Studia Politica. Romanian Political Science Review

the end of the cold war, and the extinction of communism both as an ideology and a practice of government, not only have made possible an unparalleled experiment in building a democratic order in central and eastern europe, but have opened up a most extraordinary intellectual opportunity: to understand, compare and eventually appraise what had previously been neither understandable nor comparable. studia politica. romanian political science review was established in the realization that the problems and concerns of both new and old democracies are beginning to converge. the journal fosters the work of the first generations of romanian political scientists permeated by a sense of critical engagement with european and american intellectual and political traditions that inspired and explained the modern notions of democracy, pluralism, political liberty, individual freedom, and civil rights