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This empirical view on the current „state” of Romania has as main objective to emphasize that the contemporary economic crisis actually revealed some other escalated crises in the very heart of the Romanian society. The vicious circle determined by three crises – one political, another social-institutional and last, but not least, a cultural one, continuously weakened the state for the last twenty years. Romania will overcome the economic crisis but the key for walking out of the above-mentioned circle would be the real transformation of its core systems – political, institutional and educational.
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According to the officials of the African Union, the most important threats to the African continent are terrorism and HIV / AID . On the other hand, Country Reports on Terrorism 2009 argues that in Africa safe heavens for terrorists are Somalia and the Trans- Sahara subregion .Given these considerations, we propose in our article to grasp the relationship between nation states located in the Trans-Sahara sub-region and the insurance of its security in dealing with transnational terrorism. Are they able to combat the threat of transnational terrorism? The article presents the arguments for the necessity of reconfiguring the nation-state against the challenges posed by globalization and collective partnership in addressing transnational threats.
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This study aims at explaining the nature of various attitudes and social representations in relation to „Roma”/„Gypsies”. The objectives are: to highlight the causes of polarization of the Romanian public space when it comes to that „ethnic group” seen as a whole regardless of each member’s personal, social and cultural identity, to identify patterns of representations and stereotypes against „Roma”/„Gypsies”: This research which explores how Romania accepts its cultural diversity by investigating the representations about „Roma”/„Gypsies” is motivated by the need to identify items underlying the „Roma”/„Gypsies”’ social exclusion and social distance.
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The racial legislation marks its debut in Romania during the dictatorship of Carol II. In the beginning of August, 1940, the Law-Decree no. 2650 concerning the judicial status of Jewish inhabitants of Romania inaugurated the road towards the transformation of anti-Semitism into state politics. This Law-Decree, inspired by the racial laws of Nurenberg, ascertains three categories of Jews on which it imposes economic, social, educational and political restrictions. The classification principle is racial (the kinship level) and religious (the affiliation to the mosaic religion). The supporting letter for this law, signed by Minister of Justice Ion. V Gruia, set up the principles of a totalitarian, ethnicist and racial state.
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After two decades after the collapse of the communist state, the „social state” enjoys great popularity in our country. This article aims to present some general undesirable consequences of redistributive social policy, less evident in the current public and political debate, which seems dominated by the idea that (increasing) redistribution of revenues is always desirable.
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The inexpected collapse of the Soviet Union in december 1991 can be seen, without any doubt, as the meta-event of the second half of the 20th century. The early years of this new Era determined a lot of confusion, but in the same time, as before in 1918 and 1945, many experts and politicians looked forward to more peaceful times, hoping that with the end of the Cold War the world would become a more settled and peaceful place. Unfortunately, the bloody conflicts in the 1990s, and especially the terrorist atacks from 9/11 highlighted the limits of those initial optimistic theories, marking the beginning of a new, much more complex, dynamic, instable Post Post-Cold War Era, with a new world order in wich we are witnessing a broadening and deepening process of the insecurity in the context of the globalization phenomenon.
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If each historical age has got its own mark, democracy is the mark of the present times. Over centuries, historians will have to see in what extent democracy is a term phenomenom or it is an historic accomplishment. But until then, the proper understanding of the democracy is a necessary condition so that a democratic society should function, especially when this society is a frail one, tared by its past and with major structural problems.
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The study begins by referring to the group identity need of any human being and studies the large group identities when it comes to nation formation, ethnical references and political abuses in nation building in the post-communist era. The study refers specifically to the post-Soviet identities, the struggle of the Soviet elites in the new born independent states to maintain their privileges. In the particular case of the Republic of Moldova, there is more confusion coming from the name of the new identity, with a reference to Moldova – the former region of Romania and former Middle Age proto-state – and the ideological approach by Stalin who invented a new state in 1924, The Soviet Socialist Autonomous Republic of Moldova, and forged a „Moldavian” identity „from the ethnic family of the Slavic identities”, different from the Romanian one, to help explain the rapt and occupation of the region on the Eastern shores of the Prut river.
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Retrospectively, the study reviews the impact of Mikhail Gorbachev on the process of the breakdown of communism in East Central Europe and the end of the Cold War. It argues that Gorbachev combined the abandonment of the “Brezhnev doctrine” and the endorsement of a non-intervention policy in East European revolutions with a policy of discreet “constructive interference” for their speeding up. It also claims that a crucial element which led eventually to the end of the Cold War was the gradual Soviet-US rapprochement process, which culminated with the Malta summit in early December 1989.
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This article argues, drawing on some of the current Constitutional Economy literature, that although in theory the Socialism as such were discredited almost everywhere in the world, in public attitudes, in academia and in political practices some socialist ideas still survives in one form or another in all contemporary societies. And tries to plead for leadership and moderation, that is for realistic, fair and, therefore, sustainable public policies.
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