Regionalizarea sau sfârşitul statului tutelar. Regionalizare sau Federalizare ?
The regionalization or the end of the tutelary state. Regionalization or federalization?

Author(s): Nicolaie Mănescu
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Editura Lumen, Asociatia Lumen
Keywords: regionalization; regionalism; region; decentralization; deconcentration; federalization; tutelary state; minimal state; local public administration; crisis.
Summary/Abstract: This paper aims to launch a debate on the theme of regionalization in comparison to federalization. At the same time it brings into question the concept of guardianship state and launches the hypothesis that the regionalization hastens the end of the welfare state and consolidates the position of liberal minimal state. Also, it justifies, in a few words, the inopportunity of starting the process of regionalization in Romania and presents the risks and consequences of this political approach. The federal and regional state is presented on the terms of constitutional and international law. Analyzing the process of regionalization in Western Europe, the author suggests the reader to discern between the benefits and risks of regionalization in states with low economic potential, as it is Romania. There are signaled the dangers that may occur in the absence of political control of the central power, such as self-determination and enclavisation. The conclusion drawn is that where the decentralization is becoming increasingly intense, it approaches the unitary state from the federal, the process ending with the dissolution of the former and the regionalization, pushed to the extremes, it is a sure way to federalization.

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