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> A aparut cartea "Theft of a Nation: Romania Since Communism" de
Tom Gallagher
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> Book Description
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> (available at www.amazon.co.uk)
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> 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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