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Showing 1 to 20 of 154 for “"Romania"”.
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The Roma of Romania
… to meet the strict conditions of EU membership, Romania was required to undertake drastic reforms in its political and economic systems. European Council in Copenhagen, in June 1993, identified as the Copenhagen Criteria for Memberships: Political Criteria, Economic Criteria and Ability to assume …
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Resistance through literature in Romania (1945-1989)
… a small margin of freedom to people in communist Romania. The study is specifically concerned with the intellectual and psychological survival within the Romanian totalitarian system maintained through oppression and arbitrary exercise of power, while prohibiting any manifestation of civil and …
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The Middle and Upper Paleolithic in Romania
… focuses on the Middle and Upper Paleolithic in Romania and it has three goals. First, it demonstrates that the Romanian Paleolithic is not merely an eastern manifestation of Western European prehistory, but rather, a distinct and independent entity. Second, the major interpretative and …
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The Post-Communist Urban Landscape of Bucharest, Romania
… the post-communist urban landscape in Bucharest, Romania, with particular emphasis on the consequences of its transition from a centrally planned, communist economic and political structure to that of a free market system. The lasting legacy of failed communism and a painful, tumultuous transition …
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A Case Study of Sex Trafficking in Romania
<p>Romania is undergoing a severe crisis. The country is confronted with a transnational issue of dramatic proportions. Romania has become what experts in the sex trafficking field call “a global center for human trafficking” (Batstone, Romania a Global Center for Human Trafficking, 2011, February …
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Welfare Chauvinism East and West: Romania and France
… I argue that the core constituencies of Greater Romania Party and the French National Front are a side effect of the latest stage in the process of modernization of the two countries---the transition from an advanced industrial economy to a post-industrial economy in France, and the transition …
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A strategy for church-based leadership training in Romania
… training in the communist and post-communist Romanian contexts. Important highlights of the evolution of Baptist leadership training are presented. A concise discussion of the proposed issue is included as well as an explanation of the limitations of this study. This chapter presents the …
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Meiofauna in a chemosynthetic groundwater ecosystem: Movile Cave, Romania
Die 1986 entdeckte Movile-Höhle stellt ein Grundwasserökosystem dar, das eine artenreiche Gemeinschaft von Wirbellosen beherbergt. Jedoch erreicht keinerlei photoautotroph produzierte Nahrung die Höhle, die seit mindestens der letzten Eiszeit vollständig von der Erdoberfläche isoliert ist. …
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Corporate social responsibility in the transition economy of Romania
… Social Responsibility (CSR) by managers of Romanian organisations in the textile industry. The research examines how managers’ sense making affects the adoption of CSR processes compared to those suggested in the CSR literature. The thesis looks at how Romanian managers and consequently …
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Disciplining the future. Eugenics and modernization in interwar Romania
… of the human species found many adepts in Romania during the interwar period. They brought to life their various interpretations of eugenics in many embodiments, from programs for physical education and better nutrition, to movements to segregate and even eliminate Jews and other …
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Transylvanian Baroque: Liberalism and its Others in Rural Romania
This thesis is an exploration of liberalism in Romania and in anthropology. Liberalism is frequently represented in contemporary anthropology as a hegemonic technocratic practice, rationalist ideology and hypocritically exclusionary politics. I challenge this representation through an ethnography …
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Land reform and economic development : case study on Romania
… governing the ownership and use of land. Taking Romania as a case study, this thesis focuses on the institutional changes that accompany land reform (e.g., property rights, market services, rural financial services) and the role the state plays in the implementation process. The main hypothesis …
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Global Career Development Facilitator Romania: Training Evaluation and Job Analysis
… Global Career Development Facilitator (GCDF) Romania training program was the focus of the current study. GCDF is a paraprofessional certification program in the field of career counseling and development, which was created in the United States by the Center for Credentialing and Education, …
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The Word of Science: Popularising Darwinism in Romania, 1859-1918
… of Charles Darwin’s evolutionary theory in Romania from 1859 to 1918. Placing Darwinism in the Romanian context is important in several ways, as not only gives a picture of the interconnectedness between the political and the scientific construction of knowledge, but also reveals how …
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Gender, Nation, Pronatalism: Encouraging Births in France, Romania, and Israel
"Building on feminist studies that have linked pronatalism with nationalism, I examine right wing nationalisms and more inclusive, citizen-based nationalisms, which are more accepting of ""the other,"" but may still be concerned with reproducing a national group. This study reveals a complex set of …
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Why Do States Join Military Alliances?: The Case of Romania
… on its size and geographical configuration, Romania again confronted its history in the alliance dilemma of whether to "balance" against threatening states or to "bandwagon" with the states that posed the greatest threats in order to appease their power. Stephen M. Walt (1987) predicted that …
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Poverty and Work Experiences of Roma in Romania : A Study Through the Lens of Field, Habitus, Capital, and Anomie in a Roma Community in Romania
… work among Roma in the context of post-socialist Romania through the lens of Merton´s modes of adaptation to anomie and Bourdieu´s concepts of field, habitus, and capital. The purpose is to investigate Roma remembrance of work in the former communist regime and explore how they navigate socially …
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Social work activism – A comparative study of Romania and the UK
… in the British context and unexplored in Romania.Given the relative infancy of social work as a profession in Romania, a study that compares activism among social workers here with a more well-established situation in the UK offers an opportunity for significant learning around individual …
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Rhinoceros, or Young Intellectuals and the Radical Right in Interwar Romania
… a generation of young intellectuals in interwar Romania. Using the cases of famous figures such as Mircea Eliade and Emil Cioran, as well as of lesser-known individuals such as Mihail Polihroniade, this work tells the story of one generation’s journey from the avant-garde of European culture to …
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