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001 2001131745
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005 20050607115040.0
008 020617s2001 cou b 000 0 eng d
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050 00 $aDR268$b.N37 2001
082 00 $a320.9498/09/05$221
100 1 $aNăstase, Adrian,$d1950-
245 10 $aBattle for the future /$cAdrain Năstase.
260 $aBoulder :$bEast European Monographs ;$aNew York :$bDistributed by Colombia University Press,$c2001.
300 $a262 p. ;$c22 cm.
440 0 $aEast European monographs ;$v585
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [257]-262).
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: PART I -- Chapter 1 -- CHANGE, BEI'WEENUIJOPIA -- AND THE NEED FORA POLITICALPROJECI21 -- 1.1 A heavily delayed start, or looking fir the time wasted away -- 1.2 "Shock therapy" and the jump into the unknown -- 1.3 Epistemic components of a political project -- 1.4 Europe's rhythm and Kutuzov's dilemma -- Chapter 2 -- 1989- SIGNIFICANCEAND INTERPRETATIONS29 -- 2.1 Moving away from post-factum theorizing -- 2.2 Finding de facto economic arguments -- 2.3 Cold War pressure, perestroika and alternatives -- to a rigid type of communism -- Chapter 3 -- FROM THE REVOL)TIONTO CHECKING ON DEMOCRACY39 -- 3.1 Revolution and evolutions -- 3.2 Too young, to rash, too naive -- 3.3 When legitimacy is disputed and regrettable risks take place -- 3.4 Difficult beginnings and 'inheritances at war' -- Chapter 4 -- GLOBAIUZATION -- ANDTHEFUTUREOFTRANSITION51 -- 4.1 The society of the future - and intelligent network -- 4.2 Going from socialism to capitalism: -- what scapegoat shall we look for? -- 4.3 The inheritance of the past and the burden of the present -- 4.4 Education and economy -- 4.5 The Catcher on the frontier to the future -- 4.6 Waiting for one's turn in the transition tunnel -- Part II -- Chapter 5 -- POLITICAL WILL -- AND POLIICAL ELTE- SRUCTURESAND PATTERNS71 -- 5.1 From the masses to the public. -- From the politician to the professional specializing -- in a political career -- 5.2 Brief presentation of the elite or -- why should intellectuals be so easygoing? -- 5.3 The story of the schism - the rifts of Romanian society -- 5.4 Political pragmatism - a necessary, but insufficient condition -- 5.5 The changes of the political class -- Chapter 6 -- EITIISM POPULISM, SOCIALDEMOCRACY83 -- 6.1 Toward a clientele system -- 6.2 Political show versus political action -- 6.3 Technocracy does not save Romania -- Chapter 7 -- POLITICAL WILL VERSUS CIVIL SOCIETY?93 -- 7.1 The laws of Chronos and the infant Romanian democracy -- 7.2 The Romanian civil society - reductionism, elitism and partisanship -- 7.3 Public/private partnership - a failed necessity -- Chapter 8 -- ECONOMIC REFORMANDTHETRANSITON MYTHS101 -- 8.1 The role of the state during a transition period -- 8.2 The state and modern society -- 8.3 Social democracy and the Welfare State -- 8.4 Ideology and reform: an unacceptable solution -- 8.5 Is the reform a matter of state interest? -- Part III -- Chapter 9 -- POLITICALPARTIES -- BETWEEN IDEOLOGYAND POLITICALCRIS127 -- 9.1 Sterile disputes and calamitous outcomes -- 9.2 The year 2000 - Evolutions of the Romanian political system -- 9.3 The attraction of extremism and the ideal of cohesion -- 9.4 The temptation of the closed system -- and the ideological conservation -- 9.5 Politics - the art of the possible and the utopia of pure ethics -- 9.6 The political pact: a solution, an opportunity -- Chapter 10 -- POLTICALROMANIA- -- THEGAMEOFSUBSTANCELESS FORMS145 -- 10.1 Ideological discourses and the carousel of political parties -- 10.2 The doctrinal paradox: -- a beneficial imperative or a necessary compromise? -- 10.3 Ideological discourse, a secondary discourse? -- Chapter 11 -- SOCIALDEMOCRACY -- BEIWEENHI STORYANDFUTUROLOGY161 -- 11.1 Democratizing of society - a work of political architecture -- 11.2 Romania and the social-democratic option -- Chapter 12 -- APLEA FORASOCIAL-DEMOCRATROMANIA173 -- 12.1 The premises of transformation - in search of a middle class -- 12.2 The stakes of the social-democratic governance project -- 12.3 Remember the future!.
650 0 $aWorld politics.
651 0 $aRomania$xForeign relations.
651 0 $aRomania$xPolitics and government.
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy022/2001131745.html