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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Romanians and Hungarians Historical Premises -- I Hungarian Revisionism -- II Did "Millennial Hungary" Exist? -- III Can the Invocation of a "Millennial Hungary" Constitute an Argument for Revisionism? -- IV The Origin, Character, and Penetration of the Hungarians into the Pannonian Plain Condition the Frontiers of Present-Day Hungary -- V History, Character, and Privileged Structure of the Hungarian Apostolic Kingdom of the Middle Ages -- VI Geographical Discordances Created through the Penetration of the Hungarian Domination into the Neighboring Countries -- VII Geographical Unity of the Carpathian Region -- VIII Origin of the Romanian People: Prehistoric Civilization, Thracians and Dacians -- IX The Roman-Dacian conflict -- X Thracian and Roman Succession -- XI The Romanization of the Dacians -- XII Dacia in the Epoch of Migrations: The Slavs and the Formation of the Romanian People's Individuality -- XIII Primitive Slavic-Romanian Voivodates -- the Beginnings of Some Autochthonous Political Organizations -- XIV The Part Played in History by the Voivodates of Wallachia and Moldavia -- Michael the Brave and the Rebuilding of the National Unity of the Carpathian Region -- XV The Romanian People and the Hungarian State in Face of the Unity of the Carpathian Regions -- Ioan Corvin -- XVI Penetration of Hungarian Domination into the Romanian Districts near the Tisa and in Transylvania -- XVII Character and Aims of Hungarian Domination in those Regions -- XVIII The Genesis of the Transylvanian Autonomous Principality -- "Unio Trium Nationum" -- Dozsa's Rebellion, the Tripartite Code of Law, and the Mohács Disaster -- XIX Character of the Transylvanian Principality -- XX The Passing of Transylvania under the Domination of the Habsburgs -- Tendencies and Aims of that Domination.

Irrespective of the level of analysis, identity remains a vague concept, slippery, and insufficiently elaborated and defined. Be it individual or collective, ethnical or social, local or general, regional (e.g. the EU) or global, identity is a recurrent subject in political debates. Situated on the edge of history, anthropology, sociology, political science, and psychology it increasingly becomes a leading paradigm in the area of social sciences. Starting from the broader European perspective

Literary and cultural images, once considered marginal to the main currents of political and institutional development in southeastern Europe, have been accorded much greater importance by scholars in recent years. In this volume Alex Drace-Francis brings together over fifteen years of work on the topic of representations of Romania and Romanians. Crossing the East-West divide, the book studies both external images of the country and people, and domestically-generated representations of Europe and 'the West'. It draws on material in a wide range of languages and offers a long-term view, providing a nuanced and historically-grounded contribution to the lively debates over Balkanism, Orientalism and identities in Romania and in Europe as a whole.

Literary and cultural images, once considered marginal to the main currents of political and institutional development in southeastern Europe, have been accorded much greater importance by scholars in recent years. In this volume Alex Drace-Francis brings together over fifteen years of work on the topic of representations of Romania and Romanians. Crossing the East-West divide, the book studies both external images of the country and people, and domestically-generated representations of Europe and 'the West'. It draws on material in a wide range of languages and offers a long-term view, providing a nuanced and historically-grounded contribution to the lively debates over Balkanism, Orientalism and identities in Romania and in Europe as a whole.

This paper investigates Romania's auto-image as described by Dan Puric in his book
Suflet Românesc
(
Romanian Soul
). By employing imagology, this article first shows how Romanian national identity is constructed in opposition to Western culture and modernity. And by drawing on imagology and Hayden White's approach to historiography, I provide a discursive analysis of the Romanian auto-image provided in the text. I show that Puric's writing of Romanian national identity is a Romantic one rendered in the anarchist mode. The author alleges that Romanians are born with a "Romanian soul," which guarantees their adherence to a Christian Orthodox worldview, one to which Western culture and modernity are inimical. The dominant metaphor used to represent Romanianness is the folktale, whose main traits—being set in
illo tempore
, a focus on a stark moral antithesis between good and evil where the former prevails, and favouring intuition over reason—are allegedly shared by "pure" Romanians. After revealing the pillars of Romanianness in Puric's view, I trace the intellectual and cultural continuities between his Romanian auto-image and Romania's far-right views on nation and nationhood, as well as the national communist view on Romanianness. As far as the former is concerned, I highlight the structural similarities between Puric's nationalism and anti-Semitic discourse. With respect to the latter, I draw attention to Puric's reliance on two of the several national communist myths identified by Romanian historian Lucian Boia: the myth of continuity and the myth of conspiracy. Puric's book dovetails with national communist discourse by postulating the alleged continuity between the peoples and cultures that have existed in Romania's current geographic location across the centuries and retains its communist fears of foreign conspiracy.

This article reports on findings from the first stage of a longer study of the realities of offending in Romania, which has the highest incarceration rate in Europe. The main goals of the research were to make an accurate estimate of the number of Rroma (Gypsy) men in Romanian prisons and to identify their socio‐cultural characteristics and criminality. The information from this study will be used to help facilitate the work of the developing probation service in Romania and the social integration of Rroma offenders. It should also inform a crime reduction strategy in Romania and hopefully, the social inclusion policies of the European Commission, Romania and its accession neighbours all having large Rroma communities.

Two groups of children are described, some adopted out of their country of origin and some adopted in their own country. Utilizing a family systems model adaptable across countries, the impact of institutionalization on later child behavior is examined. Results will assist practitioners to develop a protocol to assess the family and the child at various ages, regardless of country of origin.

Abstract
According to official data, Romanian voter turnout decreased by half for the period 1990-2012. Gaps between official and self-reported turnout are larger than those from similar countries. Starting with these findings, this paper questions the official data regarding turnout and brings evidence that turnout in Romanian elections is increasingly underestimated. Three factors are responsible for this: the quality of the electoral registers, ineligible voters and emigration. The effect of these factors grew over time inducing the idea that turnout is sharply decreasing. In fact, the decrease is less pronounced, and most of it took place between 1990 and 2000. In the last part, I discuss the implications of the findings in three domains: theoretical debates, methodological and practical issues.

This paper is written from the contextual perspective of understanding and reviewing the processes associated with human resources management (HRM) in organizations. Consequently, the purpose of this paper is to explore the trends of HRM practices in order to identify the specific characteristics of Romanian organizations and to establish its specificity in the national defence system. In the first part of the paper we will refer to the research framework and point out the evolving and conceptual benchmarks that are of importance to this approach. The characteristics of human resources management in Romanian organizations are established by comparisons with other countries, while the central axis of comparison is represented by the member states of the European Union (EU). Starting from the results of this analysis, the particularities of HRM that are defence-related, identified through the study of the regulatory framework and comments regarding the current guidelines are made. In the conclusions, the paper will present main ideas resulted, personal contributions, issues addressed and research limitations.