O INTRODUCERE. Ex Occidente Lux!
An Introduction. Ex Occidente Lux!

Summary/Abstract: This is an exploratory and provisional Introduction to the Fundamental Research Project Encyclopedia of the Contemporary State conducted by our Institute in 2021-2022. The main object of study of this Project are the essential attributes of the state – precisely, of the Romanian state and of the other contemporary states, current members of the European Union (chronological: from 1989 to the present) –, established in their Constitutions, in the founding Treaties of the EU and in the international Treaties to which they are a part. Of course, these time and space limits are not constraining. For the purposes of argumentation, some thematic Chapters of the Project will inevitably refer to the attributes of the former communist states in Central and Eastern Europe, of the candidate and associated states of the EU (e.g., Moldova), but also of other contemporary states such as USA, China, Russia etc. Along with its intrinsic academic and cognitive objectives, the Project also pursues institutional, pragmatic objectives, namely that, upon its completion, each of its co-authors can provide a good expertise in (at least) one of the major thematic areas they have dealt with preponderantly.

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