From the Politics of Science to the Science of Politics: the Difficult Make Up of the Romanian Political Science
From the Politics of Science to the Science of Politics: the Difficult Make Up of the Romanian Political Science

Summary/Abstract: For the social sciences at large, the rise and predicament of Romanian political science, as important an experience as it may be for Romanian academia, is a topic sentenced to a certain degree of obscurity. Romanian scholars may seek, on an individual basis, respectability and recognition in the international scientific com­munity, but none would expect them to set collectively the tone for political science. And it is only fair to say that marginality is perhaps the inescapable fate of all political science enterprises in Central and Eastern Europe. For American, British, German, French, and even Italian political sciences are not only dominant, but also self-reliant and self-sufficient. Therefore, it would be more interesting to look at what Romanian political science is, rather than at what it does, or tries to do. That is to say that Romanian political science could be noteworthy only to the extent it is comprehended as a political object in its own right, regardless of the political objects it currently creates, addresses, and queries.

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