Termenul ideologie este definit in sens general de Dictionarul explicativ al limbii romane ca: Totalitatea ideilelor si conceptiilor care constituie partea teoretica a unui curent, sistem etc. In consecinta discutia noastra se va concentra pe latura teoretica a relatiilor si politicilor internationale incercand sa lamureasca problemele pe care le intampina istoricii relatiilor diplomatice in intelegerea mecanismelor mentale ce anima...

My starting point will be the conceptualization of democracy as it was crystallized by several scholars. Thus, I will refer to the classical study of Juan Linz and Alfred Stepan, who founded their theory of democratic transition and consolidation upon the delineation of the five arenas that necessarily interact in a democratic system. The five arenas that they pointed out are: a free and lively civil society, a relatively autonomous and...

Statele Unite ale Americii sunt unul din cei mai importanti contributori la bugetele altor state in sume nete, din perspectiva guvernamentala, si este “casa” celui mai mare fenomen filantropic din lume. Dimensiunea filantropica a societatii americane isi are originea in a doua jumatate a secolului XIX, cand expansiunea economica americana a dat nastere unor “rechini” ai afacerilor, o categorie de oameni foarte bogata, provenita din...

It has become common practice among IR scholars to take the 9/11 events as a watershed that generated a shift in the US foreign policy towards the Middle Eastern area. And indeed, the Bush administration has stressed the mutation of its foreign policy logic: a new peril was looming over US, and this time it consisted no longer of rogue states, but of terrorist sub-state actors. Subsequently, a causal link was established between the...

Creditul bancar apare ca un sistem de relatii intre intreprinderi si banci, in cadrul caruia mijloacele baneşti ale intreprinderii devenite temporar disponibile in conturile bancare ale acestor intreprinderi, ca si cele ale sistemului financiar care se elibereaza, de asemenea temporar, in cursul operatiilor acestui sistem devin, în urma mobilizării lor de catre banci, resurse ale sistemului de credit si sunt folosite prin redistribuire...