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CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES: TOPICS IN POLITICS, INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Invited editors: Nicolae Iuga and Claudiu Porumbăcean PART I. POLITICAL DISCOURSE: THEORETICAL APPROACHES ISSUES OF LEGITIMIZING POLITICAL POWER IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: MAX WEBER AND KARL JASPERS Nicolae Iuga ROMANIAN PHILOSOPHICAL IDEAS REGARDING THE NATIONAL STATE AT THE BEGINNING OF THE […]

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ISSUES OF LEGITIMIZING POLITICAL POWER IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: MAX WEBER AND KARL JASPERS

ISSUES OF LEGITIMIZING POLITICAL POWER IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: MAX WEBER AND KARL JASPERSNicolae IUGA“Vasile Goldiş” Western University of AradFaculty of Humanities, Politics and Administrative Sciences, AradTel: 0040-257-282324 E-mail: nicolaeiuga@yahoo.comAbstractThe issue of legitimizing political power has specific dimensions determined by the historical context. In the period following the First World War, […]

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ROMANIAN PHILOSOPHICAL IDEAS REGARDING THE NATIONAL STATE AT THE BEGINNING OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

ROMANIAN PHILOSOPHICAL IDEAS REGARDING THE NATIONAL STATE AT THE BEGINNING OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURYCristian MĂDUŢA“Vasile Goldiş” Western University of AradFaculty of Humanities, Politics and Administrative Sciences, AradTel: 0040-257-282324 E-mail: cristian_maduta@yahoo.comAbstractAt the beginning of the twentieth century Romanian people started to acknowledge their identity, their common culture and values, thus shaping the ideal of self-determination and […]

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DISMEMBERING YUGOSLAVIA AND ESTABLISHING THE REPUBLIC OF KOSOVO. EFFECTS ON THE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS SYSTEM

DISMEMBERING YUGOSLAVIA AND ESTABLISHING THE REPUBLIC OF KOSOVO. EFFECTS ON THE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS SYSTEMClaudiu PORUMBĂCEANFaculty of Human, Political and Administrative Sciences,“Vasile Goldiş” Western University of Arad, RomaniaTel: 0040-257-282324 E.mail: claudiupp@yahoo.comAbstractThe case of Kosovo represents an ethnic conflict pronounced at maximum in which the nationalists Serbs appealing to armed pressure, combined with acts of violence, summoned […]

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INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS THEORY AND SECURITY

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS THEORY AND SECURITYNicoleta LAŞAN“Vasile Goldiş” Western University of AradFaculty of Humanities, Politics and Administrative Sciences, AradTel: 0040-257-282324 E-mail: nicoclau2000@yahoo.comAbstractSecurity has been and will be an essential preoccupation of state leaders, at least until the division of the international system in states remains in place. Analyzing the international relations theory, it becomes obvious that […]

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GOOD BUDGETING AND GOOD GOVERNANCE: A COMPARATIVE DISCOURSE

GOOD BUDGETING AND GOOD GOVERNANCE: A COMPARATIVE DISCOURSEBen-Caleb EGBIDEDepartment of Accounting, School of BusinessCollege of Development Studies, Covenant University, Ota, Ogun StateTel.:+2348035855644 E.mail: bencaleb1@yahoo.comGodwyns Ade’ AGBUDEDepartment of Political Science and International Relations, School of Social Sciences, College of Development Studies, Covenant University, Canaan Land OtaTel.: +2348034854242 E.mail: agodwins1@yahoo.comAbstractThe observed budgetary abuses including lack of transparency, […]

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THE EUROPEAN UNION INSTITUTIONAL REFORM. THE LEGAL FRAMEWORK

THE EUROPEAN UNION INSTITUTIONAL REFORM. THE LEGAL FRAMEWORKVendelin Francisc GLAZER“Vasile Goldiş” Western University of AradFaculty of Humanities, Politics and Administrative Sciences, AradTel: 0040-257-282324 E-mail: glazer_wendel@yahoo.comAbstractThe EU legal framework is represented by the European Parliament and the Mediator. The European Parliament is the mostd emocratic body of the EU, benefiting according to the Treaty of Maastrich […]

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ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE. BASIC THEORETICAL APPROACHES

ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE. BASIC THEORETICAL APPROACHESAndrea ANGEL-SVEDAFaculty of Social Sciences,University of Oradea, RomaniaTel: 0040- 742699166 E-mail: svedaandrea@yahoo.comAbstractThe main objective of organizational change is to increase organizational efficiency. Changes in organization involves in most of the times cultural changes and redesign of organizational structure. The main types of organizational change are: development change, transitional change, transformational change, […]

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