| Summary of Panel Discussions |
(last update Tuesday, May 30th 12:00)
Panel
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Globalization and Development Globalization
Culture and Identity
Perspectives on Globalization
Panelists
Dorina GUTU (Chair, National School of Political Studies and Public Administration, Romania)
Mihaela VLĂSCEANU (National School of Political Studies and Public Administration, Romania)
Norman FAIRCLOUGH (Lancaster University, UK)
Paul DOBRESCU (National School of Political Studies and Public Administration, Romania)
Christopher WALSCH (Eszterházy Károly College, Hungary)
Grigore GEORGIU, Alexandru CÂRLAN (National School of Political Studies and Public Administration, Romania)
Dana POPESCU-JOURDY, Valérie COLOMB (Lyon 2, France)
Dan LAZEA (West University of Timisoara, Romania)
Constantin SCHIFIRNEŢ (National School of Political Studies and Public Administration, Romania)
Radu-Cristian PETCU (University of Craiova, Romania)
Mălina Iona CIOCEA (National School of Political Studies and Public Administration, Romania)
Ştefan STANCIU (National School of Political Studies and Public Administration, Romania)
Eugenia UDANGIU (University of Craiova, Romania)
Summary
The participants have addressed topics such as globalization and development,
culture, identity, Europeanisation etc. Several papers presented original comparative
perspectives and case studies. More precisely, the panel was opened by Mr.
Normal Fairclough with few words about strategy and discourse in globalization
and development. His paper was focused upon the globalization strategy of globalism.
He approached the issue from an analytical perspective and had a semiotic point
of entry to research concerns such as relations between discourse and non-discursive
elements.
The second speaker was Christopher WALSCH that presented the paper “Development
and development policy in globalizing capitalism. East Central Europe in comparative
perspective.” He had an economic historian’s perspective on development
and study cases on South Korea and Ireland. The final part of his presentation
was focused on Central and east European countries and the possibility
that South Korea and Ireland to serve as patterns of catching up for the economy
of European countries.
Paul DOBRESCU talked about innovation as the contemporary driver of global
competitiveness and examined the role of it and the globalization of innovation.
Romania’s national priorities, as stated in the National Development
Plan, were analyzed against the competitiveness criteria from the Global Competitiveness
Report 2006-2007. the main focus was put on the urge of having an innovation
strategy at EU level.
Alexandru CARLAN presented the paper “The Cultural Dimension of European
Integration”. The paper addressed the question on how to build a cultural
identity for EU and how culture can create a sense of community, stressing
the need for a conjunctive paradigm.
Malina CIOCEA addressed the issue of securing national identity in a globalizing
world. Her paper referred to the pattern of securing the identity of a community.
How can national security can be securitized? She discussed about the place
of the Romanian Value System within the European System and possible solutions
for integration.
The paper “The European Capital of Culture: a Project of Local Development
in European Framework - Internet Site”, delivered by Dana POPESCU-JOURDY,
presented a case study on the project of European Cultural Capital, as part
of the effort to build the European identity. A comparison was made between
this year’s capital of culture, Sibiu, and the proposals for 2013 from
France, from the perspective of discourse of actors involved. The project supposed
decentralized actions, competences and techniques at local and symbolical centralization
at European level.
Dan LAZEA presented the paper “Religion, secularization and belief in
Western Postmodern societies and talked aboiut the revival of religion studies
in Europe in the last years. He focused on the meanings this issue has on our
society.
Radu Cristian PETCU had the paper “Dimensions of Identity and Culture
in the Dialectics of the Global-Local Relationship. EU Citizenship – a
Form of Policy Convergence?” the paper approached the issue of the process
of globalization and its challenges on cultural identity. He asked whether
the EU is a patterned alternative to globalization or a reactive model of globalization
and reached the conclusion that the EU policy on citizenship may not necessarily
fit into a model of cultural policy convergence if based on Habermas’s
model.
Eugenia UDANGIU talked about a new term, glocalization, in her paper “Is
Glocalisation a Concept for the Future?”. She discussed about the
origins of the concept, introduced to describe the way global process are understood
by people using local cultural categories. The paper approached the idea of
reflexive modernity as a space of “openness” and concluded that
a glocalization expresses a double condition, meant to ensure the survival
of a system with its own identity within a constantly mutable world.
Mirela OPREA presented the paper “From socialist Developing Country to
Donor. Development Discourse in Romania” and focused on Romania’s
attempt to renew and Europeanize its development discourse. She showed that
the ideological power of EU in the field of development cooperation is challenged
by Eastern European countries’s historical experiences with the countries
from the third world.
The panel was closed with a presentation delivered
by Mihaela VLASCEANU on polarities and complementarities in globalization process.
She stressed the importance of seeing globalization in terms of increased spatial
and economic interdependencies, and made references to the process of Europeanisation
and Romania’s situation.
Globalization and communication
Panelists
Mihaela Alexandra IONESCU (Chair, National School of Political Studies and Public Administration, Romania)
Odile RIONDET (Université de Haute-Alsace, France)
Camelia BECIU (Romanian Academy, Romania)
Luminiţa NICOLESCU, Valentin COJANU, Alina Irina POPESCU, Alina DRǍGHICI (Academy of Economic Studies, Romania)
Nicoleta CORBU (National School of Political Studies and Public Administration, Romania)
Dorina GUŢU (National School of Political Studies and Public Administration, Romania)
Diana-Maria CISMARU (National School of Political Studies and Public Administration, Romania)
Irina STĂNCIUGELU (National School of Political Studies and Public Administration, Romania)
Summary
The panellists stressed the importance of the problems arisen
from globalization and communication. They talked about the notion of information
society inclusively in European international texts, about risk communication
and risk perception. They also debated the role of weblogs in the development
of the Romanian public space, new media and the globalization of political
communication, publisfera between local and global.
Camelia BECIU tackled the theme Rejection of the European Constitutional Treaty
and the Romanian Media.
Odile RIONDET made an analysis of some international texts spreading the information
society, which will be a knowledge society, even an inclusive society.
Nicoleta CORBU explained the semiotics notion of publisfera, a notion which
is related to wide problems of globalization.
Dorina GUTU intended to explore the impact of new media on political communication,
in particular in a globalized society. She presented examples of political
blogs from various democratic and non-democratic countries in order to prove
the globalization of new media.
The goal of Diana CISMARU’ paper was to explain the changes induced in
the Romanian public space by the development of weblogs.
Irina STANCIUGELU proposed a new theoretical framework for the risk communication
so as to elucidate the gap referring to the risk perception between experts
and the general public.
Luminita NICOLESCU talked about nation brand; she analyzed Fabulos Spirit Campaign.
Mihaela
Alexandra IONESCU tackled the problem of corporate culture, drawing the participants’ attention
to advantages and disadvantages in managing the cultural interferation, starting
from three companies types.
Globalization and European integration
Globalization and Education
Project Management as a Macroeconomic Strategy
of Development
Panelists
Alina BÂRGĂOANU (Chair, National School of Political Studies and Public Administration, Romania)
Pawel KRZYSIEK (The Szczecin University, Poland)
Mircea Teodor MANIU (Babes-Bolyai University, Romania)
Valeriu FRUNZARU, Loredana IVAN (National School of Political Studies and Public Administration, Romania)
Florina PÎNZARU (National School of Political Studies and Public Administration, Romania)
Constantin BRĂTIANU (Academy of Economic Studies, Romania)
Remus PRICOPIE (National School of Political Studies and Public Administration, Romania)
Ionela JIANU (Academy of Economic Studies, UNESCO Chair for Business Administration, Romania)
Roland GAREIS (Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Austria)
Loredana CĂLINESCU (National School of Political Studies and Public Administration, Romania)
Elena NEGREA (National School of Political Studies and Public Administration, Romania)
Summary
The aim of Pawel KRZYSIEK’s presentation was to demonstrate
the EU activity at these levels and their interdependence in seeking a truly
European Public Sphere which, as the key element in creating a European Identity,
is Europe’s answer to cultural globalization.
Mircea Teodor MANIU focused on some arguments pleading for the fact that EU
regionalism is a major political, administrative, social and economic challenge
for the decades to come, and this situation will probably have a determined
impact beyond the Union’s borders.
Valeriu FRUNZARU and Loredana IVAN analyzed the labor policy within EU
and the gender employment disparities rates. They showed that in Romania, as
a part of a group of ex-communist countries (Bulgaria, Slovakia, Poland and
Hungary), the female employment rate is around 50%, compared to the European
2010 goal, minimum 60%.
Florina PÎNZARU analyzed how Romanians refer to the European values,
if they already know the euro and if they think that the single currency influences
the common identity. The results of her study support the idea that a good
national communication strategy is to be considered at the moment of the adoption
of the euro, for technical and emotional reasons.
Roland GAREIS presented the results of a research programme: project orientation
[international] from 2005 to 2007, performed by The PROJEKTMANAGEMENT GROUP
of the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Austria.
It was the objective of the research programme to analyze and benchmark about
250 project-oriented companies in about 10 project-oriented nations by applying
the maturity models “project-oriented company mature” and “project-oriented
nation mature”.
The maturities for project and programme management, for project portfolio
management, for the organizational design and the personnel management of the
project-oriented company, and for process management were analyzed. The results
gained from Austria, Finland, Germany, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, South
Africa are the basis to further develop the project-oriented companies, industries,
and nations.
Alina BÂRGĂOANU started from the premise that success in the implementation
of post-accession funds depends on two factors: the quality of the absorption
infrastructure, which was created mainly by means of the pre-accession instruments,
and the quality of the development priorities.
Consequently, the analysis of Romania’s preparedness for the implementation
of post-accession funds is carried out at two levels: first, an assessment
of the implementation of pre-accession programs, their results in terms of
creating the infrastructure for the absorption of Structural Instruments and
second, an assessment of Romania’s national priorities as stated in its
2007– 2013 National Development Plan. The four possible situations emerging
from crossing the two factors are presented: weak infrastructure, poor priorities;
weak infrastructure, good priorities; strong infrastructure, poor priorities;
strong infrastructure, good priorities. Her analysis showed that spending the
money on poor priorities may prove to be the most costly situation, since it
blurs efforts toward sustainable development.
Loredana CĂLINESCU sustained that the development of successful European
projects is the main condition for Romania to implement the Regional Policy
of the European Union.
Elena NEGREA explored the possibility of building a lexicon that will define
and unify the PM terminology and describe the relevant semantic relations.
A complete and widely accepted PM terminology will contribute to the transition
from training to education.
Constantin BRĂTIANU presented some of the main characteristics of the
new university
governance paradigm in Japan.
Remus PRICOPIE analyzed the transformations taking place in the tertiary education
system all over the world and the impact of these changes on the Romanian universities.
He examined to what extent the Romanian academic institutions are prepared
to face the large-scale changes such as globalization and the emergence of
the knowledge society.
Ionela JIANU presented an analysis
of the major trends in university management with respect to intellectual capital
evaluation and reporting.