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Considerations on the Prime minister’s recent trip to Ankara

Ioana Abăseacă

23 Oct 2018

Featured image © Gov.ro Disclaimer: Please note that all opinions expressed here represent the author’s personal opinions and do not necessarily reflect The Political Science Club’s position. Last week, Romanian Prime minister met with Turkish President Erdogan in the Presidential Palace in Ankara, as part...

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Diplomacy in the past century and nowadays

Ioana Abăseacă

01 Apr 2018

No one knows better about the relations between two countries than their diplomats. Instructed, educated women and men, they have represented their countries in times of peace and war, assuming some of the most difficult negotiations with some of the world’s most powerful leaders throughout...

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Banking Tradition and the Spirit of Cryptocurrency Adoption

Vlad Costea

19 Jan 2018

When Max Weber wrote “The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism”, he basically started from a simple empirical inquiry: why did the industrial emerge in England fueled by Western ideas, instead of taking place in the historically more innovative China? His very influential assessment...

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Using agenda setting to create a more mature public. Can we do it?

Ioana Abăseacă

05 Jan 2018

Disclaimer: One should interpret this article from a political science perspective, as I sometimes pretend to have. The reason I chose this topic is because it has been on the back of my mind quite a while. And I need your comments to improve my...

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ASSP: Mini-Autocrats

Voltaire

09 Nov 2017

Let me start you off with a story. We shall call it that even though the events are real. It’s evening around the building of the faculty. Inside, however, the atmosphere is as lively as it can be on a cold November the 7th. The...

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The “American Problem” – A story of Donald Trump and the European Union

Voltaire

11 Sep 2017

Throughout its long history, Europe has known a great many “problems” that were so tightly knit to the fabric of the space in which they occurred that they became known as national problems. The Turks had a problem, the Czechs and Slovaks, the Polish, the...

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The Politics of Bojack Horseman

Vlad Costea

10 Sep 2017

Netflix’s “Bojack Horseman” is a masterful introspective satire of the seemingly-glamorous celebrity life, which focuses on the inner struggles of a few very distinct characters. Though the cartoonish show is disguised as a comedy and even goes to great lengths to seem light-hearted and fun...