Abstract This article identifies what is specific about Romania’s differentiated integration (DI) into European institutions. It outlines Romania’s expectations and priorities towards the European Union (EU) across three time periods: 1990–2000, 2001–2006 and 2007 onwards. Through this, it evaluates multiple perspectives on EU membership: DI; the development of macro-economic indicators; and Romanian attitudes towards European integration. In some areas, Romania has recorded substantial progress; in others it is still behind other Central and East European member states. Romania remains one of the most determined supporters of EU integration, as membership is considered a key impulse for economic stability and growth. Even if Romania is still outside the Schengen area and the eurozone, it continues to adhere to its accession objectives.
{"title":"Romania: A Case of Differentiated Integration into the European Union","authors":"Iulia Monica Oehler-Șincai","doi":"10.1515/soeu-2022-0050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/soeu-2022-0050","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article identifies what is specific about Romania’s differentiated integration (DI) into European institutions. It outlines Romania’s expectations and priorities towards the European Union (EU) across three time periods: 1990–2000, 2001–2006 and 2007 onwards. Through this, it evaluates multiple perspectives on EU membership: DI; the development of macro-economic indicators; and Romanian attitudes towards European integration. In some areas, Romania has recorded substantial progress; in others it is still behind other Central and East European member states. Romania remains one of the most determined supporters of EU integration, as membership is considered a key impulse for economic stability and growth. Even if Romania is still outside the Schengen area and the eurozone, it continues to adhere to its accession objectives.","PeriodicalId":29828,"journal":{"name":"Comparative Southeast European Studies","volume":"94 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135690541","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract This introduction summarizes the pathways up to and the experience of membership of the European Union of five recent member countries: Hungary, Romania, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia, all of which acceded in 2004 or, in the case of, Romania, in 2007. Key economic and domestic political developments as well as changes in public attitude to European integration are addressed using a comparative pattern; in addition, future research priorities are outlined in the hope of encouraging further academic and policy-oriented study both in the respective member countries and on the European scale.
{"title":"Accession Twenty Years On – Experiences, Expectations and Effects on the European Union: Introductory Remarks","authors":"András Inotai","doi":"10.1515/soeu-2023-2001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/soeu-2023-2001","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This introduction summarizes the pathways up to and the experience of membership of the European Union of five recent member countries: Hungary, Romania, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia, all of which acceded in 2004 or, in the case of, Romania, in 2007. Key economic and domestic political developments as well as changes in public attitude to European integration are addressed using a comparative pattern; in addition, future research priorities are outlined in the hope of encouraging further academic and policy-oriented study both in the respective member countries and on the European scale.","PeriodicalId":29828,"journal":{"name":"Comparative Southeast European Studies","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135690562","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Julianne Funk, Nancy Good and Marie E. Berry: <i>Healing and Peacebuilding after War. Transforming Trauma in Bosnia and Herzegovina</i>","authors":"Jacqueline Nießer","doi":"10.1515/soeu-2023-0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/soeu-2023-0009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29828,"journal":{"name":"Comparative Southeast European Studies","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135690550","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Jasmina Tumbas: <i>“I am Jugoslovenka!” Feminist Performance Politics during and after Yugoslav Socialism</i>","authors":"Miranda Jakiša","doi":"10.1515/soeu-2023-0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/soeu-2023-0011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29828,"journal":{"name":"Comparative Southeast European Studies","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135690565","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract Using an approach situated at the intersection of cultural memory studies and (critical) heritage studies, with a focus on the ambivalent socialist heritage of socialist statues and monuments and their changing role in postsocialist public spaces, this article engages with the postcommunist strategies of reckoning with the past in Romania and Bulgaria in the period 1990–2020. Comparing the kinds of monumental memory of communism that were established in these countries, the author discusses how each dealt with their ambivalent socialist heritage through a public memory policy comprising three combined strategies: removal; preservation; and the replacement of communist heroes with anticommunist counter-monuments. The author concludes that stances toward the socialist heritage manifest various tensions in terms of the types of statues that were removed or, alternately, allowed to remain; of the opposition between local and national decisions as well as between the official approach and citizens’ perspectives; and, finally, of aesthetic versus political criteria.
{"title":"Postsocialist Statuary Politics in Romania and Bulgaria: An Ambivalent Socialist Heritage","authors":"Caterina Preda","doi":"10.1515/soeu-2022-0043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/soeu-2022-0043","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Using an approach situated at the intersection of cultural memory studies and (critical) heritage studies, with a focus on the ambivalent socialist heritage of socialist statues and monuments and their changing role in postsocialist public spaces, this article engages with the postcommunist strategies of reckoning with the past in Romania and Bulgaria in the period 1990–2020. Comparing the kinds of monumental memory of communism that were established in these countries, the author discusses how each dealt with their ambivalent socialist heritage through a public memory policy comprising three combined strategies: removal; preservation; and the replacement of communist heroes with anticommunist counter-monuments. The author concludes that stances toward the socialist heritage manifest various tensions in terms of the types of statues that were removed or, alternately, allowed to remain; of the opposition between local and national decisions as well as between the official approach and citizens’ perspectives; and, finally, of aesthetic versus political criteria.","PeriodicalId":29828,"journal":{"name":"Comparative Southeast European Studies","volume":"71 1","pages":"147 - 168"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42341704","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tarik Jusić, Manuel Puppis, Laia Castro Herrero and Davor Marko: Up in the Air? The Future of Public Service Media in the Western Balkans","authors":"Dina Vozab","doi":"10.1515/soeu-2022-0066","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/soeu-2022-0066","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29828,"journal":{"name":"Comparative Southeast European Studies","volume":"71 1","pages":"257 - 260"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42499879","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Balázs Apor and John Paul Newman: Balkan Legacies: The Long Shadow of Conflict and Ideological Experiment in Southeastern Europe","authors":"Jure Ramšak","doi":"10.1515/soeu-2022-0056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/soeu-2022-0056","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29828,"journal":{"name":"Comparative Southeast European Studies","volume":"71 1","pages":"252 - 254"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46471168","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract This essay explores the advantages of a qualitative approach based on a preliminary analysis of a collection of street interviews broadcast from March 2022 to March 2023 in the Republic of Moldova via 34 radio programmes. While the results of the opinion polls reflect a clear division of opinion on the war in Ukraine within Moldovan society along pre-existing geopolitical lines, the interviews highlight the possibility of consensus among respondents voicing opposing views on the causes of the war. Regardless of ideological positions however, when asked, most respondents said they wished for peace. The author reflects on the potential inherent in that common response for a type of community based on inclusion and cohabitation.
{"title":"What Do Moldovans Think of and How Do They Talk about the Russian Aggression against Ukraine? Prolegomena for Qualitative Inquiry","authors":"Petru Negură","doi":"10.1515/soeu-2023-0028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/soeu-2023-0028","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This essay explores the advantages of a qualitative approach based on a preliminary analysis of a collection of street interviews broadcast from March 2022 to March 2023 in the Republic of Moldova via 34 radio programmes. While the results of the opinion polls reflect a clear division of opinion on the war in Ukraine within Moldovan society along pre-existing geopolitical lines, the interviews highlight the possibility of consensus among respondents voicing opposing views on the causes of the war. Regardless of ideological positions however, when asked, most respondents said they wished for peace. The author reflects on the potential inherent in that common response for a type of community based on inclusion and cohabitation.","PeriodicalId":29828,"journal":{"name":"Comparative Southeast European Studies","volume":"71 1","pages":"237 - 251"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43729155","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Peter Wegenschimmel: Zombiewerften oder Hungerkünstler? Staatlicher Schiffbau in Ostmitteleuropa nach 1970","authors":"S. Berger","doi":"10.1515/soeu-2022-0074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/soeu-2022-0074","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29828,"journal":{"name":"Comparative Southeast European Studies","volume":"71 1","pages":"261 - 263"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44461586","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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