Regionalism And Regional Autonomy In Romania

Author(s): Andrea Carteny / Language(s): English Issue: 05/2013

Szeklerland (in Hungarian Székelyföld) is a historical region of Transylvania, a Hungarian province given to Romania by the Versailles peace treaties after the First World War. With a population consisting of an overwhelming proportion (80 percent) of Szeklers (Székelys), it constitutes an ethnic enclave within the territory of Romania. The Szeklers are a separate ethnic group amongst the Hungarians; they arrived at the same time as the Magyars (or perhaps even a little earlier) in the Carpathian basin and settled in the centre of Transylvania.

O lovitură dată politicii de securitate colectivă din perioada interbelică: demiterea lui Nicolae Titulescu. Reflectarea acesteia în presa românească

Author(s): Marius Hriscu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 4/2009

On 29 August 1936, under the pretext of a so-called "governmental restructuration", Nicolae Titulescu was dismissed as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Romania. The dismissal of Nicolae Titulescu had three fundamental causes: the collective security policy he promoted, which was not topical any longer due to the shift in the balance of forces in Europe; the wish of King Charles the 2nd to enforce his regimen of personal authority; a link appreciated as being "too tight" between Romania and the Soviet Union. The event echoed in the Romanian and foreign press of the time.The dismissal of Titulescu represented the dawn of a stage in international relations, which relied on the collective security system and international law. The period that followed witnessed aggressive actions of the revisionist states and the conciliatory efforts of Western powers, the acme being the outburst of the Second World War.

Ipostaze ale liberalismului politic rawlsian

Author(s): Bogdan Constantin Mihailescu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 4/2009

Political Liberalism doesn't offer just a simple particularization of the rawlsian justice theory, which has been announced in Theory of Justice, but, in the same time, an approach of liberalism through a new strategy, and also a research of a completely different subject. Nevertheless, in a remarkable way, Rawls succeeds in distancing himself from traditional political philosophy, without embracing the post-Enlightenment contextualist political theory.

Evaluarea – acţiune pe parcurs sau etapă finală a ciclului politicilor publice?

Author(s): Dorina Ţicu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 4/2009

Public policies have to be assessed and have to be submitted to an evaluation process. But what determines a project of public policy to be considered a success, or the criteria that make it be considered successful, or when one may appreciate that a public policy ended and had the desired results, what criteria should be considered when we speak of evaluation, or when these criteria have to be applied, under what form, all these are questions that start from the evaluation matter.To determine the evaluation role, at the basis of the analytical process one should consider the definitions given to the evaluation, the roles it plays, its functions, to be able to determine a certain typology, all of them having the role to define the discursive universe and to determine the concept dimensions. On the other hand, the evaluation may appear as a stage taking place along the cycle of the public policies or may be considered as final the stage in the cycle of the public policies. What is the optimum necessary for a public policy or when one has to talk about the evaluation process and when it has to be applied, all these dimensions get into the rhetoric and practice of the public policies, as processes clearly planned by the institutions which propose to answer some inputs arrived at the level of the social, economic, cultural, political global environment.

Mesaje pe calea undelor. Elemente de hermeneutică in discursurile regelui Mihai catre români (1948-1989)

Author(s): Alexandru Muraru / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 4/2009

After having left the throne, which almost coincided with the beginning of the Cold War, the only way to communicate with King Michael, under the circumstances of the media embargo, was that of the messages uttered on the FM broadcast band radios. BBC, Radio Free Europe and America’s Voice almost consistently broadcasted, generally at the end of each year, the words of the Romanian sovereign. The discourses approached multiple issues: among the first preoccupations that delimited the King’s speeches, we shall focus on the repudiation of the illegal, "null and void" action, on the two main directions of the messages between 1948-1989, that is the internal situation and the its relation to the international system, as well as on the references to the situation of the Romanian exile. The royal messages interpret and transmit statements on the situation in Europe, mentioning the anticommunist Revolution in Hungary (1956), the Soviet intervention in Czechoslovakia (1968), the 1968 movements, as well as the agitations at the end of the ‘80s. What we discover, in the present writing, in most of King Michael’s appeals, is the fluency of the political discourse, the continuity, the preservation of the same main features. Even if the language suffered important modifications, natural ones, as other political values were focused on, the spirit of truth and justice remained the same. Michael, as a political character, who preserved his attributes sanctioned by the 1923 Constitution, preferring to parenthesise this communist half a century than the Fundamental Law, did not revise his stand. His thought, mainly delimited on two fundamental concepts – that of truth and that of continuity – demonstrates a form of intelligence of the olden times, when the aim was honour and virtue and not success at any price.

Ideological Populism and Attitude-Populism on Romanian Political Scene

Author(s): Anca Loghin / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2009

Populism is a recurrent and chameleonic phenomenon that adapts to all political regimes. Because of these issues, at a conceptual level, it is difficult to define its exact and accurate meaning. Although the literature has dealt with this concept over time syncopated and often wrong, populism is a complex field, which constantly develops new and different forms that embody the spirit of the time.The definition of populism alters between ideology, current or rhetorical tool. Thus, in the first part of the present article we’ve tried to discover the diverse and complex facets of populism, at a conceptual level, presenting the main perspectives of the analysts and the main forms of the phenomenon. Subsequently we’ve individualized populism in Central and Eastern Europe and Romania, identifing two forms of populism existing on the romanian post-comunist political scene, such as: ideology-populism, located at the extreme right of the political scene and represented successfully by Romania Mare Party and its leader Corneliu Vadim Tudor and attitude-populism used (from 2000) by the Liberal Democratic Party’s leader Traian Basescu.

Multiculturalism, diferenţă, recunoaştere. Cum să interpretăm valoarea diferenţelor culturale?

Author(s): Ovidiu Gherasim-Proca / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 4/2009

Globalization is often accompanied by parallel processes with opposite direction. When national borders become irrelevant, when multiple identities and various ways of life are brought together in large multicultural communities, the tendency to focus on local experiences and to adopt particularistic cultural perspectives as a leading point of view may seem entirely natural. The multiculturalism and “the politics of recognition” are meant to provide a political theory of civic solidarity for this kind of social contexts. Our paper examines in a critical manner the issue of equal recognition of the cultural values - as stated by Giovanni Sartori in one of his polemical writings - which is, in our view, a key point of the justification of the politics of recognition. Following a broad anthropological standpoint, we argue that the cultural difference has an authentic intrinsic value, and that the contemporary western culture is fully compatible with a tolerant, non-ethnocentric understanding of cultural values, which may foster (if consolidated by widely available, enlightened public education) the mutual respect, the acceptance and the enjoyment of culturally diverse ways of life.

New Media and the Consolidation of European Union’s Institutional Image

Author(s): Corina Barbaros,Mioara Nedelcu / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2009

Taking into account the distinction between democratic deficit and the information deficit and the dilemma of existence or non-existence of an European public sphere, our study analyses the conclusions that followed the European debates regarding the advantages of an integrated and permanently approach in institutional communication. Its aim is to demonstrate the fundamental role of institutional communication within the actions for determining the success of European reforms and the sequel of the political integration process. We emphasized the fact that the information lack and the communication deficiencies (essential causes for the European citizens lack of commitment) impose the rise of the efficiency efforts towards the European institutions communication strategy, which involves, nowadays, the New Media.

Romanian Post-Communist Migration. Issues Regarding Immigrants Integration

Author(s): Elena Simona Vrânceanu,Mioara Nedelcu / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2009

Our study undertakes to analyze the particularities of the emigrational phenomenon from Romania after 1989, how Romanians relate to each other from cultural and identity stands, the difficulties of integration into the host-countries against the background of the immigrated-minorities protection policies of the European Union. To conclude, I showed that the receiving countries (which are not socially homogenous) do not apply the same forms of social insertion, but their general objective (in compliance with the principles of coexistence in the community space) is the deletion of legal, cultural, linguistic etc. impairments to emigrants’ self-assertion, prejudice fading-away and discrimination eradication.

De la fructul pasiunii la mărul discordiei. Politica de mediu a Uniunii Europene

Author(s): Diana Mărgărit / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 4/2009

One of the most controversial policies of the European Union is, most likely, the one concerning the environment. The struggle to improve or, at least, to attenuate the harm that human practices produce in nature, is at the theoretical level, a consensus. Nevertheless, implementing such a policy gives birth to an endless dispute between the voices representing the industrial activities and the nongovernmental organizations. This article focuses on the way the environmental policies evolved over time and the manner in which an agreement between all the involved actors, both at the European and at the international levels can be reached.

Avatarurile politice ale recunoaşterii

Author(s): Anton Carpinschi / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 4/2009

The aim of our study is to single out a possible way to the culture of recognition in a world strained by deep social cleavages and a strong conflict between values. The study attempts to answer the desideratum of the recognition culture by developing a model of the political founded on the correlation of certain aspects of the human and of the political. Globalization, multiculturalism, the recrudescence of identity movements, as well as other current social and political, economic, cultural, religious processes ask for comprehensive analyses able to generate reasonable suggestions and realistic solutions. There is a need for research capable of nuanced interpretations, proper adaptation and feasible recom¬mendations regarding the dynamics between identity and alterity, unity and diversity, inovation and tradition etc., within the scope of deliberative and participatory democracy and of the recognition culture.

Politički stil i politički temperament

Author(s): Tatjana Lazić / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 1/2009

The author offers an analysis of political style and political temperament in the context of a specific individual behavior, collective system of beliefs or model of group behavior, by bringing them in connection with the representatives of political elites and political parties. The author attempts to find a link between personal characteristics and skills and ways of manifestation and fulfillment of specific political interests.

Majske igre svetla i tame

Author(s): Nebojša Popov / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 406-411/2007

Article about political situation in Serbia.

Konstituisanje Vlade između zločina i očekivanja kazne

Author(s): Lidija Jovetić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 406-411/2007

Article about political events in Serbia between two issues of Republic.

Sudar suprotnih vrednosti

Author(s): Dušan Mojsin / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 406-411/2007

Nismo ruska provincija

Author(s): Milan Prodanović / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 406-411/2007

Moguć odgovor birača - porast izborne apstinencije

Author(s): Zlatoje Martinov / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 406-411/2007

Article about election abstention in Serbia.

Mogućnost zajedništva Srba i Albanaca

Author(s): Ivan Ahel / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 406-411/2007

Article about the status of Kosovo.

Politički motiv jasan ali nekažnjen

Author(s): Ljubomir Jačić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 406-411/2007

Položaj mladih u Srbiji

Author(s): Tanja B. Lončar / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 406-411/2007

Article about position of young people in Serbia.