This dissertation examines how new European Union (EU) member states manage and implement European Cohesion Policy (CP). It assess the administrative and political factors that might explain the variation in the financial absorption of Structural Funds (SF), with a specific focu…
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Processes and patterns of migration on a global scale have changed in profound ways during the last two decades (Smith and King, 2012). In the European context, this is exemplified by transformations to the traditional mobility patterns from East to West Europe (Koser and Lutz, …
My research on Victor Brauner’s work in the first two decades of his affiliation with the Surrealist group in Paris re-establishes the role played by the Romanian Jewish artist in the definition of automatic Surrealist procedures of painting and mixed-technique objects that reli…
The purpose of this thesis is to draw some parallels between the largely ignored, and usually vilified national cultures of the countries making up the so-called “socialist bloc” and to ask in what way the common cultural practices adopted by a large number of them during the ha…
This study merges the historical record with survivor testimony to put the turning point of Romania's war against the Jews, the pogrom in Iasi, in context both with respect to what preceded it and its aftermath. The introduction explains both how and why the survivor depositions…
This work is a parallel study of two different attempts to oppose Ottoman expansion in Southeastern Europe during the fifteenth century: George Castriota Scanderbeg in Albania and Prince Vlad III, the historic Dracula, in Wallachia. The careers of each of these men are presented…
This comparative study maps the factors that influence the operation of Eastern Europe post-communist local government. A comparison of four Romanian county councils over the 1996–1999 period revealed important differences in the way they conducted their internal affairs, formul…
This study, using qualitative inquiry, explores the perceptions of Romanian theology students using primarily oral-based teaching methods, such as Bible storying and drama. The use of such methods in theological education is well-documented among low literate cultures, yet less …
More than 2 billion people (out of 7.8 billion globally) do not have access to clean drinking water; 785 million cannot get water services. Without potable water, they face ill health, food insecurity, conflict, and migration. While water for drinking and sanitation is a fundame…
Jewish migration from Romania began in mid-1900, and, owing to its particular political and temporal context, from its outset until early 1903 this migration commanded significant attention and interventions from the governments of the United States and Canada and from the organ…
Cette thèse a deux objectifs: celui de décrire les pratiques juridiques en Valachie au XVIIe siècle—en se concentrant sur celles qui concernent la transmission du patrimoine, qui ont laissé le plus de traces documentaires; et celui de comprendre comment ces pratiques juridiques …
At the end of the World War II George Enescu dominated the international scene as a violin virtuoso. The lyrical tragedy Oedipus in four acts and six scenes, on a libretto by Edmond Fleg and finalized in 1932, is the only Romanian opera to achieve international recognition. Oedi…
This political biography of Ana Pauker, Communist leader (1944-52) and Foreign Minister (1947-52) of Romania, is based on both archival documents and oral histories of participants and witnesses. It examines the conventional wisdom of Romanian Communist history, which consistent…
How does the European Union (EU)'s political membership conditionality induce compliance? Formally launched at the EU's 1993 Copenhagen Summit, conditionality requires EU candidates to adopt the political criteria known as "stability of institutions guaranteeing democracy, the r…
This thesis studies the process of intellectual, cultural, and political osmosis between Greeks and Romanians in the pre-modern period mainly by examining crucial aspects of early Modern Greek moral and political literature, as it was cultivated in Wallachia in the late seventee…
The Intellectual Property Rights is one of the key issues of the global economy as knowledge has become a key element in international trade. As the process of digitalization spreads, Software Intellectual Property Rights (SIPR) have become essential to the development of comput…