This work is an approach to a problem that can be debated ad infinitum and to achieve multiple and diverse results and conclusions. It is not the first attempt to review the security of Moldova and NATO enlargement that is the subject of research. We focused this research and the terms, concepts...

This book represents a brave attempt to approach a problem of great complexity of current international political scene – the Arab-Israeli conflict in the Middle East. The book’s central objective is to detect the views outlined in the Romanian public opinion in the first decade of...

The present survey aims at an analysis of the Romanian state relations with Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) conducted during 1948-2000. The study deals with the origin of the relations, developments and areas where cooperation between Romania and the Romanian-Israeli and...

The literature of Romania is lacking works covering such a topic. Reference works in the field are treated in general either matters regarding Romania’s EU structures, or only sequential and deepen research covering a specific theme. That is why the work proposed by Madalina Ivan, the...

Since he become president, Vladimir Putin had two important points on his policy agenda, which he has tried to fully maximize. Firstly, he intented to pursue a foreign economic policy and secondly to preserve Russia s economic interests, aiming therefore to achieve WTO membership. Moreover,...

Globalization is a fashionable topic, omnipresent in the media discourse, in the literature, but also in everyday conversations. The opinions expressed on this set of processes that marks every aspect of our lives are often antagonistic, and therefore, for a better understanding of...

The ultimate aim of this work is finding answers to some of the following questions: How is NATO seen today, and which is its role provided by analysts for the future? Viability of the Common Foreign and Security Policy of the EU: will CFSP be strong enough to keep pace with NATO and eventually...

In speeches on international relations, we were used to use more cliches: when we talk about the international system we use, even after the Cold War, the terms of unipolar, bipolar, multipolarity. Is it just a habit or a reality? However, the Cold War ended, and the cliches have remained in the...

The present study aims, in particular, the developments in the historical period after the Second World War. However, the paper considers to expose the main theories, explanations and current and emerging ideas developed in this period in American literature and in the European economic area,...

The topic approached in this book was inspired by a course on Central European Politics in the fall semester of the academic year 2005- 2006, attended at Central European University, Budapest. In this respect I am grateful to Karen Henderson, the course instructor, for being the first to...