BOOK REVIEW: SERGIU MIȘCOIU (ED.), “DEMOCRATIC CONSOLIDATION AND EUROPEANIZATION IN ROMANIA”, LONDON: CAMBRIDGE SCHOLAR PUBLISHING, 2021, PP. 169

Abstract

The book reviewed is a proof of the complexities of the actual political context. The result of its cross-sectoral analyses are in line with the Eastern European rhetoric, lacking a democratic system. The book swirls through its five chapters around most of the essential elements of a country in transition. It provides an analysis following a horizontal time axis, a vertical developmental axis, and occasionally deplores the future. The first, introductory chapter anchors the books from a theoretical and factual point of view of a transitory process, while the second analyses the installation of democracy in Romania. The third and the fourth chapter deepen the optic, zooming firstly into the regionalization process, and then in the minority regimes in Romania. The last chapter bounce up, offering the image of limited space of maneuver of Romania in what regards its Foreign Policy, caught up in the almost natural, rationally explainable, conditionality of a small country.