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A aparut cartea "Theft of a Nation: Romania Since Communism" de Tom Gallagher
Book Description
(available at www.amazon.co.uk)
Romania had the chance of a fresh start politically after the collapse of the
brutal and macabre dictatorship of Nicolae Ceausescu in 1989. Instead bad
governance has persisted within an incomplete democatic system with disastrous
results for many millions of people.
Tom Gallagher explores why continuity rather than change has been the dominant
feature of political life after 1989. He provides an insparing portait of the
post-communist leadership centred around Ion Iliescu, Adrian Nastase and their
clients and allies, showing how defence of private or group interests has
usually been their primary concern. He shows how they promoted bogus
nationalist movements in order to cover up systematic misuse of state
resources. The failure of the non-communist democratic alternative, centred
around Emil Constantinscu, Romania's President from 1996 to 2000, to break this
pattern of misrule, is closely examined.
The author warns hat NATO and EU membership are unlikely to provide the impetus
for national recovery unless convncing local partners are found, prepared at
all times to defend Romania's national interests. The danger that Romania wll
become a Latin American-style island of backwardness inside hte EU is a real
one as the ruling PSD agrees entry terms that severely weaken Romanian
agriculture, industry and commerce. Incisive portaits of the political elite,
the security services and the new economic oligarchy are provided in this
study. Tom Gallagher is convinced that Romania can break free from the
communist past and enjoy close and fruitful links with the West only if strong
reformist movements emerge from increasingly self-aware sections of society
that reject the political practices of the past.
Synopsis
Problems that have made the country a byword for misrule - such as a corrupt
ruling elite, unaccountable intelligence services and extreme nationalists
adept at exploiting social misery - remain largely unresolved. Only in 2000m it
was in Romania that the best electoral performance so far of any of Europe's
radical extremist movements was obtained. As NATO and the European Union expand
eastwards, the success of the most important shift in European security since
the end of the Cold War is bound up with the outcome of necessary reforms in
Romania.
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Cristina Nicolescu
Director de programe
Centrul National de Voluntariat Pro Vobis
Cluj Napoca 400 117 Calea Dorobantilor nr. 21 mansarda
Tel/fax: 0264 412 897
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dezvolta voluntariatul in Romania ca o resursa viabila si de neinlocuit
in solutionarea problemelor cu care se confrunta societatea romaneasca.
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