Sureyya YIGIT Turbulence is a frequent theme encountered in both international politics and in international economics. Politically this can mean unstable governments, economically, spiraling inflation or unsteady exchange rates. With the ending of the cold war and the onset of globalisation … [Read more...]
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Regiunea Mării Negre şi Asia Centrală. Interacţiuni geopolitice
The fall of the socialist regimes in Eastern Europe and the dissolution of the USSR, in the last decade of the twentieth century, reactivated the Black Sea Region and Central Asia on the world scene. The two regions attracted the attention of the international community as potential zones of … [Read more...]
Ortodoxia în Noua Europă
Amintind cu multă nostalgie de perioada în care Europa de astăzi se identifica pe deplin cu creştinătatea, Novalis (1772-1801) afirma cu fascinaţie: „Au fost vremuri frumoase, măreţe când Europa era o ţară creştină, când O singură creştinătate popula această parte a lumii; Un interes comun lega cele … [Read more...]
Drepturile femeilor din Uniunea Europeană
Cristina ALEXANDRESCU „Secretul pe care îl deţin Zeii şi Regii este că atât bărbaţii, cât şi femeile sunt liberi, dar nu o ştiu”, spunea Jean-Paul Sartre. Egalitatea dintre bărbat / femeie constituie un principiu fundamental al Uniunii Europene, care începând cu Tratatul de la Roma din 1957 (care … [Read more...]
Uniunea Europeană şi dreptul internaţional umanitar
Codiță DUMITRU An important place in contemporary international society efforts to avoid war, are those made in the field of international humanitarian law, to prevent and manage conflict situations specialist. The request to illustrate relationships between international humanitarian law and … [Read more...]
Regional Languages in the United Europe: to be or not to be?
Maia EGOROVA In the process of the European Union integration there rises a question of the future of the regional languages. Two parallel processes are going on in today’s European Union: on the one hand, the creation of common supranational space, directed at the homogenization of the states … [Read more...]
Gazul – instrument de politică externă al Rusiei
Dan Marcel BĂRBUȚ Harta distribuţiei globale a resurselor de gaz natural, realizată de BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2008, indică platforma continentală a Eurasiei ca fiind cea de-a doua regiune din lume bogată în gaz natural, cu o cantitate de 59,41 trilioane de metri cubi. Acelaşi raport … [Read more...]
Energy Resources at the Eastern Mediterranean Basin: a Solution for the EU’s Debt Crisis or a Point of Friction?
Dimitrios DALAKLIS The so-called “classical geopolitical theories” are still valid as explanatory tools of the Mediterranean's eastern basin role in the wider context of international relations; they can also provide the necessary framework for examining the turbulent events which take place in the … [Read more...]
European Commissions Plans Regarding CSR
Ştefania Doina VRABIE The need for corporate social responsibility (CSR) is to enhance positive impacts over the society and the environment - for example through the innovation of new products and services that are beneficial to society and enterprises themselves - and to minimise and prevent … [Read more...]
New Hopes for EURAFTA – a European Union – American Trade Agreement –
Robert Radu HERVIAN Any study or analysis that has to do with the US-European relations and furthermore any perspective seen thru a western Atlantic window, would have to contemplate first, the American internal politics and surprisingly perhaps, not the geo strategic interests of the United … [Read more...]