Japonia – imaginea vie a viitorului în industria de telecomunicații?

Ţara Soarelui Răsare este privită de către mulţi analişti drept un incubator tehnologic în care intră foarte multe idei noi, dar din care ies doar cele ce prezintă garanţia succesului. Cu toate acestea utilitatea analizei pieţei japoneze în perspectiva găsirii viitoarelor afaceri profitabile nu este atât de clară precum ar putea părea la prima vedere. [...]

De trei ori dreapta

Revenirea extremismului în politica europeană Istoria se repetă. Iată o maximă ce pare perimată, la limita dintre truism şi proverb, oricum neimportantă. Dar chiar şi aşa, constanţa îngrijoratoare, aproape mecanică cu care această biată zicală devine realitate, face uitarea ei aproape de neînţeles. Căci dacă istoria se repetă înseamnă că noi, dincolo de statut social, [...]

Three turns to the right: the resurgence of extremism in European politics

History repeats itself. Here is a maxim which seems outdated, on the borderline between truism and proverb; it is now for many unimportant. But the worrying, almost mechanical constancy with which this poor beleaguered saying becomes reality makes forgetting it almost unthinkable. For the undeniable fact that history repeats itself can only mean we human [...]

A brief account of ideology

The development of ideology Ideology can be understood either as a total, or a particular phenomenon. The former describes the total sum of a person’s understanding of the world, while the latter refers to some part of a person’s set of ideas which may, anachronistically and pejoratively, lead to the label of ideologue in the [...]

Political science and the polity: an outline of civil action in Romania

Some initial inquiries Anyone with an intimate knowledge of political science should realize that there is something amiss with the field. Unlike the study of the law, the study of medicine, or even the study of the natural sciences, the study of political science tends to produce decent intellectuals but poor practitioners. While studying the [...]

The political student’s guidebook to attractions in the Middle East

Abstract There is scarcely a region on the planet which presents itself as being more interesting than the Middle East. Since the early nascent pains of Arabism towards the end of the 19th century, all the way to the present, this patch of land has had more than its share of social dynamism, political upheaval, [...]

The parliamentary solution: a discussion on the ails of Romanian political society

Introduction It is unlikely that those choosing to study the political sciences have never dreamed of being the architects of the perfect state. On the contrary, it is quite probable that the idea of rebuilding Plato’s Callipoils[1] in the image of their own soul presents itself so irresistibly that pursuing a career in political science [...]

Two principles of constitutionalism: the separation of powers and judicial review within The Federalist Papers

On constitutionalism Constitutionalism is a term which, at least for the political neophyte, can cause all sorts of conundrums. This is the case because in defining it one must work with other terms which have degraded in meaning to the point at which their semantic range covers all sorts of entities or concepts, some of [...]

Democracy from the barricades: a look at H.-R. Patapievici’s understanding of the concept of democracy

Abstract Horia-Roman Patapievieci, one of Romania’s leading contemporary intellectual figures has had an interesting relationship with the state and its structures. Beginning as a staunch critic of the old regime and the continuity it had with the new, continuing with harsh critiques of Romanian society at large which were aimed at its apathy and gullibility, [...]

Dilemmas in European Security – the EU after 9.11

The events of 9.11 brought significant changes to the way in which the Western world understands and defends its security. Although the most obvious and perhaps radical of these changes came about in the USA, the country worst hit by what took place during that fateful autumn day, Europe felt the aftershocks of those traumatic [...]