Catégorie : Opinions
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A mortgaged future and other ghosts haunting Romania these days
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By Cristian Pîrvulescu, National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest. This article was first published in Hotnews on the 25th of September 2025. Link to the original article in Romanian: Un viitor amanetat și alte fantome care bântuie România în aceste zile – HotNews.ro For the French philosopher Jacques Derrida, public debt and…
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Why « working better » is not enough: Romanians’ dissatisfaction in arguments
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By Cristian Pîrvulescu, National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest. This article was first published in Hotnews on the 16th of June 2025. Link to the original article in Romanian: De ce nu e suficient să „funcționeze mai bine”: nemulțumirea românilor în argumente – HotNews.ro. Political Scientist Cristian Pîrvulescu Responds to Sociologist Dumitru…
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We’re Not All Sovereigntists
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By Cristian Preda, University of Bucharest. This article was first published in the review Comunitatea liberală 1848 on the 20th of October 2025. Link to the original article in Romanian: Nu suntem toți suveraniști – Comunitatea Liberala. Vasile Dâncu believes we are. In an interview where he ruled out an alliance between his party –…
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What the early pessimists on Eastern Europe got right
By Sean Hanley, University College of London. This contribution is drawn from an article written by Sean Hanley on his webiste. Be sure to subscribe to it if you want to be informed of his future contributions and to support his work. After 1989, a few scholars warned Eastern Europe’s new democracies would rapidly fail.…
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War, Justice, Politics.
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By Antony Todorov, New Bulgarian University. We usually understand war as organized mass violence, justice as an ethical category, and politics as the “art of the possible” and a way of living together, despite our differences. Their combination is always a great test of reason and morality. The war in Ukraine has put to the…