ROMANIAN REVIEW OF POLITICAL SCIENCES AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

ROMANIAN REVIEW OF POLITICAL SCIENCES AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Vol. VIII, No.1/2011

 

CONTENTS

 

POLITICAL SCIENCES REVISITED

IONAS AURELIAN RUS, The Dynamics of Civic Culture in Ex-Habsburg Italy and Elsewhere: Testing Putnam’s Theoretical Model…………..3

JOSEF KARL, Determining Factors for Romania’s Political Development: the Specific Form of Romanian Nationalism and its Impact on Modern Romania……33                                                                              

RĂZVAN VICTOR PANTELIMON, El Mismo Modelo – Dos Revoluciones Distintas………54

POLITICAL IMAGE, THEORY AND PHILOSOPHY

LHOUSSAIN SIMOUR, Under Moroccan Gaze: Dis / (Re) Orienting Orientalism American Style in Akbib’s Tangier’s Eyes On America………………………………………………………….65

ANA BAZAC, Gramsci et Mounier sur « La Guerre de Position »…………………………81

MONIQUE SELIM, Parades éthiques et marche……………………………………………..95

IN FOCUS

VIORELLA MANOLACHE, The Dynamics of the European Model regarding Creative Localism within Offensive Modernism (During the First Half of the 20^th Century)…………………………101

HENRIETA ANIŞOARA ŞERBAN, Liberalism and “Governance”………………………115

 

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

LUCIAN JORA, EU Development Policies between Theory and Practice. The Case of Human Resources Development Structural Funds Applied in Romania……………………………………….125

DIANA CUCOS, Irregular Migrants: Contemporary Legal Aspects of their Human Rights Protection…………………………………………………………………………………….135

CATRINA- ALEXANDRA CIORNEI, The European Dimension of Simion Bărnuţiu’s Work….144

 

SCIENTIFIC LIFE………………………………………………………………………………149

BOOK REVIEWS…………………………………………………………………………………157

REVIEW OF REVIEWS………………………………………………………………………162

THE AUTHORS………………………………………………………………………………..163                                                                                                                                                                           

REVIEW ROUMAINE DE SCIENCES POLITIQUES ET RELATIONS INTERNATIONALES

No.1/ 2011

 

SOMMAIRE

SCIENCE POLITIQUE SOUS ENQUETE

IONAS AURELIAN RUS, La dynamique de la culture civique à l’Ex-Habsbourg en Italie et ailleurs: modèle théorique Putnam

JOSEF KARL, Des facteurs déterminants pour le développement politique de la Roumanie: la forme spécifique de nationalisme roumain et son impact sur la Roumanie moderne

RĂZVAN VICTOR PANTELIMON, El Mismo Modelo – Dos Revoluciones Distintas

D’IMAGE POLITIQUE DE LA THEORIE ET DE LA PHILOSOPHIE

LHOUSSAIN SIMOUR, Sous marocaine Gaze: Dis / (Re) Style Orienter l’orientalisme américain à Tanger de Akbib les yeux sur l’Amérique

ANA BAZAC, Gramsci et Mounier sur « La Guerre de Position »

MONIQUE SELIM, Parades éthiques et marche

IN FOCUS

VIORELLA MANOLACHE, La dynamique du modèle européen au niveau du localisme créative (pendant le modernism offensif dans la première moitié du 20ème siècle)

HENRIETA ANIŞOARA ŞERBAN, Le libéralisme et la “gouvernance”

 

RELATIONS INTERNATIONALES

LUCIAN JORA, L’UE et les politiques de développement entre théorie et pratique. Le cas du développement des ressources humaines des Fonds structurels en Roumanie

DIANA CUCOS, Migrants irréguliers: Aspects juridiques contemporain de la protection des droits de l’homme

CATRINA- ALEXANDRA CIORNEI, La dimension européenne de l’oeuvre  de Simion Bărnuţiu

LA VIE SCIENTIFIQUE

COMPTES RENDUS

REVUE DES REVUES

AUTEURS 

POLITICAL SCIENCES REVISITED

THE DYNAMICS OF CIVIC CULTURE IN EX-HABSBURG ITALY AND                                         

ELSEWHERE: TESTING PUTNAM’S THEORETICAL MODEL                        

                                                                                                  IONAS AURELIAN RUS

                                                                           

Abstract. This article evaluates and tests Robert D. Putnam’s theory concerning the historical origins (and, more precisely, civic traditions, the independent variable) of civic culture (the dependent variable) as well as the main alternative perspective, which is a variation of modernization theory. In the first part of the article, I presented and evaluated the competing theories proposed by Putnam and Huntington in a broad context. The second part has actually tested the various theories. This has been accomplished through the use of data dealing with Italy, and, to a much lesser extent, with Romania.

Keywords. Civic Culture, Robert Putnam, Ex-Habsburg Italy, Samuel Huntington

 

DETERMINING FACTORS FOR ROMANIA’S POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT:

THE SPECIFIC FORM OF ROMANIAN NATIONALISM AND ITS IMPACT ON MODERN ROMANIA

 

                                                                                                       JOSEF KARL

Abstract. Against the background of the bloody Civil War waged in the name of nationalism in former Yugoslavia in the 1990s, it is important to know that the history of a nation and its nationalism per se have a vital and determining influence on the manner in which democratic development takes place during the post-communist era. Even though the phenomenon of nationalism has been of great importance ever since the 19^th century, the interpretation on the nature of nationalism has been quite contradictory. There is still no convincing explanation to the question why it exerts such an effective impact on people and hence on political processes.

Keywords. Nationalism, minorities, regime, modern Romania

EL MISMO MODELO – DOS REVOLUCIONES DISTINTAS 

RĂZVAN VICTOR PANTELIMON 

 

Abstract. This paper presents the Cuban Revolution and the Sandinista Revolution – two revolutions that follow the same pattern but with some important differences. No doubt that the Cuban Revolution and the direction in which policy has been adequate have had an enormous influence over many generations.

Keywords. Cuban Revolution, revolution pattern, Sandinista Revolution    

POLITICAL IMAGE, THEORY AND PHILOSOPHY

UNDER MOROCCAN GAZE: DIS / (RE)ORIENTING ORIENTALISM AMERICAN STYLE

IN AKBIB’S TANGIER’S EYES ON AMERICA

                                                                                                                        LHOUSSAIN SIMOUR

 

Abstract. This article engages with travel literature and is mostly concerned with the image of America in Abdellatif Akbib’s travel-inspired-narrative Tangier’s Eyes on America (2001). It is devoted to examine a number of patterns of representation especially as they pertain to the notion of counter discourse and counter hegemonic modalities of resistance and subversion. It also inspects the discursive mechanisms Akbib has deployed to represent the America and highlights how western cultural prejudices and stereotypes are destabilized and how the discursively-inflected distortions of the Orientalist mindset are disturbed in his work. The choice of this text is determined by a strong desire to discover how the Other of the Orientalist ideology examines and understands the Western Self and modernity and how he/she dismantles “the Centre/Margin binarism of imperial discourse”.

Keywords. Orientalism-American style; Postcolonial theory; counter-discourse; Self and Other

GRAMSCI ET MOUNIER SUR « LA GUERRE DE POSITION »

ANA BAZAC

 

Abstract. The study has three parts. The first one presents Mounier’s personalism as confrontation with the most influential philosophy of the time – the philosophy of Marx. Capitalizing on the Marxist method, Mounier designed the personalist revolution as a “war of positions” to edify a humane capitalist society. Thus, he refused the “war of movement”. This part is followed by an addenda assessing personalism as a basic current for the very first work of modern Romanian philosophy. The second part approaches Gramscian humanism where the “war of position” is intrinsically linked with the “war of movement”. The third part, characterizes personalism, emphasizes the limits of the “personalist revolution” underlining the importance of the theme captured in the following study in order to analyze society nowadays.

Keywords: personalism, Mournier, Marxist method, Gramscian humanism

PARADES ETHIQUES ET MARCHE

MONIQUE SELIM

Abstract. This essay approaches ethics, establishing that it has recently acquired a central position, reiterating its influence in all areas: social, economic, political, national and/or international. The few examples selected from many others in the field of economic, political and biological show that ethics is built in the governance of transcendental premise of capitalism. Ethics and its interpretation in the media becomes one of the most visible ideological consequences of globalization.

Keywords. economic ethics, political ethics, biological ethics, ONG’s ethics, ethics hegemony

IN FOCUS

(“These works were supported by the strategic grant POSDRU/89/1.5/S/64162, Project “Europaeus program postdoctoral”, cofinanced by the European Social Found within the Sectorial Operational Program Human Resources Development 2007 – 2013”)

THE DYNAMICS OF THE EUROPEAN MODEL REGARDING CREATIVE LOCALISM WITHIN OFFENSIVE MODERNISM (DURING THE FIRST HALF OF THE 20^th CENTURY)

                                                                                                VIORELLA MANOLACHE

Abstract. Approaching the antagonism of Mitteleuropa’s models in its provincial – marginal aspect, we will prove its capacity to engage itself into a political-historical and side effect reaction, undertaken as traditionalisms, encompassing a so-called external / offensive modernism, characteristic of the 30s and of the 20^th century protochronism.Avoiding the obstructions of the provincial complexes (since it is common knowledge that the ’40s have brought an obvious national stagnation within traditional late models in all sorts of outdated and primitive formulas), this study aims at drafting a summary of attempts to (re)settle the strong perspective (communitarian) and decentralization, marginal and fragmentary (societal), a bifurcation marked by both modern divisions and the moderate reaction of ethnic traditionalism. The creative localism was and remains a term which is fuelled imagistically, geopolitically, materially and spiritually by some specific (national and local) brands, involved into a dynamic European model – one which is difficult to synchronize, even at a mimetic level – of a certain type of European synthesis and transparent saeculum. The local culture reactivates a laboratorium europaeus within the frame of Romanian modernity, understood as a process dominated by clash between the traditional and bourgeoisie sets of values, a process fuelled by the collision between a new tradition and its relics.

Keywords. Offensive Modernity / Modernism, Synchronization, Europeanization, Creative Localism

LIBERALISM AND “GOVERNANCE”

                HENRIETA ANIŞOARA ŞERBAN

Abstract. The paper inscribes into the perspective of the history of ideas the correlation among freedom as the power of voluntary choice, liberalism, liberal government and governance. From this perspective, the argument captures the present day relevance of these considerations in relation to the interest for the notion of “governance”. Thus, a liberal polity is legitimated through the limitations of the liberal government, imposed by the very individual freedom that it recognizes. Within this context, freedom can be accomplished and actualized through the active participation of the citizens.

Keywords: freedom, power of voluntary choice, creation, liberalism, liberal government, governance

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

 

EU DEVELOPMENT POLICIES BETWEEN THEORY AND PRACTICE.

THE CASE OF HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT STRUCTURAL FUNDS APPLIED IN ROMANIA

LUCIAN JORA

 

Abstract. The EU has attempt a goal of “reducing economic and social disparities.” Like Singapore, the EU saw it important to develop human resources because the EU is moving towards knowledge based economy. This paper is an attempted to explain the framework of EU Assistance for Development projects in Central and Eastern Europe, and the variances between how aid is intended to be disbursed and the difficulties it faced during implementation, mirroring the difference between the drafted theory and the real practice. Most of the considerations are the result of author’s direct personal experience as a Project Evaluator for the Romanian government.

Key words. EU Assistance for Development projects, drafted theory, real practice, Romanian government.

 

 

IRREGULAR MIGRANTS: CONTEMPORARY LEGAL ASPECTS OF THEIR HUMAN RIGHTS PROTECTION

 

                                                                    DIANA CUCOS

Abstract. This article elaborates on contemporary aspects of human rights protection of irregular migrants, focusing on universal and regional human rights instruments in general and on the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families in particular, with the view to contributing to a better understanding of contemporary problems and challenges that face migrants vis-à-vis their human rights protection.Migrants represent a particularly vulnerable segment of the population and too many of them endure human rights violations, discrimination and exploitation. The situation is even more acute for irregular migrants who are “invisible” on the international human rights agenda. Their “invisibility” means that very often they are not able to report such abuses. Unlike refugees who enjoy the protection of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, no single international organization has a similar mandate to address human rights violations of migrants.

Keywords: migration, irregular migrants, Human Rights, Human Rights instruments, the Migrant Worker`s Convention, principle of non discrimination.

THE EUROPEAN DIMENSION OF SIMION BĂRNUŢIU’S WORK

CATRINA- ALEXANDRA CIORNEI

 

Abstract: Simion Bărnuţiu is considered the first professor to lecture in the Romanian  language academical courses on philosophical topics. The book is a veritable philosophical periplus, belonging to a road-opener. Simion Bărnuţiu chooses  the influences, proving himself permeable to models but not enslaved to them.

Keywords: Philosophy, Enlightenment, lecture, modernity, Ethics

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