EURINT 2013 The EU as a model of soft power in the Eastern neighbourhood
Gabriela Carmen Pascariu, Ramona Ţigănaşu, Teodor Moga (eds.)
Editura Universităţii Al. I. Cuza, 2013 | ISBN 978-973-703-892-0
Session I: The EU as regional and global player. Impact on the neighbourhood
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Gabriela BODEA (Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania), Aurelian-Petruș PLOPEANU (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of
Iași, Romania) - China and India, a case study about the mentality highlights in the global equation of change
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Elena CHERNEGA (Odessa National Economic University, Ukraine) - The European Union’s leadership potential
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Mihaela CIUCHINĂ (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași, Romania) - Political impact of Chinese foreign direct investments in the
European Union
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Ekaterina ENTINA (National Research University - Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia) - The European Union vs. BRICS or
working together? a challenge for Russia
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Mircea-Cristian GHENGHEA (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași, Romania) - Challenges of the future – the European Union vs.
the Eurasian Union?
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Ana-Maria GHIMIŞ (National School of Political and Administrative Studies, Romania) - The Eastern frontier security case study:
Romania – Russia
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Roxana HÎNCU (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași, Romania) - Euronews - a promoter of the European Union “quiet diplomacy”
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Fabio INDEO (University of Camerino, Italy) - EU neighbourhood and its "neighbours": EU geopolitical role and strategic ambitions in
Caucasus and Central Asia
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Adrian Liviu IVAN, Ruxandra NUȚ, Claudia MERA (Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania) - The EU-Morocco relations in
the framework of the European neighbourhood policy
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Sebastian-Andrei LABEȘ (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași, Romania) - Rise of BRICS: opportunity or threat for the European
Union?
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Vladlen МAKOUKH (Regional Branch of National Institute for Strategic Studies in Odessa, Ukraine) - East and South dimensions of the
European neighbourhood policy: achievements, current issues and prospects
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Valeriu MIJA, Valentina TEOSA (Moldovan State University, Republic of Moldova) - European cooperative security system and
complex interdependence
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Aurelian-Petruș PLOPEANU (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași, Romania), Gabriela BODEA (Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-
Napoca, Romania) - The change of mentality, a form of externality. The paradigm of islamic sustainable development
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Sabina ŢUCA, Zîna MARCU (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași, Romania) - The European Union and the middle east: an unusual
partnership
Session II: The EU "transformative power" in the neighbourhood
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Gimia-Virginia BUJANCĂ (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași, Romania) - The European soft-power dimension in the Eastern
neighbourhood
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Natalia COLESNIC (Moldovan State University, Faculty of International Relations, Political and Administrative Sciences, Republic of
Moldova) - The role of national parliament in Moldova’s European integration: towards greater democratization
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Adrian-Gabriel CORPĂDEAN (Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania) - EUROPE 2020 – A “soft” agenda for Central and
Eastern Europe?
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Ina CROITORU (Gh. Zane University of Iasi, Romania), Alina TROCIN (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania) - Modalities
of influencing the behavior and formation of Moldavian students by the front office personnel of Iasi universities
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Halil ERDEMİR (Celal Bayar University, Manisa, Turkey), Buğrahan Nuri ERDEMİR (Anadolu Turizm ve Otelcilik Meslek Lisesi,
Manisa, Turkey) - The EU’S soft attraction of Eastern neighbours and its international consequences as in the example of Ukraine
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Roxana HÎNCU (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași, Romania) - The soft power sources of the European Union: challenges and
opportunities
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Maxim MIROSHNIKOV (Tomsk State University, Russia) - Soft power: case of the European Union
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Victor NEGRESCU (Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University, Romania) - EU development cooperation policies towards neighbouring
countries
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Agnes NICOLESCU (European Institute of Romania) - Eastern Partnership roadmap 2012 – 2013 and the European enlargement
strategy: main challenges to the conditionality and differentiated integration
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Sabina STRIMBOVSCHI (National School of Political and Administrative Studies, Romania) - The impact of the EU’s public diplomacy,
as an instrument of soft power, in the context of the Eastern Partnership
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Nicoleta VASILCOVSCHI (Cygnus Scientific Society, Suceava, Romania) - A new economic diplomacy towards the Eastern
partnership states
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Cristina ZETU (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași, Romania) - European identity beyond EU borders: the case of Turkey`s
membership
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Sabina ȚUCA, Zîna MARCU (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași, Romania) - The European Union and Russia – providers and
recipients of stability and security in the European area
Session III: The Eastern Partnership (EaP) looking forward: achievements and future
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Dana BAKO, Ştefana VARVARI (Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania) - Foreign direct investments in the countries from
the Eastern Partnership in the last decade
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Boris CHISTRUGA, Dorina HARCENCO (Academy of Economic Studies of Moldova, Republic of Moldova) - Peculiarities of the
Republic of Moldova trade policy within the negotiations of the Association Agreement with the EU
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Nadiia BUREIKO (Yurii Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University, Ukraine) - The cooperation between the EU and Ukraine in the period
of intensifying integration processes in the post-soviet area
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Cristina-Maria DOGOT (University of Oradea, Romania) - European Union, Russia and ENP/EaP countries
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Oksana DOBRZHANSKA (Yurii Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University, Ukraine) - Guaranty providing by the European Union in the
economy integration in the contest of the Eastern partnership implementation
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Lavinia DOVLEAC, Ileana TACHE (Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania) - Impact of Eastern Partnership on the economic
development of Georgia and Ukraine
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Kristian NIELSEN (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark), Maili VILSON (University of Tartu, Estonia) - The Eastern Partnership –
soft power strategy or policy failure?
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Marcela ȘLUSARCIUC (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași, Romania) - Challenges of the cross-border cooperation programmes at
the Eastern border of the European Union
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Brîndușa-Nicoleta PÎNCU (Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania) - The EU-Ukraine relation dynamics
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Loredana SIMIONOV (Centre for European Studies, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași, Romania) - The Eastern European
neighbourhood – a “bridge” between Russia and the European Union
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Nicolae TODERAŞ, Ana-Maria STĂVARU (National School of Political Studies and Public Administration, Romania) - An evaluation-
based approach for optimising the policy transfer from the EU towards the members of the Eastern Partnership: case study on the
Republic of Moldova
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Ştefana VARVARI, Marius CRISTEA (Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania) - The analysis of the convergence process of
the Eastern Partnership countries
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Grażyna WOJTKOWSKA-ŁODEJ, Ewelina SZCZECH-PIETKIEWICZ (Institute of Foreign Trade and European Studies, Warsaw
School of Economics, Warsaw, Poland) - Consequences of the economic crisis for the European Union and Eastern partnership
Development. Chosen aspects
Session IV: The consequences of the economic crisis on EU's competitiveness
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Roxana-Maria IACOB (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași, Romania) - Economic crisis in EU countries. A quantitative approach
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Ana-Maria AMARIEI (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași, Romania) - Fertility and demographic policies in Europe
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Livia BACIU (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași, Romania), Alina BOTEZAT (Romanian Academy, Romania) - Entrepreneurship,
innovation and public sector performance in the 27 EU countries
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Ludmila BORTA (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași, Romania), The current EU`s preferences on trade agreements
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Sebastian-Florian ENEA, Silvia PALAȘCĂ (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași, Romania) - Business cycle synchronization
channels in the European Union
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Andreea GRĂDINARU, Mihaela IAVORSCHI (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași, Romania) - Euro - the main pillar of the
European Economic and Monetary Union
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Gabor HUNYA (Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies, Austria) - EU Crisis and Neighbourhood Response
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Mihaela IFRIM (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași, Romania) - Capital goods and consumer goods industries during the business
cycle
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Olga KEREKESHA, Y. BARABASH (Odessa National Economic University, Ukraine) - Usage of interactive author’s technology
"destination" to improve the professional competence of future economists
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Mikhael ZVERYAKOV (Odessa National Economic University, Ukraine) - The development of neoliberal theory in the Ukrainian
economy
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Andreea GRĂDINARU (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania), Mihaela IAVORSCHI (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of
Iasi, Romania), The economic crisis: incentive of the European integration or desintegration?
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Nicoleta MIHĂILĂ, Silvia Elena ISACHI (Financial and Monetary Research Centre „Victor Slăvescu”, Bucharest, Romania) -
Dimension of firm performance on the single European market
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Oana-Ramona SOCOLIUC (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași, Romania) - Romania in the EU: an institutionalist approach to poor
economic dynamics
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Clara VOLINTIRU (Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies (ASE), Romania) - Institutions and the labour dynamics: Romania in the
European context
Session V: Regional development and European governance: achievements, obstacles and incentives
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Ana-Maria BERCU (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași, Romania) - Social responsibility as a strategic tool for the European
administrative space
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Lenuţa CARP (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași, Romania) - Challenges in the Central and Eastern European countries during
the globalization and economic crisis
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Laura DIACONU (MAXIM) (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași, Romania) - The impact of the demographic aspects on the
Romanian social-economic environment
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Madalina Stefania DÎRZU (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași, Romania) - Regional convergence and agglomeration in the
European Union: a spatial approach
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Petronela Daniela FERARU (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași, Romania) - Affective migration versus economic migration in
Romania
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Ramona FRUNZĂ (ŢIGĂNAŞU), Gabriela Carmen PASCARIU (Centre for European Studies, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași,
Romania) - The path towards cohesion: reflections on research and development sector in the European Union
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Ciprian IFTIMOAEI (Government of Romania, Romania) - Controversies regarding the security of Romania’s Eastern border in view of
joining the Schengen area
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Claudia Anamaria IOV, Adrian Daniel STAN, Maria Mihaela NISTOR (Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania) - Romania and
the Schengen file: between immigration and human rights
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Daniel JURAVLE, Claudiu ȚIGĂNAȘ (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași, Romania) - Liberalisation of the workforce in the EU and
the impact of remittances on the Romanian labour market
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Kaloyan KOLEV (University of Economics, Varna, Bulgaria) - FDI and regional disparities: convergence or divergence?
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Alexandru MAXIM (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași, Romania) - Assessing Romania’s energy policy in the context of a green
Europe
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Andrei MAXIM (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași, Romania) - The impact of transactional and relational marketing on customer
retention in the Romanian economic environment
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Ada-Iuliana POPESCU (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași, Romania), Christopher R. KELLEY (University of Arkansas, USA) -
Fighting business corruption beyond borders: the European perspective
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Oana Ancuţa STÂNGACIU (“Vasile Alecsandri” University of Bacău, Romania) - The structural changes of the regional export
specialization processes in Romania
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Cătălin ŢACU (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași, Romania) - Eastern „low expats”: mixing „roaming” of human resource
management with host country labour standards within European Union
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Mihaela TOFAN (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași, Romania) - Particularities of the legal framework for the European civil service
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Mara URSACHE (Centre for European Studies, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași, Romania) - Sustainable development – a
challenge for the Eastern neighbourhood states
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Petronela Daniela FERARU (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași, Romania) - The need and efficiency of migration policies in
Romania
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Boris CHISTRUGA, Rodica CRUDU (Academy of Economic Studies of Moldova, Republic of Moldova) - Enhancing ICT and innovation
in EU and Moldova: achievements and impact