ROMANIAN REVIEW OF POLITICAL SCIENCES AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS/ABSTRACTS NO.1,2 2008

ABSTRACTS

No1/2008

 

POLITICAL CULTURE, ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE

 

 

COMPORTAMENTO ASSOCIATIVO IN UN CAMPIONE DI DONNE DI CONDIZIONE ECONOMICA PRECARIA

 

                                                                                                            MARTA GIL LACRUZ

 

Abstract. Surprisingly, studying welfare one can infer interesting aspects concerning participation and the associative behavior. Participation via democratization could be considered as an important Welfare State achievement. It is a way to reach citizen equality. But, on the other hand, the associative behavior frequently depends on economic and social factors (for example: social class and sex). In this research, we interviewed 3700 Spanish family units in precarious economic conditions. Results reveal that low class women are the inferior average group as regards knowledge, collaboration and act in the associations. This situation reflects a significant difference in the social public and private services access and in the process of integration into the community.

 

 

AU DELÀ DES MÉTHODES DE RECHERCHE SUR LA CULTURE POLITIQUE EN ROUMANIE

 

LORENA PĂVĂLAN STUPARU

 

Abstract. This article is a methodological approaches to political culture within the frame of the analysis entitled „Characteristics of political culture in Romania”, a recent research project completed for the Institute of Political Sciences and International Relations of the Romanian Academy. The author suggests a hypothesis on the political culture of inadequacy perceived as a “ mix”  political culture: a mélange of a political culture of the violence and a political culture of the tolerance, and, a political culture of the obedience (to historical and political imperatives) associated with a political culture of the opportunism, a “ minor”  culture, marked by major personalities.

 

 

THEORETICAL ASPECTS

REGARDING THE ROMANIAN INSTITUTIONAL CRISIS

 

                                                                                    VIORELLA MANOLACHE

                                                                                    HENRIETA ŞERBAN

 

Abstract. Our hypothesis launches the idea according to which the Romanian political institutions are engaged in certain transformation processes placed under the sign of the retro-institutionalization, as a characteristic of transition, phenomenon which, on the one hand, implies the general opposition to the institutionalization and, on the other hand, the pressure towards institutionalization. The diagnosis of this transitional syndrome provides evidence as to the obstructive regulative bureaucracy aggravated by legislative hesitations. Furthermore, such hesitations are accompanied by lack of any control mechanisms towards sustaining a correct institutional functioning.

 

 

 

POLITICAL CULTURE: FORMS OF MANIFESTATION

 

 

PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE DURING THE COMMUNIST PERIOD.

ION D. SÎRBU, “LETTERS TO GRACIOUS GOD”

 

ANTONIO PATRAŞ

 

Abstract. Ion D. Sîrbu’s letters strike the reader’s eyes, as the sender is prone to drawing up balances, perhaps a sheer consequence of the “obsolete” feelings, turned into a real “backwardness” complex, when the comparison with generation fellows is in question. In their main features, Sîrbu’s letters breathe a tolerant attitude towards the addressees, even though among their opinions there is complete remoteness. The writer is convinced that “an authentic dialogue can be established anytime between divergent spirits” if they share the same ethical ideal. Originating from a left-ist family who nurtured him, by means of education, with the socialist ideals, Sîrbu was a left-wing intellectual who strongly disagreed with any kind of tyranny, either from the left or from the right side of the political spectrum.

 

 

KULTURPOLITIK UND ZENSUR ALS BEGLEITER DES LITERARISCHEN PHÄNOMENS IN RUMÄNIEN (1957 -1990)

DIE REZEPTION DEUTSCHSPRACHIGER LITERATUR IN DER ZEITSCHRIFT SECOLUL XX

                                                                                                            Maria Sass

Abstract.This study refers to a particular aspect of a literary phenomenon in Romania, namely the reception of foreign, especially German, literature during the period of communist dictatorship, through exemplification on the basis of the periodical “Secolul XX”, which is well-known both in Romania and abroad. The study relies on the research of the journal between 1957 and 1990 whereas the issues published between 1957 and 1960 were considered “specimen issues”. Neither the culture policy of the totalitarian period, nor the communist censorship period could be eluded, since they have not only influenced the reception of literature, but they have also played a decisive role in determining which authors and works were to be “imported” and presented. The censorship contributed to the installation of the “self-censorship” under the impact of fear as well for the writers who were publishing in the journal as for the translators and reviewers of literary works. Such phenomena led to the “mutilation” of many literary works, namely by cutting out passages which didn’t correspond to the socialist realism or which were considered to be “harmful” to the ideology of the multilateral developed society.

 

 

NEW ELITES:

THE ANTICULTURE OF THE ROMANIAN POLITICS

 

 

                                                                                                VIORELLA MANOLACHE

 

Abstract. The idea according to which communism, as a social-political ideology, manifested itself in the under-developed countries, in its Leninist-Bolshevist version (of socialist revolution), paradoxically, as the “weakest link of the chain”, becomes today more and more difficult to accept. As compared to the Western model, communism signified a type of accelerated development (with forced, quickened steps) and of modernization through the “dissolution of the intermediate steps” (which implied also a challenge to the social order itself and to the genesis of the social reality). Nowadays, the Romanian political “development”, seen as the parting of the ways against modernity, corresponds to a sort of ecumenism, which is rather a vague development, opened both to the Western values and to the present-day experiences.

 

 

 

CULTURE AND IDEOLOGY

 

 

 

L’EPOCA NEOLIBERALE: RIVOLUZIONE PASSIVA O CONTRORIFORMA?

 

CARLOS NELSON COUTINHO

 

Abstract. Today neoliberalism is in crisis and the neoliberal “unique way of thinking” is rejected with increasing facility. The cult of bourgeois democracy as a universal value, however, is still hegemonic, even among left-wingers. Reformist, but consistent, this study aims to resuscitate the Gramscian theory establishing an up-to-date, relevant and recuperating point of view.

 

THE POLITICAL SYSTEM AND CULTURE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION

                                   

 

                                                                                                            IRINA STOICA

 

Abstract. The political culture of the European Union attempts to make a complete picture out of the main wheels which turn the European “machine” – the EU government, its politics and its policies. A condition for the existence of a political system is that the outputs of the political system – the collective decisions of the institutional setting – have a real impact on the distribution of economic resources and allocation of social and political values in a society. That is the reason why the policies created the by-product of European institutions’ activities (executive, legislative and judicial) are important for analyzing the state of the European Union and questioning its political future.

 

 

 

IN FOCUS

 

L’HERMÉNEUTIQUE  DE   LA CONFIANCE  ET  L’HERMÉNEUTIQUE  DE  LA  SUSPICION

LORENA PĂVĂLAN STUPARU

 

Abstract .This paper (“The Hermeneutics of Trust and Distrust”) consists of a series of reflections regarding some possible heuristic results of the comparative approach relating Ricoeur’s hermeneutic orientation and Eliade’s hermeneutic and creative method of analyzing religious symbols. As the symbol, the text becomes accessible through a hermeneutical interpretation. Yet, hermeneutics as a rigorous approach, does not exclude the creative experience. Eliade both inherited and advocated the tradition of hermeneutics, advancing a hermeneutics applied to an object which is formed using other signs these included in a written text – the formula for a  “ hermeneutics of trust”: the trust in the existence of a meaning, even when this questionable. On the other hand, the “hermeneutics of distrust” (Paul Ricoeur) is either destructive or « creative » in a different order of meaning.

 

 

ABSTRACTS

ROMANIAN REVIEW OF POLITICAL SCIENCES…

No.2/2008

 

THE PARLIAMENT AND THE EXECUTIVE WITHIN THE FUNCTIONAL ASSEMBLY OF THE POLITICAL SYSTEM

ARISTIDE CIOABĂ

 

Abstract. The study analyzes the role and the scope of the tremendous effort of institutional reconstruction within the Romanian transition to democracy, with a special attention given to the Parliament and the Executive. The relationships among these two crucial democratic institutions are examined, within the Romanian constitutional frame. The place and the role of the Parliament and government within the democratic system in a process of consolidation are evaluated, an endeavor confronted with the complex transition from the old totalitarian regime to a democracy of liberal structure.

 

 

 

GENESIS OF THE PLURALIST PARTY SYSTEM AND THE DEMOCRATIZATION PROCESSES

 

CONSTANTIN NICA

 

Abstract. The study investigates the explanatory aspects concerning the genesis, evolution and characteristics of party pluralism in Romania after 1989. Starting from the collapse of the unique party system, the author analyzes the particularities of political pluralism in transition as well in the Central and Eastern Europe as in Romania. Thus, the rebirth of democracy in Romania is seen in close relationship with the reactivation of the pluralist party system within a transition towards the “open society”.

 

 

THE REFORM OF THE ROMANIAN ELECTORAL SYSTEM

 

 

BOGDAN POPESCU, CRISTIAN-ALEXANDRU LEAHU

 

 

Whether the electoral system will succed to produce a real reform of political class, whether it will make the act of gouverning efficient in Romania, are rather questions that only the electoral practice of several electoral cycles will provide an answer. In this respect, maybe it should be mentioned that countries with democratic tradition like Italy, for example, did not succeed so far to find a stable „solution” of an electoral system.

 

QUELQUES PARTICULARITES DE L’EVOLUTION DE LA CLASSE DIRIGEANTE EN ROUMANIE

LORENA PĂVĂLAN STUPARU

 

The study advanced a historical view of the Romanian rulling class. It is concentrated, first of all, on the main theoretical and political structures, on relations between them and the values that inspire and legitimate them. The rhythm, the duration and the content of the historical changes  as well as the political system degree of functionality and consolidation are the „barometers” which suggests answers regarding the situation of the Romanian political system, proposing another theoretical direction…

 

 

 

POST COMMUNIST RECOVERIES IN EASTERN EUROPE-

TYPICAL AND ATYPICAL FORMS OF POLITICAL ELITE

 

 

 

                                                                                             VIORELLA MANOLACHE

 

 

Abstract. The post-communist examples viewed as a typical Eastern-European form of getting out of communism, can be added to the idea of global transition to democracy, by emphasizing the technical solutions proposed for the economical, social and political difficulties occurred. The theory of the political capitalism launches a hypothesis according to which the communist anti elite has become the new economical bourgeoisie of the post communist society. The corpus of the post communist power is not a new class, nor an old one; it is formed of the ones who seek to accomplish a project of power. The intelligence, as a seemingly central piece of a post communist political puzzle has failed along with the techno bureaucratize, in her consolidation as a class which possesses and administrates the political capital.

 

 

GRAMSCI E I SUD DEL MONDO: TRA ORIENTE E OCCIDENTE

 

 

CARLOS NELSON COUTINHO

 

 

 

 

Abstract. Concepts like passive revolution, historic bloc, north and south, Orient vs. Occident are the pretext for this study to extend gramscian theory according it to the new concepts as peripheral Occident, rethinking, in fact,  the idea of democracy. The study proposes to develop new idea for moving beyond the limits of the consecrated theories about Antonio Gramsci.

 

 

 

THE POSTMODERN DIAGNOSIS OF A GENERATION:

GENERATION’80

 

                                                           

                                                                                    GHEORGHE MANOLACHE

 

 

Abstract. The historiographical metafiction of the ’80s generation adopts the post-modern ideology of plurality and of accepting the difference. “The 80s generation textualism” was a “new ingredient”, a magma in which there were boiling at the same time “Wittgenstein’s tractatus logico-philosophicus”, the practise and the philosophy of the Tel-Quel, and also the personal achievements of theoretical linguistics and of semiology. The (provisory) conclusion is that Romanian postmodernism is (up to the end of 1989) mainly a cultural project in which the fiction writers, acting “fair play”, lure us (with their texts) to be their accomplices in the “obscure relation” between writing and reality!

 

 

 

THE ASIA-EUROPE MEETING (ASEM) PROCESS IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF INTERREGIONALISM

 

 

 

ZHU GUICHANG

 

 

Abstract. The Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) was established in 1996 with the aim of strengthening political dialogue, economic cooperation, and social and cultural exchanges between Asia and Europe. Given its interregional nature, ASEM has been regarded as a kind of interregionalism or even “new interregionalism” and therefore has been studied from the theoretical perspective of interregionalism. Following this suit, this paper will explain and examine ASEM in the theoretical framework of interregionalism. This paper will not discuss the theoretical issues of interregionalism in detail but will draw some insights of interregionalism to make an assessment of the ASEM process.

 

ESSENCE DES SANCTION INTERNATIONALES

 

 

NARDJES FLICI

 

 

Abstract. Under the aegis of the UN and in the name of the international law, the states have the right, through the bodies of the UN in order to avoid all infringements, to inflict international sanctions against the states which do not abide by the laws of the international law and constitute a danger for the international peace, stability and security, but such practices are most frequently used by the most powerful states to impose their own rules and to protect their interests. Constituting a border between the diplomatic practices and the beginning of the hostilities, the international sanctions became a weapon of pressure, intimidation and punishment; while in fact these practices have been always present in the relationships among the states, yet, in different degrees, given that this phrase, “international sanctions”, had different evolving meanings in time that created a consensus ruling and formalizing the different forms of the international sanctions and their field of action. Within the UN, the UN Security Council is the guardian of the international peace and security, responsible for inflicting and applying international sanctions, with the possibility for the General Assembly or the International Court of Justice to intervene in precise but unforeseen cases.

 

 

CULTURAL DIPLOMACY AS SECURITY POLICY

 

 

L. JORA

 

Cultural diplomacy is a matter of mutual knowlege and communication, which is meant to create community of trust and understanding. It ,obviously, contributes to predictability, an important asset in international relations, particularly in the security area. However, the mutual knowledge of each other culture, does not, per se, create trust.

 

 

 

LA REFORMA POLÍTICA EN AMÉRICA LATINA EN LOS AÑOS 90

ESTUDIO DE CASO SOBRE URUGUAY Y BOLIVIA

 

RAZVAN PANTELIMON

 

 

               Abstract. The economic, social, cultural and political changes confirm that Latin America is experiencing the manifestation of region-wide perspectives. This article reviews by looking at the emergence of new political trends Latin American integration. Dealing with the combination of local and foreign efforts to influence government policy that may have the most impact on the design of new Latin American political standards, the article focuses on Uruguay and Bolivia as a political Cross-Country Review.
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ROMANIAN REVIEW OF POLITICAL SCIENCES…CONTENTS 1, 2/2008

POLITICAL CULTURE, ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE

CONTENTS

NO.1/2008

 

 

 

 

POLITICAL CULTURE, ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE

 

Marta Gil Lacruz, Comportamento associativo in un campione di donne di condizione economica precaria…………………………………………………………………………………………………….1

 

Lorena Păvălan Stuparu, Au delà des méthodes de recherche sur la culture politique en Roumanie………………………………………………………………………………………14

 

Viorella Manolache, Henrieta  Şerban, Theoretical Aspects Regarding the Romanian Institutional Crisis……………………………………………………………………………………………20

 

 

 

POLITICAL CULTURE: FORMS OF MANIFESTATION

 

Antonio Patraş, Private Correspondence during the Communist Period. Ion D. Sîrbu, “Letters to Gracious God”…………………………………………………………………………………..29

 

Maria Sass,  Kulturpolitik und Zensur als Begleiter des literarischen Phänomens in Rumänien (1957 -1990). Die Rezeption deutschsprachiger Literatur in der Zeitschrift Secolul XX…………40

 

Viorella Manolache, New Elites: The Anticulture of the Romanian Politics………………….…48

 

 

CULTURE AND IDEOLOGY

 

Carlos Nelson Coutinho, L’epoca neoliberale: rivoluzione passiva o controriforma?………….54

 

Irina Stoica, The Political System and Culture of the European Union………………………….66

 

 

IN FOCUS

 

Lorena Păvălan Stuparu, L’herméneutique  de   la confiance  et  l’herméneutique  de  la  suspicion…………………………………………………………………………………………83

 

 

SCIENTIFIC LIFE………………………………………………………………………………95

 

BOOK REVIEWS………………………………………………………………………………104

 

THE REVIEW OF REVIEWS………………………………………………………………….123

 

AUTHORS……………………………………………………….……………………………..125

 

                                                                                                           

 

 CULTURE POLITIQUE,  CULTURE ORGANISATIONNELLE

SOMMAIRE

 

 

 CULTURE POLITIQUE, CULTURE ORGANISATIONNELLE

 

Marta Gil Lacruz, Le comportement associatif dans un échantillon de femmes de condition économique précaire…………………………………………………….……………………….1

 

Lorena Păvălan Stuparu, Au delà des méthodes de recherche sur la culture politique en Roumanie…………………………………………………………..…………………………….14

 

Viorella Manolache, Henrieta  Şerban, Aspects théoriques concernant la crise institutionnelle roumaine…………………………………………………………………….……………………20

 

 

LA CULTURE POLITIQUE: FORMES DE  MANIFESTATION

 

Antonio Patraş, Correspondance privée pendant la période communiste. Ion D. Sîrbu, “Lettres à Bon Dieu”……………………………………………………………………………..………..29

 

Maria Sass,  Culture politique et censure comme forme des phénomènes littéraires en Roumanie (1957 -1990). La réception de la littérature écrite en allemand dans  Secolul XX………….…40

 

Viorella Manolache, Les  nouvelles élites: l’anticulture de la politique roumaine……………..48

 

CULTURE ET IDÉOLOGIE

 

Carlos Nelson Coutinho, L’époque néolibérale: révolution passive ou contre-réforme ?…………54

 

Irina Stoica, Le système et la  culture politiques de l’Union Européenne ………………………66

 

 

EN ATTENTION

 

Lorena Păvălan Stuparu, L’herméneutique  de   la confiance  et  l’herméneutique  de  la  suspicion………………………………………………………………………………………..83

 

LA VIE SCIENTIFIQUE………………………………………………………………………95

 

COMPTES RENDUS………………………………………………………………………….104

 

REVUE DES REVUES………………………………………………………………………..123

 

AUTEURS……………………………………………………………………………………..125

 

 

 

ROMANIAN REVIEW OF POLITICAL SCIENCES AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

CONTENTS 2/ 2008

 

THE ROMANIAN POLITICAL SYSTEM

 Aristide Cioabă, THE PARLIAMENT AND THE EXECUTIVE WITHIN THE FUNCTIONAL ASSEMBLY OF THE POLITICAL SYSTEM

 Constantin Nica, GENESIS OF THE PLURALIST PARTY SYSTEM AND THE DEMOCRATIZATION PROCESSES

 Bogdan Popescu, Cristian-Alexandru Leahu, THE REFORM OF THE ROMANIAN ELECTORAL SYSTEM

 Lorena Păvălan Stuparu, QUELQUES PARTICULARITES DE L’EVOLUTION DE LA CLASSE DIRIGEANTE EN ROUMANIE

 Viorella Manolache, POST COMMUNIST RECOVERIES IN EASTERN EUROPE-TYPICAL AND ATYPICAL FORMS OF POLITICAL ELITE

 

 

 POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

Carlos Nelson Cutihno, GRAMSCI E I SUD DEL MONDO: TRA ORIENTE E OCCIDENTE

 Gheorghe Manolache, THE POSTMODERN DIAGNOSIS OF A GENERATION: GENERATION’80

 

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Zhu Guichang, THE ASIA-EUROPE MEETING (ASEM) PROCESS IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF INTERREGIONALISM

 Nardjes Flici, ESSENCE DES SANCTION INTERNATIONALES

 L. Jora, CULTURAL DIPLOMACY AS SECURITY POLICY

 R. Pantelimon, LA REFORMA POLÍTICA EN AMÉRICA LATINA EN LOS AÑOS 90. ESTUDIO DE CASO SOBRE URUGUAY Y BOLIVIA

  SCIENTIFC LIFE

 BOOK REVIEWS

 REVIEW OF REVIEWS

ABSTRACTS/ROMANIAN REVIEW OF POLITICAL SCIENCES AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS NO. 2/2007

ROMANIAN REVIEW OF POLITICAL SCIENCES AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

NO. 2/2007

ABSTRACTS

 

 

 

GLOBALISM AND CULTURAL IDENTITY

 

JAMAL EDDINE BENHAYOUN

 

 

 

Abstract. This new context of globalism and internationalism has made the question of space more pressing today than ever before. Identity is no longer the privileged and most appropriate site for posing the question of culture. Throughout history, the world has been mapped and remapped ad infinitum. Obviously, these “worlds” complicate our perceptions of the world and remind us of the cultural, imaginative, and ideological foundations upon which are based all the descriptions that claim to be at a relational position with the world.

 

 

THE ROMANIAN DIPLOMACY DOWN ON ITS KNEES

 

 

DANIELA IONESCU

 

 

 

Abstract. After 1990 Romania behaved on the international arena in a way, which in my opinion is unique among its fellow European countries. This behavior has much to do with its self-perception. The scope of this paper is to single out this strange mentality and to evaluate its consequences on the national interests. In order to exemplify this assumption I chose        to focus on some aspects of the Romania-EU relationship: the Accession Agreements; the Association Treaty (with a focus due to its importance on the Common Agricultural Policy); on some aspects during the negotiations for the Justice and Home Affairs chapter and on the affair of the Romanian Commissioner.

 

 

 

THE DECISION POWER

WITHIN THE EUROPEAN UNION INSTITUTIONS

 

LUCIAN JORA

 

Abstract. Relatively little data are known about the exact division of power of the European Commission in legislative affairs apart from case studies. This paper presents analyses of qualitative and quantitative data to estimate how powerful some experts consider the Commission to be and to see how influential it actually is.

 

 

 

LA DÉMOCRATIE ET LES DÉFIS

DU MONDE CONTEMPORAIN

 

ADELA DELIU

 

 

 

Abstract. The study proposes an analysis of the perspectives of development and consolidation of democracy, within the context of quick transformations marking contemporary world. It concerns especially the recent challanges, underlining the fact that democracy should adapt and redefine itself continuously in order to overcome its own limits.

 

 

AXEL HONNETH: HINWEISE AUF DIE KRITIK DER MACHT

 

VIORELLA MANOLACHE

 

 

 

Abstract. The hypothesis on which Axel Honneth’s study, Kritik der Macht. Reflexionsstufen einer kritischen Gesellschaftstheorie, is built restricts to the fact that one should make public a series of invariants of political and sociological aspects identified with the concept of power. Following the route of anthropological philosophy, Axel Honneth’s study focuses on social-political and moral philosophy, especially on the relationships dominated by power, recognition, and respect. Beginning with Adorno or Horkheimer and ending with Habermas or Foucault’s theories, for Honneth, the unfolding of social and moral political perspectives requires to be de-centered in conformity with the de-centering of the world understanding. In such analytical context, Honneth’s critical adaptation of these philosophical and social perspectives is the basis of a dynamical critical social theory, which attempts to remedy the deficits of previous critical and theoretical approaches.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

IN MEMORIAM RICHARD RORTY (1931–2007)

 

 

 

 

PRAGMATISM AND IRONISM

AS THE RORTIAN CONTRIBUTION

TO THE PROBLEMATIC OF POLITICAL POWER

 

HENRIETA SERBAN

 

 

 

Abstract. The author approaches the Rortian problematic of political power. It is an attempt to recapture it in a correlation with the perspectives Rorty opened on ironism and pragmatism, describing a particular type of pluralism. At the same time, his vision represents, a soft vision of political power, interpreted so that it emphasizes the importance that Rorty gives to the ironist individual and to solidarity within the contemporary democratic society. Also, the author underlines that the Rortian vision of political power is a postmodern development on the power of the individual, seen in a Foucaultian perspective.

 

 

 

THE CONCEPT OF “HEGEMONY”

WITHIN CONTEMPORARY DEBATES

 

GHEORGHE LENCAN STOICA

 

 

 

Abstract. The study approaches the present debates concerning the concept of hegemony as well as the search of the appropriate definition for the present connotation of hegemony. Within the contemporary political thought  two understandings of the concept are emphasized: hegemony as dictatorship, force or coercion and hegemony as democracy. The former is followed with theoreticians as Dahl, Chomsky, Negri and Hardt, etc., and the latter — introduced by Antonio Gramsci — at Cornel West, Ralph Miliband, Robert Cox, Edward Said, etc.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

POWER AND SENTIMENTS

INTRODUCTION TO A RESEARCH

ABOUT THE POWER OF NOSTALGIA

 

ANA BAZAC

 

 

 

Abstract. The paper starts by dotting the place of  sentiments in Aristotle, Descartes and Machiavelli, three great representatives of the Western thinking. In the pre-modern era, the practical philosophy was rather normative than functionalist, so the rational characteristics of the political management was more important than the discussion about the means of the social influence, thus the control of sentiments. In the second part are shown the changes made by the French post-structuralism in the conception of power. The third part reviews the birth of a modern feeling, nostalgia, as well as its involvement in the process of political change.

 

 

 

 

CATEGORIES OF THE LEGITIMATE POWER (I)

 

GABRIELA TÃNÃSESCU

 

 

 

Abstract. This paper aims to specify some meritorious renewals in the approach to the legitimacy and legitimating power. As such, it comprises the situation of the legitimacy in the present research of the political power, in comparison with its place within the chief modern contributions to the conceptual founding of the theme. It involves the present analytical categories of legitimacy in the way they appear in the last decades in some referential sociological and political works.

 

 

IL CONCETTO DI POLITICA NEI

QUADERNI DEL CARCERE

 

 

CARLOS NELSON COUTINHO

 

 

 

Abstract. Concepts like globalization and historic bloc, north and south, Orient vs. Occident, have been consistently distorted. In order to rediscover Antonio Gramsci, this study extend the discussion about the state, rethinking the idea of democracy. In the case of the theory of democracy, Gramsci was able to articulate his insights by engaging not only with the work of Marx and Lenin but also with the nonliberal contributions of Rousseau and Hegel, developing new ideas to move beyond the limits and aporias of their work.

 

 

 

POWER INTEREST GROUPS AND POLICY-MAKING

IN THE EUROPEAN UNION — THE CASE OF BIOTECHNOLOGY

AND PHARMACEUTICAL BUSINESS INTEREST ASSOCIATIONS

 

IRINA STOICA

 

 

 

Abstract. The extent to which interest intermediation has triggered off the process of European integration still divides theorists; what is even more uncertain is the extension of their influences in day to day European policy and decision making. The matter under concern here is the extent to which interest intermediation generates new styles of politics and policy-making or builds up new patterns of interaction between civil society and supranational organizations. How much do business interests matter to the process of integration and how do they relate to other type of interests currently acting in the EU arena, particularly to public interests? Is their impact upon integration only confined to areas of ‘low’, sectoral politics? I have chosen to treat here two apparently similar policies, biotechnology and pharmaceuticals, but utterly different in what regards their outcomes, resources and modes of action. Are these two types of interests already granted a certain privilege when coming to influence legal drafting and decision making procedures in the EU? If so, why? Which are their preferred channels when exerting influence at the EU level? I mainly use the concepts of risk, uncertainty, lack of direct causal link as explanatory variables used in biotechnology policy formulation (i.e., present in the early phases of biotech policy-making) and concepts such as policy networks, transaction costs, embeddedness, high membership densities or collective action problems to help explaining patterns of public and private interest articulation.

ABSTRACTS/ROMANIAN REVIEW OF POLITICAL SCIENCES…NO.1-2007

 

ABSTRACTS

 ROMANIAN REVIEW OF POLITICAL SCIENCES…

NO.1-2007

 

Das Demokratische Forum der Deutschen (DFDR)

als Vertretung der deutschen Minderheit

im postkommunistischen Rumänien 1989–2004

 

Josef Karl

 

 

 

Abstract. The study explores the Romanian political scene after 1989. He investigates the role of the Democratic Front of the German People in Romania (F.D.G.R./DFDR) and the inter-party relations within the democratic Romania. The historical approach is complemented by political interpretations.

 

 

Ortega y Gasset and the Idea of Nation

Cristi Pantelimon

 

 

 

Abstract. There are two fundamental aspects to be considered for the understanding of this notion, that is, the essence of a nation: first, the general principle of organizing the nation or the formal principle of its existence (the Idea) and second, the subordinate character of the fate of the individuals in relationship with this Idea. The nation is not positively defined by a series of specific characteristics, it is not about the common language, or about the common past or other conclusive qualities as such, but it is about a Form that determines the individuals composing it to belong to it, entertaining at the same time a conscience of belonging.

 

 

The Imagining of National Spaces

in Interwar Romania.

The Emergence of Geopolitics

Călin Cotoi

 

 

Abstract. The author concentrates mainlyon the interwar period since I believe that during this period a certain paradigm shift took place, or, in any case, an important mutation in the cultural mechanisms of national identity reproduction. Between the two world wars, the scientific discourses on the topic of the nation-state and national space(s) became more important, providing a complementary, or even, sometimes, alternative, way of spelling the nature of the nation (taken as a “natural” thing) compared to the historiographic ways of interpreting the nation.

 

 

 

 

 

KANT ET RAWLS: REMARQUES SUR L’EVOLUTION

DES THÉORIES IDÉALES CONCERNANT

LES RELATIONS INTERNATIONALES

Ana BAZAC

 

 

 

Abstract. The aim of the paper is to counter-pose Kant’s and Rawls’ ideal theories concerning the international relations, just because the later expressed and insisted on the Kantian origin of his neo-liberal view on the present world history. FREEDOM AS

 

 

 

 

 

PROJECTION OF REASON IN SPINOZA

Gabriela Tãnãsescu

 

 

Abstract. The paradoxical concept of the free necessity, central in Spinoza`s theory of freedom, is sketched by spinozian ontological argument and by the implications of his theory of rational knowledge. The paper focuses on the individuality of Spinoza`s radical rationalist paradigm and on his agument of holist inspiration.

 

 

 

 

“Nature” and “Reason” in Leviathan

Henrieta Anisoara Şerban

 

Abstract. The thoughts of man are representations of objects, qualities, or events that are in a continuous movement, factors of incertitude and anxiety.For Hobbes, the man is a rational, but not reasonable creature of nature and we speak of man’s reason in relation to a universe of the individual, one marked both by passions and reason.

 

 

MACHIAVELLI ON GROWTH AS AN END

William J. Connell

Abstract. In Machiavelli’s view it was a mistake for a republic to subject its neighbors and become a limited territorial state. Far from a prophet of the unitary territorial state, our examination of Machiavelli’s ideas on empire, the treatment of subject tertitories, and the problem of civic discord reveals him as what he in fact claimed to be at the outset of the Discourses: a writer who sought in the history of Rome’s growth a new and “untrodden” path for solving and moving beyond the problems of what today we call his historical “context.”

 

 

 

 

 

THE MINORITIES OF ESTONIA AND THEIR STATUS

Yves PLASSERAUD

 

Abstract.  The Republic of Estonia is frequently mentioned critically in the Western press with reference to its treatment of non-citizens. At the same time, specialized publications praise Tallinn for its excellent and generous law on minorities.  What can be the origin of such an apparent contradiction? To understand the situation, let us first of all to examine the minority communities of Estonia.

 

 

 

Historical knowledge of Europe and the European dimension

Lucian Jora

 

Abstract The idea of a Europe  is basically untraceable, not because it does not exist or is indefinable but because it exists in a form that makes it hard to pin down on account of a large number of contradictions that prevent our finding a logic on which to base a definition. That is also why the best way of approaching Europe is not to try to find out about some dispiritingly complex object, but to identify the values that allow us to keep under constant review all the attempts to come to terms with it. Europe is primarily perceived in terms of its diversity, and to live that diversity it quickly became indispensable to identify similarities, as when detailed comparisons of education and training systems reveal identical or very similar concerns despite greatly contrasting administrative and teaching arrangements.

 

 

 

A FORM OF RE-ACTIVATING THE POLITICAL FREEDOM — MASS-MEDIA

(Theoretical aspects of a Postmodern Simulacrum)

 

Viorella Manolache

 

Abstract. For more than fifteen years since we (re)conquered the freedom of expression, a reality of a different kind established itself within the Romanian space: a system of indexes, emblems, constituents of a typical language which asks for solving out, first and foremost politically speaking,  the terms of the polis. These terms are clear of haphazard dross, conjugated and anchored in a background level, where we refine ourselves as carriers and victims of discourse.

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CONTENTS

 

 

            ROMANIAN POLITICS

 

JOSEF KARL, Das Demokratische Forum der Deutschen (DFDR) als Vertretung       der deutschen Minderheit im postkommunistischen Rumänien 1989–2004

 

            THE EUROPE OF NATIONS

 

CRISTI PANTELIMON, Ortega y Gasset and the Idea of Nation       

CÃLIN COTOI, The Imagining of National Spaces in Interwar Romania.                                 The Emergence of Geopolitics      

 

            THE HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT

 

ANA BAZAC, Kant et Rawls: remarques sur l’évolution des théories idéales                                        concernant les relations internationales

GABRIELA TÃNÃSESCU, Freedom as Projection of Reason in Spinoza       

HENRIETA ANISOARA SERBAN, “Nature” and “Reason” in the Leviathan 

WILLIAM J. CONNELL, Machiavelli on Growth as an End   

 

            INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

 

YVES PLASSERAUD, The Minorities of Estonia and Their Status      

LUCIAN JORA, Historical Knowledge of Europe and the European Dimension

 

            IN FOCUS

 

VIORELLA MANOLACHE, A Form of Re-activating the Political Freedom                                       — Mass-media (Theoretical Aspects of a Postmodern Simulacrum)

 

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SOMMAIRE

 

 

POLITIQUE ROUMAINE

 

JOSEF KARL, Das Demokratische Forum der Deutschen (DFDR) als Vertretung                                            der deutschen Minderheit im postkommunistischen Rumanien 1989–2004   

 

L’EUROPE DES NATIONS

 

CRISTI PANTELIMON, Ortega y Gasset et l’idée de nation  

CÃLIN COTOI, Imaginer les espaces nationaux à l’époque de l’entre-deux-guerres                             en Roumanie. L’émergence de la Géopolitique

 

HISTOIRE DE LA PENSÉE POLITIQUE

 

ANA BAZAC, Kant et Rawles: remarques sur l’evolution des theories ideals                            concernant les relations internationals    

HENRIETA ANISOARA SERBAN, “Nature” et “Raison” dans le Léviathan  

GABRIELA TÃNÃSESCU, La liberté en tant que projection de la raison chez                                     Spinoza           

WILLIAM J. CONNELL, Machiavel — de la croissance en tant que fin          

 

RELATIONS INTERNATIONALES

 

YVES PLASSERAUD, Les minorités de l’Estonie et leur statut           

LUCIAN JORA, Connaissance historique de l’Europe 

 

IN FOCUS

 

VIORELLA MANOLACHE, Une manière de re-activer la liberté politique                                          — les mass media (Aspects théoriques du Simulacre Postmoderne)          

 

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ON POWER

 

CONTENTS

 

 

            SOFT POWER

 

Jamal Eddine Benhayoun, Globalism and Cultural Identity         

Daniela Ionescu, The Romanian Diplomacy       Down on Its Knees

Lucian Jora, The Decision Power within the European Union Institutions

Adela Deliu, La démocratie et les défis du monde contemporain           

 

GRASSROOTS POWER

Viorella Manolache, Axel Honneth: Hinweise auf die Kritik der Macht

Henrieta Anisoara Serban, Pragmatism and Ironism as the Rortian                                 Contribution to the Problematic of Political Power

 

 

POLITICAL POWER

 

Gheorghe Lencan Stoica, The Concept of “Hegemony” within                           Contemporary Debates

Ana Bazac, Power and Sentiments. Introduction to a Research about the                       Power of Nostalgia      

Gabriela Tãnãsescu, Categories of the Legitimate Power (I)      

CARLOS NELSON COUTINHO, Il concetto di politica nei Quaderni del  carcere     

 

 

POWER INFLUENCE, POWER ACTION

 

Irina Stoica, Power Interest Groups and Policy-making in the European                         Union — The Case of Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Business Interest                  Associations    

 

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DU POUVOIR SOFT

 

Jamal Eddine Benhayoun, Mondialisation et indentité culturelle  

Daniela Ionescu, La diplomatie roumaine en défaite      

Lucian Jora, The Decision Power within the European Union Institutions           

Adela Deliu, La démocratie et les défis du monde contemporain           

 

LE POUVOIR DES GRASSROOTS

Viorella Manolache, Axel Honneth: une référence à la critique du           pouvoir

Henrieta Anisoara Serban, “Pragmatisme” et “ironisme” comme                                                 contributions rortyennes à la problématique du pouvoir politique       

 

DU POUVOIR POLITIQUE

Gheorghe Lencan Stoica, Le concept d’«hégémonie» dans les débats                                       contemporains 

Ana Bazac, Pouvoir et sentiments. Introduction à une recherche sur le pouvoir              de la nostalgie  

Gabriela Tanasescu, Les catégories du pouvoir légitime (I)        

Carlos Nelson Coutinho, Il concetto di politica nei Quaderni del  carcere          

 

L’INFLUENCE DU POUVOIR, L’ACTION DU POUVOIR

Irina Stoica, La puissance des groupes d’intérêts et l’élaboration des politiques                                       au sein de l’Union Européenne — le cas du biotechnologie et d’associations                                  d’intérêts dans affaires pharmaceutiques            

 

VIE ACADÉMIQUE  

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            POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

 

PATRICIO BRICKLE, Heidegger and Zubiri: A New Foundation for Politology

ERIC GILDER, the  Unique Role of “Constructive Alternativism” in the Creation               of Philosophical Knowledge

ADELA DELIU, International Relations and the Present Ethics of Power

ANDRÉ TOSEL, The Globalization as Philosophical Object

           

            POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY

 

HENRIETA ANIªOARA ªERBAN, The Educated Women in the Public Eye

RODICA IAMANDI, The “Cult of Personality”      

 

            INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND EUROPEAN STUDIES

 

DANIELA IONESCU, Romania and the Common Agricultural Policy

ZHU GUICHANG, A Comparasion of the European Model and the Policy                   ASEAN Way: Is there a third way of regionalism for the East Asian                         cooperation?   

LUCIAN JORA, The History and the Policy of Reconciliation

ANA BAZAC,  The Russian Energy and Europe. Perspectives

STANISLAV SECRIERU, Russia’s Foreign Policy under Putin: “The CIS Project”           Renewed

 

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SOMMAIRE

 

            PHILOSOPHIE POLITIQUE

 

PATRICIO BRICKLE, Heidegger et Zubiri: une nouvelle institution pour la                      politologie

ERIC GILDER, l’“Alternativisme Constructif” dans la création de la conaissance                philosophique

ADELA DELIU, Les relations internationales et l’éthique actuelle du pouvoir

ANDRÉ TOSEL, La mondialisation comme object philosophique?

 

            SOCIOLOGIE POLITIQUE

 

HENRIETA ANIªOARA ªERBAN, Les femmes bien élevé dans la perception                 publique

RODICA IAMANDI, “Le cult de la personalité” dans la Roumanie

 

            RELATIONS INTERNATIONALES ET ÉTUDES EUROPÉEN

 

DANIELA IONESCU, La Roumanie et la Politique Agricole Commune

ZHU GUICHANG, Une comparasion du modèle européen et du voie ASEAN.

LUCIAN JORA, L’histoire et la politique de la reconciliation

ANA BAZAC, L’energie (russe), l’Europe et les perspectives

STANISLAV SECRIERU, La politique étrangère du Russie sous Putin:

            le “projet CIS”

 

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            MASS MEDIA AND DEMOCRACY 

 

NICO CARPENTIER, Introduction

NICOLAE PERPELEA, Loose Social Sentiments: “Struggles” for a Moral                                                                     Recognition in Political Talk Shows

LORENA PÃVÃLAN, Events, Journalism, Epiphanies

HENRIETA ªERBAN, Noise versus Dialogue. Investigating the Representation                            Dimension in the Context of the Romanian Media in December 1989 and                               January 1990

ANA BAZAC, Ownership and Values. The Limits of the Democratic Media.                     An Analysis of the Main Romanian Written Media

 

            IN FOCUS

 

HENRIETA ªERBAN, “Reading All About It”. Front Page. Celebrating 100 Years           of the British Newspaper 1906–2006

 

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            MÉDIA ET DÉMOCRATIE 

 

NICO CARPENTIER, Introduction

NICOLAE PERPELEA, Légers sentiments sociaux: «batailles» pour la                               reconnaissance morale dans les talk-shows politiques

LORENA PÃVÃLAN, Evénements, journalisme, épiphanies

HENRIETA ªERBAN, Bruit versus dialogue. Investigations sur la dimension de                            la répresentation dans le contexte des médias roumains en décembre 1989 et                           janvier 1990

ANA BAZAC, Possession et valeurs. Limitations de la presse démocratique. Une               analyse des principaux journaux roumains

           

            en attention

 

HENRIETA ªERBAN, «Lire tout sur ça». La une. 100 ans de presse britanique.                1906–2006

 

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