Politics: Moldova’s Elections as Tug-of-War
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Russia and the EU are working to help voters make up their minds as they head to the polls this weekend.
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This is the full text of a public lecture, which the foreign minister of the Republic of Bulgaria made on 17 December 2014 in New Bulgarian University in front of students from the Law Department and Political Sciences Department.
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Communiquer, c’est une Arte. L’Arte de vivre dans une société. L’Arte d’agir et de réussir dans un cadre organise, y compris dans un milieu de type organisationnel militaire. Cette Arte fait partie, en même temps, de la structure et du dynamisme des systèmes dynamiques et complexes et, dans une organisation, devient son système nerveux, son système sanguin et, surtout, son système cognitif. Nous nous proposons de relever le rôle de la communication dans le processus d’éviter des blocages spécifiques pour les systèmes organisationnels de type mécanicistes et dans la transformation de ceux-ci en systèmes dynamique et complexes, capables de s’adapter aux évolutions compliques, quelques fois loin de l’équilibre, et de générer des évolutions performantes dans le management organisationnel.
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The paper attempts a Marxist (historical materialist) critique of decolonial theory. Given the specificity of the latter, this critique differs significantly from the already classic Marxist critique of postcolonialism: while Marxism shares with the latter the historical-materialist approach, and the controversy is situated rather at the level of the relevant unit of analysis (universalism vs. particularism), the point of divergence between Marxism and decolonialism is already at the paradigmatic level, as an opposition between historical materialism and subjective idealism. This constitutive idealism will be spelt out and criticized in three of its defining traits and strategic moves: a) its idealist understanding of the “colonial condition”; b) its idealist understanding of the history of colonialism; c) its idealist and voluntarist vision of the political solution. While the paper is mostly a textual analysis of some of the relevant authors of decolonialism (Mignolo, Dussel, Quijano), it is also ‘contextually’ driven, asking why is it that such an inconsistent set of theories had such success and relative hegemony on the independent scene of the postcommunist Romanian left?
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The author of this study attempt to conduct an analysis of the current state of affairs of intelligence studies in Romania, with a special focus on intelligence education and training. The case studies address the issues of education, training and scientific research activities conducted in the field of intelligence within the „Mihai Viteazul” National Intelligence Academy and the National Institute for Intelligence Studies, and the steps that the SRI has undertaken thus far for the development of the educational process and of the analytical outreach. Moreover, the paper suggests some future steps that are intended to lead to the introduction of the word intelligence in the Romanian lexicon and an increase in the attention given by Romanian scholars and experts to the discipline of intelligence studies.
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Opera lui Dimitrie Cantemir este considerată ca fiind una ce face autoritatea în era confluenţei intercivilizaţiilor, în care valorile sunt mai tari ca timpul și mai vaste ca nemărginirea, generând, după trei secole, un ecou reverberant și actual. Datorită unicității operei sale, personalitatea cărturarului impresionează ca un simbol reprezentativ pentru umanitatea întreagă prin formația sa enciclopedică.
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In our existence there are scientific events which aim at establishing some landmarks in the conscience and spirituality of our people. They give us strength, continuity and sustainability as a nation on the ancient Dacian land. Remembering the past is important for those who want to know how to build their future. One of the landmarks of the late medieval history and early modern one is the personality of Dimitrie Cantemir, a Moldavian ruler who became a cultural symbol of the Romanian people.
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China and international law are not neither perfect, nor perfect foes. International has always been present in China's sphere of preoccupations! China has found means of co-interesting with international legislation, but, has always done so, her way. Currently, China's deferential approach towards the institutions and authorities of international law is an affair taht requires fixing. Within these parameters, the most important aspect, from our point of view, is the fixing-factor. Throughout this article, we will try to outline the distinctive features of the Chinese approach upon international legislation, commencing with the factual explanations of the last centuries and coming across the territorial disputes, within which China is a disputing party, offering by specification, connotative examples.
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Certainties and uncertainties are not always in a happy balance. Not even then, when it's just a reflection. Uncertainties worry, certainties often kill. War and world warriors are somewhere between them. It is certain there is war, it is uncertain that he will ever disappear. For us, the Romanians, the most dangerous of all the wars that separated us and completed us is and will always be the Romanian-Romanian War ...
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Analiza problematicii foarte complexe a optimizării structurilor, specifice managementului organizaţiilor reprezintă o premisă a cercetării interferențelor şi interdependeţelor dintre sisteme şi metasisteme. Este un management special, care oferă o plajă foarte largă de cercetare, cunoaştere, evaluare, prognozare şi perfecţionare.
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La logique de l’intégration est complexe et conflictuelle. Au fil de l’histoire, on a élaboré beaucoup de modèles d’analyse et d’explication ou de comprendre les lois de l’évolution et de constitution des Nation, des Etats ou des alliances et des coalitions. L’intégration est une construction dynamique qui sollicite des projets et surtout des modèles.
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This paper is focused on motives and strategies of migration of the Muslims population to the Czech Republic and how they evaluate their life in the Czech territory. The article is based on study and analysis of information resources and field research and significantly on a qualitative research using the biographical method searching for the reasons of migration, host country position and assessment of the life of Muslims living in the Czech Republic being identified together with the factors determining the process of their integration.
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The problem of creating a sustainable national identity has been one of the major conflict sources, which Iraq has suffered from its early days onwards. This study examines the rationalistic roots of Iraq’s identity problem, and how King Faisal’s era (1921–1933), which encompassed the British mandate period, both contributed to this problem and tried to evade it. The aim of this study is to gain a basic understanding of Iraq’s identity problem, which has been set in motion under King Faisal I, whose legacy is yet to be solved regarding the Iraqi peoples’ feeling of belonging. Starting off with the problematique of a national identity framework in Iraq’s case, this study elaborates on problems of defining the Iraqi identity, and sheds light on the major sources of which it is fed off; pan-Arab nationalism, tribalism, religion and language. The central argument of this study is that identity is a major indicator for power politics including other aspects of society.
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The book deals with the ideas of Europe. Europe was on one hand the center of many crisis and wars, on the other hand a center of common cultural developments – from Christendom and Enlightement up to music, poetry and arts. The text goes back into history and shows that the visions of a common Europe did not only arise after World War II, but were already present in the Middle Ages. The theories of the ancient state-philosophers and other scholars show surprising similarities with the basic problems of the EU of nowadays. Theses visions were always combined with the deep desire and many appeals for a lasting peace in Europe – in former centuries an utopia, realized only in the second half of the 20th century.
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This publication is an attempt to describe the phenomenon of propaganda in the media of the Web 2.0 era. The text proves that in the space of new media, characterized by interactivity and free exchange of roles between broadcasters and receivers, propaganda is widely used in political communication. The author analyzed Internet films by both political parties and ordinary users of new media. In the work he described the basic rules, characteristic for propaganda on the Internet. The publication includes the classification of films and the analysis of examples of election spots, political videos, documents and film pseudocuments from the point of view of propaganda. This work has been based on a descriptive and analytical model. The author analyzed content available on multimedia platforms (Youtube) and in online social media (Facebook).
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Objective: Since 1990, Poland has become one of the most decentralised states in Europe. Local governments nowcontrol a third of all public expenditures. They have also delivered the goods, modernising the country’s infrastructure and restructuring its schools. This article attempts to explain why local government reform was so successful in Poland, and what it tells us about “decentralisation” elsewhere. Research Design & Methods: Historical research, practitioner experience, comparative analysis. Findings: The success of Polish local government reform was not due to “bottom up” accountability arising from either civic engagement or local taxation. Instead, “decentralisation” was largely a technocratic revolution from above. But accountability was created through an array of mezzo level institutions that trained and professionalised newly elected local elites, while also embedding them in the regulatory structure of the state and forcing them to monitor themselves. Implications / Recommendations: “Decentralisation” is less dependent on “getting the rules right” or mobilising popular engagement than it is on creating institutions that encourage public officials to learn from, and monitor, each other. Contribution: Reappraisal of what needs to be done to make “decentralisation” work. History of local government reform in Poland.
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Under consideration in the present article is the legal regulation concerning the holding of national referendums under the implementation of the fourth so far in force Bulgarian Constitution, respective legislation and the practice related thereto. Under particular analysis are provisions of the currently in force Direct Citizen Participation in State and Local Government Act and some of the issues, stemming from both the relevant Act and the Constitution are also pointed out. The author justifies the possibility for a constitutional referendum as well as for a citizens’ legislative initiative to be held by formulating proposals for the respective legislative and constitutional amendments to be made.
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The Free University of Political and Economic Sciences was established in 1920 as a private higher education institution meeting the requirements of the Law on National Enlightenment. The idea is maturing in an intellectual circle of State University professors dissatisfied with the policy of the state university. In 1924, the Law of Recognition as a Legal Person of the Free University for Political and Economic Sciences (Balkan Middle Eastern Institute) was adopted in Sofia. The first director (rector) of the Free University is Prof. S. Bobchev. The Middle East and the Balkans are traditional trade zones for Bulgarian manufacturers and traders. This is why the founders of the university consider it necessary to prepare future consuls, sales agents and other specialists for the Balkans, Asia Minor and the Middle East, while studying one Western and one Balkan language during their studies. Despite the high quality of education, innovative teaching methods and academic achievements of lecturers, the Free University is transformed and closed.
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