AND THE RESPONSE POTENTIAL OF NAVAL FORCES

Author(s): Cristian Alexandru Hudișteanu / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: hybrid conflict; grey area; confrontation; response;

The rhetoric in the last decade of specialists in the field warns against hybrid threats, and by extension, against hybrid, grey areas conflicts – more precisely conflicts consisting of unclear actions in terms of their military character. The narrative on this issue states that this would be the new winning formula in the design and conduct of conflicts by various entities interested in doing so. At present, in the sphere of global security, actors are starting to rethink the strategies in place and develop optimal response measures to what many think is the new way in which at least some of the following conflicts at the regional level and beyond will develop. This study aims to bring into discussion the possibility that hybridity will take over the maritime domain, as well as to discuss the potential effects on maritime security and the need for response from the Naval Forces

About Democracy: The Culture and the City

Относно демокрацията: културата и градът

Author(s): Giovanni Lobrano / Language(s): Bulgarian / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Democracy; Res Publica; culture; legal science

The article reviews some of the aspects of the so-called “insufficiency of democracy” in contemporary world related to the inconsistency between the term of democracy and the notion of it. In the attempts to understand and reconstruct democracy, the author proposes an exploration of ancient civilization because the issue of democracy raises the issue of culture and its understanding in the first place, especially in its historical and legal aspect. Just then comes the political will.A series of summaries and comparisons has been made between democracy in Ancient Greece and in Rome, between the perception of ancient traditions and models during the time of bourgeois revolutions and in the modern world. The author assumes that the historical and dogmatic knowledge was taken apart from democracy and from the republic and it was not discovered again in the science of law of the twentieth century.One of the current tasks of legal science and, more particularly, of Romanist science, is to restore in modern culture the knowledge of the democracy and of the republic in their ancient context and essence.

African research in political anthropology

Badania afrykańskie w antropologii politycznej

Author(s): Anna Malewska-Szałygin / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: political anthropology; Africa; ethnographic fieldwork; concepts and theories

The paper presents arguments for the thesis that Africa has proven to be a research areaparticularly inspiring for the creation of new methodologies in social and culturalanthropology. Ethnographic research conducted on this continent, especially regardingissues of politics and power, has stimulated researchers to improve existing and seek fornew descriptive and analytical tools: from functional-structural approaches, throughprocessual ones connected to the Manchester School, related to symbolic anthropology(Cohen, Kertzer), to postcolonial studies of Achille Mbembe and the findings of LilaAbu-Lughod related to globalization.

Challenges for the European Union in the New Millennium: A Crisis of Identity?

Challenges for the European Union in the New Millennium: A Crisis of Identity?

Author(s): Monica Meruțiu,Alexandru Zamșa / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: EU Integration; EU Development; European Culture; European Cultural Identity; European Identity

Robert Schuman’s call from 1958 for a community of peoples in freedom, equality, solidarity and peace and which is deeply rooted in Christian basic values comes to mind when looking at the contemporary European stage today, to the phases of changes and challenges Europe is going through. A paradoxical Europe may appear to one’s sight, a civilization that lost track of itself and knows no longer what it stands for, swept in various crises, culminating with a crisis of identity manifesting itself at different levels, including the economic and political ones. The question of the European identity seems to have aquired a more complex dimension with the efforts to formulate a Treaty Establishing a Constitution for Europe (2004) but also in the context of the enlargement that brought with itself new challenges and intensified the struggle to integrate different religious and secular communities. This reveals once again that providing an answer to the question ‘What is Europe?’ is still provocative for the 21st century Europe. A heir of the Greek, Roman and Judeo-Christian heritage, contemporary Europe seems to be in a state of confusion when it comes to recognizing its religious roots.

Ethno-Political conflicts in the European Union’s Neighbourhood: the Cases of South Ossetia and Abkhazia

Ethno-Political conflicts in the European Union’s Neighbourhood: the Cases of South Ossetia and Abkhazia

Author(s): Laura M. Herţa / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: EU Neighbourhood; Ethno-Political Conflicts; South Caucasus; Georgia; EU; Ossetia; Abkhazia

The article will focus on ethno-political conflicts in South Caucasus, namely on the nature and dynamic of secessionist movements and resulting breakaway republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. The second chief interest herein is centred on the European Union’s declared objectives towards conflicts in Georgia. Firstly, the article will briefly analyze the ethno-political strife in the South Caucasus region and the nationalist resurgence after the dissolution of the USSR and will explore the dynamic of ethno-political violence and the way in which threats and enemies were constructed. Secondly, we will survey the evolution of EU’s contractual ties with Georgia, from the loose Partnership and Cooperation Agreement to the post-2004 inclusion of Georgia in the European Neighbourhood Policy. The main theoretical claims supported throughout the entire account is that 1) social-constructivist assumptions provide a coherent understanding of secessionist movements and 2) a clear analysis on the modalities in which international organizations (i.e. the European Union) act as norm-setters and expect norm-internalization.

Romanian literary criticism: the case of continuity-rupture

Critica literară românească: cazul continuitate-ruptură

Author(s): Natalia Hariton / Language(s): Romanian / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: continuity; rupture; tradition; modernity; literary criticism

One of the most exploited topics of Romanian criticism concerns the place of Roma-nian literature in relation to the literature in the "field of power", based on the terminological binomial continuity-rupture. Leaving the area of a general interpretation, the terms here reach a neuralgic point for the Romanian exegesis, surprising the gap between the will to renew the literature (through rupture) and the will to preserve its traditional background (through continuity). The great Romanian critical theories explore, with the help of the concepts of continuity - rupture, the problem of the status of the Romanian literature in relation to the "center of power" (Pierre Bourdieu), generating a specific vocabulary: the form without background (Titu Maiorescu), synchronism, the change of aesthetic values (Eugen Lovinescu), the national specific (Garabet Ibrăileanu, G. Călinescu), protocronism (Edgar Papu), the "complexes" of Romanian literature (Mircea Martin), the modernization through tradition (Dan C. Mihăilescu), the synchronization with the past (Șerban Axinte), export criticism, "fifth essence" (Andrei Terian), fall culture, mimicry of synchronization (Angelo Mitchievici), delay to European cultures (Ion Bogdan Lefter) etc. Viewed from the perspective of these dimensions, literary criticism gains a strong self-awareness, or legitimizing the critical spirit is not possible without identifying the mechanisms of rupture, but also of continuity. The desire for synchronization derives from the need to accept the idea that the discourse of the writers and critics in Bessarabia is connected to the movement of ideas from the Romanian and Western spaces and proves that they write not only with and for themselves, within the geographical borders, but write with the world.

January 6th and President Trump: A Study of Social Media in Today’s America

January 6th and President Trump: A Study of Social Media in Today’s America

Author(s): Alex Sung,David Douglas Klein / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: censorship; social media; January 6 riot; free speech rights

In the wake of the January 6th mob insurrection at the US Capitol, does the Federal government need to implement protocols that flag insurrection and domestic terrorism on social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter? The US Supreme Court protects Free Speech on privately owned media, but the most popular Internet sites have evolved by 2021 to become wide-spread spaces for public and private communication. Currently, these global platforms are permitted to selectively censor and regulate speech at their discretion without infringing upon First Amendment rights. The ubiquity of social media means that the publicly-available speech (e.g. posts) of Twitter and Facebook’s billions of users is controlled by what’s recently called by Congressional critics and commentators as “Big Tech”. The most recent President of the United States Donald Trump was permanently banned from the largest social media platforms. On July 7, 2021 he filed class-action lawsuits targeting Facebook, Google (owner of YouTube) and Twitter. Many Americans with conservative views feel social media silence their voices, while those with liberal views argue that social media platforms do not eliminate hate speech. This paper will delve into whether increased government oversight and applying the rights of the First Amendment to individuals online can maintain peaceful public discourse, avoiding any future violence. The paper will also provide an overview of the essential legal hurdles the Trump lawsuit faces but will not analyze the strengths and weaknesses of the Trump case.

THE BENEFICIAL SIDE EFFECTS OF THE PANDEMIC

A VILÁGJÁRVÁNY POZITÍV MELLÉKHATÁSAI

Author(s): Orsolya Gergely / Language(s): Hungarian / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: pandemic; challenges; Facebook comments;

In March 2020, educational institutions in Romania were also practically closed overnight, and a large number of people had to go on forced leave or start to work from home. Empirical experience shows that during this period people faced several difficulties: in addition to the fear of the virus, the closure, the curfew, the home office and home schooling. In addition, mothers with small children were most burdened by this period. Despite the many challenges, have people been able to identify and gain positive experiences during this challenging period? We focus on the so-called beneficial side effects of a pandemic from the women’s perspective. Using the method of content analysis – we analysed 1,756 Facebook comments written between 5 and 13 April 2020 –, we present how women from Szeklerland experienced this period and what those positive things were that made them happy.

Dangerous Demographic Change Reinforces Europe’s Declining Image

Dangerous Demographic Change Reinforces Europe’s Declining Image

Author(s): Maria Negreponti-Delivanis,Ioana Panagoreţ / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: demographic evolutions;globalization;economy;birth rate;migration;governance;

Currently, one of the main factors that shows us a picture of Europe's decline is that of demographic change. This process of decline of the West is marked by more than five decades of several indicators and evolutions that show us that although the time of Western civilization is beginning to run out, a new one appears, namely that of the East. This process of decline in which there is an extreme and unprecedented form of capitalism appears more pronounced in Europe compared to the United States and is characterized by: corruption, alienation of peoples from their roots, religion, history, low birth rates, massive flows of migrants and refugees, the totalitarian tendency of governments. Although the signs of decline are numerous, in this paper we will analyze certain demographic developments observed mainly in Europe and which we consider from several points of view dangerous. In addition to these developments, which we consider quite dangerous, globalization is the most important. The paper is structured in four parts, in the first part being presented the basic trends and variations from the population's perspective. In the second and third part are presented the main causes and effects of these variations of the populations and in the fourth part the conclusions of this study.Most of the interpretive analysis of this unwanted stagnation process is based on demographic erosion, population aging, low middle class rates, the invasion of migrants and refugees that change the cultures of the host nations.

EFFICIENCY IN THE DECISION-MAKING PROCESS IN ADOLESCENTS

EFICIENȚA ÎN PROCESUL DECIZIONAL LA ADOLESCENȚI

Author(s): Mirela Spiţă / Language(s): Romanian / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: decision; the efficiency of the decision-making act; techniques for improving the decision-making act

This article brings attention to the following aspects related to the efficiency of the decision-making act: the analysis of decisions, errors which may appear in the decision-making process, stress factors, techniques for improving the decision-making act.

The Pragmatics of Facebook Interactions in Romania and the Republic of Moldova

The Pragmatics of Facebook Interactions in Romania and the Republic of Moldova

Author(s): Alexandra Toma / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: computer-mediated communication; emoji; pragmatic markers; speech acts

This paper presents the results of a survey conducted on a corpus of Facebook posts and compares patterns of online interaction through this social media platform in Romania and the Republic of Moldova, with an emphasis on linguistic methods of expressivity and the pragmatics of communicative exchanges. Moreover, the paper will corroborate the discoveries of the surveys with cultural elements (common and distinct) in order to reveal the way culture is mirrored in communication through Facebook.

ANALYSES OF AVAILABILITY USING GIS TAKING INTO CONSIDERATION OF REAL TERRAIN

ANALYSES OF AVAILABILITY USING GIS TAKING INTO CONSIDERATION OF REAL TERRAIN

Author(s): Matej Močko,Martina Zigová,Michal Ševčík,Imrich Jakab / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: cumulative availability; GIS; 3D dimension; tourism; High Tatras;

Term “availability” is most often understood as easiness of achieving a site or a services from other places which can be measured as e. g. distance, travel costs or time duration. Despite of broad usage, distance calculating is often methodically incorrect because it takes place in two-dimensional environment. This causes distortion of results which are in fact threedimensional. In our paper we focus on calculating real spatial and time distance with considering a fact that real world is not two-dimensional and terrain has often many characteristics and terrain roughness. Calculations are made on road network and hiking trails in High Tatras Mountains by use of our own tool which uses functions of GRASS GIS software. Final map layers are described and overlaid with services, tourist places of interest and phenomena of High Tatras Mountains.

From an Adolescent Freak to a Hope-Spreading Messianic Demigod

From an Adolescent Freak to a Hope-Spreading Messianic Demigod

Author(s): Michael Stierstorfer / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Christianity; demigod; fantasy literature; Percy Jackson; Pirates of the Caribbean; Poseidon; redeemer; Syrena Legacy; Siren; superhero

International fantasy literature for teenage readers based on motifs of the ancient Greek and Roman mythology often focuses on an adolescent protagonist, who has a lot of problems with growing up. Therefore a mythic narrative emerges in the plot to help the main character cope with his or her problems. This narrative, filled with supernatural incidents, is a vehicle for the protagonist to become a strong and self-confident adult, who saves the world from evil mythical creatures. This paper investigates the famous "Percy Jackson" series by Rick Riordan, the popular "Blue Secrets" series by Anna Banks and the blockbuster movie "Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar’s Revenge" by Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg to demonstrate how normal human protagonists are described as holy Redeemer-figures by being amalgamated with the mythic god Poseidon. In this way mythic motifs are mixed with Christian values to create a modern kind of superhero, giving people a new sense in life. This superhero spreads hope for the threatened mankind, which is very important in (today’s) dark times.

STRENGTHENING ROMANIAS' RESILIENCE TO RUSSIAN DISINFORMATION

STRENGTHENING ROMANIAS' RESILIENCE TO RUSSIAN DISINFORMATION

Author(s): Andreia-Mariana POP / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Romania; resilience; fake news; disinformation; propaganda;

The main purpose of this paper is to improve public awareness of the influence campaigns carried out in the Romanian public space, via traditional and internet media that are at odds with national interests. In the context of an ongoing Russian disinformation campaign that frequently spreads disinformation among civil society members and, more concerning, generates hostility between the Romanian citizens and their officials, the most common Russian narratives used in Romania are analyzed, and their misleading aspects are revealed. The paper also covers the resilience approach at national level, as well as at the EU and NATO levels, in order to better understand the instruments and procedures available for lowering risks and managing threats affecting the Romanian society. In light of the current situation in Ukraine, the study presents a series of conclusions regarding how the dissemination of misleading narratives influenced the information environment in Romania.