Nationalism, Multiculturalism and Minorities’ Rights in the 20th Century Romania. Theoretical and Methodological Aspects
Nationalism, Multiculturalism and Minorities’ Rights in the 20th Century Romania. Theoretical and Methodological Aspects

Summary/Abstract: The paper is focused on very important research topics in the field of majority-minority relationship in Modern and Contemporary Eastern Europe, dealing mainly with theoretic and methodological approaches as these was developed during the last Century in Humanities and Social Sciences. First, Nationalism and its different meanings throughout the last Century is discussed and analyzed in an attempt to pinpoint how this ideology & doctrine, cultural artefact, was and still is istrumentalized in political decision making. Second, Multiculturalism as ideology is discussed and explained in its practical consequences in the European environment, including the Romanian one. In the third place, I stress on the contorted evolution of the minority rights in the 20-th Century Romania, as is the case in Europe as a whole, dealing with the reality according which the Human Rights evolved as a new, powerful ideology in the globalization context. The paper addresses this theoretical complex in order to clarify how different ideological perspectives contributed and strongly influenced the “real”, daily life, in multiethnic societies, using the Romanian example. The paper has in my opinion a highly heuristic value and it is a contribution to the efforts made in order to accommodate the Romanian research in this field with the latest worldwide theoretical and methodological acquisitions in this domain.

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