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Wednesday, January 28th, 2026
Romanian Eurasianism? Mapping the political ideology of Călin Georgescu
This article investigates the meteoric and unexpected political rise of Călin Georgescu in Romanian domestic politics during the last two years by concentrating on his political philosophy, which is closely linked to the neo-Eurasianism developed by the Russian far-right intellectual Alexandr Dugin. Exploring philosophical, political, economic, and religious arguments, after...
Saturday, July 2nd, 2011
The Ideological Institutionalization of the Romanian Party System
Twenty years after the fall of communism and the rebirth of multiparty politics in Central and Eastern Europe, the party systems evolved from high levels of fragmentation and volatility characterizing the 1990’s (Mair 1997; Rose et al. 1998; Lewis 2000; Birch 2001; van Biezen 2003) to a general continuity and...
