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The goal of the study is to estimate the correlation between two important macroeconomic variables in the labour market: the total unemployment rate over the active population (as dependent variable), respectively the rate of social protection expenditures with the unemployment over GDP (as independent or causal variable) in Romania. In order to achieve the goal, the following objectives were achieved: a) the formation of time series and the statistical analysis for the two variables; b) designing a mono-factorial linear econometric model; c) estimation of the econometric model. The empirical data used are quarterly data between January 1997 and December 2016. The data quality was provided by using the following sources: EUROSTAT, respectively the Romanian Statistical Yearbook. The main scientific results of the study are as follows: 1) statistically the time series of the two variables are stationary only at the level of the first order differences, the series of the independent variable is nonnormal, and the dependent variable is quasi-normal; 2) the estimation of the quantitative model shows that there is a direct correlation (though weak, about 3%) between the dependent and the independent variable. At the same time, there are no influences outside the independent variable (the free term of the first degree equation is approximately - 0.002). In conclusion, it can be said that the variation of the total unemployment rate in the active population is direct, albeit relatively weak, influenced by the change in the rate of social protection expenditures in GDP. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Amid the economic setbacks inherited from the interwar period, Romania's inclusion into the Soviet Bloc triggered major transformations within its economy, marred by war reparations and forced industrialisation, as it has been investigated through qualitative analyses of literature and primary documents. The economic break-up from the URSS marked the evolutions of Romania in the 1960s and enabled it to seek some degree of closeness to China and, on the other hand, to the West, whilst building a particular model of nationalist communism. The fluctuating relations with Far-East countries failed to prevent the collapse of a regime that became obsolete after the hardships of the 1970s and 1980s. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The recent efforts to accelerate regionalization in Romania, driven by the willingness of the central government in 2012 to cope with the European Union conditionality and to boost the economic recovery with the help of EU funding, have put forward new constraints and limitations that have been previously neglected. Whereas previous attempts to boost regionalization have been hampered by ethnic and electoral issues, this time the essential factor that slowed down the process was the interaction and conflict between local actors. When for the first time the process of decentralization was open for the access of local elected officials and local organisations of national parties, negotiations regarding social innovation in regional design and competing geographies have seriously constrained the ongoing top-down decision style of the regime. Unable to contain local actors, who were engaged in the defence of local identities and interests, the central government blocked the process and postponed regionalization for a more favourable future context. Despite the failure of the 2012 regionalization initiative, the Romanian case is instructive for the way local actors may use windows of opportunity, which have been created by external pressure, in order to transform inertial regimes, as it is the case with the long-lasting administrative centralist regime in Romania. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article investigates the context in which the State Committee of Architecture and Construction was established in Romania in the fall of 1952. It pays a particular attention to the activities of the Soviet councillors in Romania during the early 1950s, and also stresses the ideological discourse significant weight in reconfiguring the construction field. Based on a vast archival documentation, this study argues that the institutionalization of socialist realism in Romanian architectural practice occurred under the conjugated actions of the soviet bureaucratic model and local political and economic conditions. As such, this article argues that the reconfiguration of the construction field in the country was partly fueled by the need to develop policies that met the populations' everyday life needs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Romanian post-totalitarian state was marked by many changes in all its levels, political, social, economic, media, etc.. The economic field has experienced a radical transformation by establishing, at constitutional level in 1991, of the concept of market economy, freedom of private property and freedom of competition. Subsequently, expression of the liberal character of the Romanian post-totalitarian state, through the constitutional revision from 2003, another concept underlies the relationship from the field of economy: economic freedom. The centralism of the totalitarian state is replaced by free market economy, public and private property and free competition of economic actors. The state has become such an economic actor, along with other private economic agents, the regulation of the economic field having to meet the requirements of economic liberalism. In this context, the privatization process of certain state assets appears as a natural one. However, the evolution and regulation of this process is a difficult and complex one, regarding many aspects: privatization of state-owned companies (Law no. 58/1991), bank privatization (Law no. 83/1997), transfer or sale of actions, the establishment of specialized institutions (National Agency for Privatization, Private Property Fund). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Russo-Turkish war of 1828-1829, led to the change of the legal status of the Romanian Principalities. Russia became a protective power and Turkey a suzerain power. The Organic Regulations introduced new provisions in various areas of the Romanian social life, the most significant remaining those regarding the State organisation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Typically, the decentralization process is extremely complicated and involves many challenges, if we were to take into account local conflicts, the interests of the central government and the complexity of simultaneous decentralization in administrative, political and economic plan. The financial crisis has added another dimension to the complexity of this phenomenon, misbalancing the economy and creating a fiscal pressure both at central and local level. In this context it rises the problem whether the management of the financial crisis can be better realised within a decentralized system or whether it may lay pressure on the return to the centralized government form. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The unprecedented accentuation of the need for growth in the professionalism of the military must be understood as an essential imperative of adaptation, both to the older or more recent changes, but extremely dynamic, occurred internationally (information explosion, emergence, evolution, diversification and rapid migration of new risks and threats to national security) and those occurred nationally (change of the political regime in Romania, the Romanian economy shift to an organization and functioning under the market economy principles, leaving a political-military alliance and adherence to another, increasing the demographic deficit, democratization of the Romanian society). The need for a high degree of professionalism was determined by the limitations and constraints, which require significant reductions in the military forces, the need for rendering combat structures and command structures efficient, the adoption of new organizational forms, which could better explore human potential. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the political crisis that Romania is going through as a result of the derived and interconnected crises that the world economy is experiencing, the international financial crisis which started in 2007 in the USA and rapidly spread above the borders and the global economic crisis which has been developing before 2007 but started to be in the view of specialists as the financial one got more and more importance. In this respect, this paper has two major objectives: on one hand, to analyse and present the causes of the political and moral crisis in Romania and on the other hand, to identify the features of the Romanian mentality during a period of time of crisis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The subject of this presentation is to emphasize the intrinsic relationship between Romania and Black Sea, taking into consideration geopolitical issues. From this point of view it is presented Romanian interests regarding Black Sea and the extended region of Black Sea, taking into account the fact that it doesn't represent a conjunctural or a historical issue or a consequence of actual geopolitical evolutions. In order to sustain and promote these interests it is much and much stressed the idea that Romania has to become a regional maritime power. This represent a condition for promoting national interests in Black Sea region. Romanian interests in Black Sea region can be compeled by risky economic, military-political and military factors. Promoting our interests in Black Sea region, Romania becomes a factor of stability in the region, contributing at the same time to a stability and security climate, both in Black Sea region and in the extended region of Black Sea. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Risk analysis, threats and vulnerabilities concern both the political, military, usually those in the security sphere and beyond, here we mean business and economic environments. Present and future place before mankind as a key requirement, the approach to risk and vulnerability, while concentrating on efforts for the effective management of issues with global or regional scale and in this framework streamlining state interests (national) on a course favorable community interests. In the context of major contemporary social and political changes, international imbalances and tension caused by these processes, new forms of criminality have taken a great extent especially in countries in transition to market economy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From various doctrinarian or ideological angles, and in various forms, Romanian historiography has highlighted the manner in which political and cultural goals combined with the need for economic progress among the Tansylvanian Romanians. Quite often, this interaction sought to produce a distract network of economic relations defined along national lines. The radical shift occurred in our national historiography after 1989, when new topics were approached and the old ones were revisited from an entirely new perspective, with the help of the methods and techniques currently used in Europe, opened unlimited horizons to the researchers working in the field of history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article provides a discussion of the economic, social, and political condition of Romania in the 1980's. An analysis from a historical perspective of the economic and social decay of the nation is also presented. According to the author, there is a lack in political continuity between the 1960's and 1980's in any of the two areas, in political strategies or in the structure and composition of the ruling elite. Factors that affect the problem of political decay are also mentioned in the article including degradation of the ruling elite, the rise of a power instrument, and discrepancy between domestic and foreign policy and its effect on the international status of the country.

The article reports on developments in Romanian agriculture during the 1980's. From the second half of the 1940's to the late 1970's, accelerated industrialization eclipsed romania's agricultural sector. The agriculture sector experienced a transition of problem, during the mid-1980's, from the domain of production to the sphere of marketing. The amount of agricultural products allocated were not increasing despite improvements in production. Several measures introduced in 1982 which includes integration of the machine stations, an incentive price system, opportunities for the peasants and cooperatives to obtain higher money incomes, and others, contributed to the improvement of production conditions. The strengthening of administrative controls prevented the impact of the measures.