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This study accentuates the importance of the contemporary jewelry in the promotion of the national Bessarabanian identity. Romanian jewelry and adornments can include traditional elements, materials and techniques for the purpose of creating a unique masterpiece, which reflect Romanian culture. The ways through which contemporary jewerly can help promote Romanian national and traditional identity include inspiring traditional motifs, exploring cultural symbols, education and awareness, collaborating with local designers, and promoting sustainability. This study highlights the vital role of contemporary jewelry in preserving and transmitting Romanian Cultural Values in Bessarabia to future generations and in creating deep connections between artists, designers and the local community. It also highlights the importance of national identity in the development of contemporary jewelry, which can contribute to the promotion of Romanian traditions and crafts in the contemporary global context.

The purpose of the work is to determine the peculiarities of body identification practices in social networks based on the national experience. The research methodology is based on the application of axiological, comparative analysis, hermeneutic interpretation, and structural and functional methods. The stated methodological instruments allow identifying the influence of consumption culture on the nature and specifics of representation of identification practices in social networks. The scientific novelty lies in theoretical analysis, firstly, of the morphosis of body identification practices in social networks, secondly, of the body deviations in the context of contraposition Me/Other, and thirdly, of up-to-date trends of body practices construction based on acceptance of the own body not depending on any characteristics, peculiarities, beauty canons propagated by the pop culture. Conclusions. The dynamics of changes in body identification practices in social networks are related to the globalization processes, constant acceleration of the "pop culture pulse", commercialization of values, and society's escape to a virtual world. The body broadcasting on social networks is influenced by the culture of consumption, stereotypes, images, and standards popularized by the mass media. The alternative way of body identification practices is the refusal from the body canons propagated by the pop culture and focus on the inner world of the personality.
Key words: social media, body identification practices, images, stereotypes, the culture of consumption.

This article aims to tackle some of the challenges posed to the Europeanization research agenda and to examine the usefulness of the Europeanization approach to the study of national foreign policy (selecting Romania as a test case). It proposes a research design that lays emphasis on pinpointing and mitigating the 'misfit' between EU and national levels, and on the role of the 'political vulnerability' stemming from the EU conditionality imposed on candidate countries and from different perceptions of threat. The two case studies chosen refer to EU-Romanian disagreements over the International Criminal Court's jurisdiction and Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence. Keywords: Europeanization, Romanian foreign policy, political vulnerability, International Criminal Court, Kosovo. (Romanian Journal of European Affairs / SWP)

FIVE YEARS AFTER THE "DECEMBER BREAKTHROUGH," ROMANIA STILL STRUGGLES TO FIND DEMOCRACY. WHILE MANY THOUGHT THAT THE 1989 REVOLUTION IN ROMANIA WAS BOTH THE MOST BLOODY AND THE MOST COMPLETE, THE PASSAGE OF TIME HAS SEEN MANY COMMUNISTS, SECRET POLICE AGENTS, AND CRONIES OF THE EXECUTED PRESIDENT NICOLAE CEAUSESCU RISE TO HIGH POSITIONS IN THE GOVERNMENT AND IN BUSINESS. THE RULING COALITION LED BY ION ILIESCU HAS DEMONSTRATED A DISDAIN FOR OPPOSITION AND A PENCHANT FOR ANTI-SEMITISM AND ANTI-LIBERALISM AS WELL AS A WILLINGNESS TO PLAY ON ETHNIC RIVALRIES TO REMAIN IN POWER. THE STRUGGLES OF DEMOCRACY IN ROMANIA DEMONSTRATE A GENERAL WEAKNESS OF CIVIL SOCIETY.

Die gescheiterten Versuche der Opposition, mit einem Mißtrauensvotum Premierminister Vacaroiu und mit Hilfe eines Amtsenthebungsverfahren Präsident Iliescu zu stürzen, können die Zerrissenheit des Oppositionsbündnisses Demokratische Versammlung Rumäniens nicht verdecken. Die Zerrissenheit der Opposition geht auf inhaltliche wie organisatorische Meinungsverschiedenheiten zurück. Hierbei geht es um die Wiedereinführung der Monarchie sowie verschiedene Vorschläge zur Neustrukturierung des Oppositionsbündnisses. Die Uneinigkeit der Opposition ist im Zuge der Diskussion um die gescheiterten Anträge nur noch deutlicher geworden. Zudem haben diese Anträge zu einer Annäherung der regierenden Postkommunisten und der oppositionellen Nationalisten geführt. (BIOst-Wpt)