CONTENT

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 TWENTIETH CENTURY

Cristian Măduţa

PART II. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS. SECURITY ISSUES

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

Claudiu Porumbăcean

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS THEORY AND SECURITY

Nicoleta Laşan

PART III. GOOD GOVERNING. LEGAL, ORGANIZATIONAL, AND INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORKS

GOOD BUDGETING AND GOOD GOVERNANCE: A COMPARATIVE DISCOURSE

Ben-Caleb Egbide

Godwyns Ade’ Agbude

THE EUROPEAN UNION INSTITUTIONAL REFORM. THE LEGAL FRAMEWORK

Vendelin Glazer

ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE. BASIC THEORETICAL APPROACHES

Andrea Angel-Sveda