Table Of ContentPost-Communist Romania
Also by Duncan Light
ANGLO-ROMANIAN GEOGRAPHIES (co-editor with Daniela Dumbra˘veanu-Andone)
Also by David Phinnemore
ASSOCIATION: STEPPING-STONE OR ALTERNATIVE TO EU MEMBERSHIP?
EUROPEAN UNION AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITY: A Handbook and
Commentary on the Post-Maastricht Treaties (with Clive H. Church)
Post-Communist Romania
Coming to Terms with Transition
Edited by
Duncan Light
Lecturer in Geography
Liverpool Hope University College
and
David Phinnemore
Lecturer in European Integration
Institute of European Studies
The Queen’s University of Belfast
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David Phinnemore 2001
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Chapter 12 © David Phinnemore 2001
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Post-Communist Romania / edited by Duncan Light and David Phinnemore.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Post-communism—Romania. 2. Romania—Politics and government–
–1989– 3. Romania—Economic policy—1989– 4. Romania—Foreign
relations. I. Light, Duncan, 1965– II. Phinnemore, David.
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Contents
Figures vii
Tables viii
Contributors x
Acknowledgements xiv
Abbreviations xv
Introduction 1
David Phinnemore and Duncan Light
Part I The Legacy of the Past
1 The Revolution after the Revolution 15
Peter Siani-Davies
2 Ghosts from the Past: Successors to the Securitate in
Post-Communist Romania 35
Dennis Deletant
3 Tourism and Romania’s Communist Past: Coming to
Terms with an Unwanted Heritage 59
Duncan Light
Part II Accommodating Pluralism
4 The Ciorbea Government and Democratization:
a Preliminary Assessment 79
Michael Shafir
5 Nationalism and Romanian Political Culture in the 1990s 104
Tom Gallagher
Part III Coming to Terms with the Market
6 The Transition to a Market Economy in Romania
and the Competitiveness of Exports 127
Alan Smith
7 Regional Inequalities and Regional Development
in Post-Communist Romania 150
David Turnock
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vi Contents
8 Agricultural Restructuring in Transylvania in the
Post-Communist Period 175
Nigel Swain and Mária Vincze
9 Economic Transition and Urban Industrial
Employment in Post-Communist Romania 191
Ioan Ianos¸
10 The Challenge of Privatization: the Tourist
Accommodation Industry in Transition 207
Daniela Dumbr˘aveanu
11 Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises and Total
Quality Management: Experiences in Post-Communist
Romania 224
Bogdan Rusu
Part IV Europe and the Challenge of Integration
12 Romania and Euro-Atlantic Integration since 1989: a
Decade of Frustration? 245
David Phinnemore
13 Romania and the Black Sea Economic Cooperation:
Leaning towards the East or the West? 270
Ines Hartwig
Conclusion: the Challenges to Come? 288
Duncan Light and David Phinnemore
Index 296
Figures
7.1 The counties and macro-regions of Romania 151
11.1 The key features of TQM 228
11.2 Characteristics of traditional and process-oriented
managers 230
vii
Tables
3.1 Sites in Bucharest associated with Communism or the
Romanian revolution covered in the four guidebooks 62
4.1 A typology of state-, nation- and democracy-building
strategies in multinational polities 93
6.1 Principal macroeconomic indicators and trade and
payments data, 1990–8 130
6.2 Romanian export performance in the transition in a
comparative context 138
6.3 Commodity structure of Romanian and CEE-4 exports to
EU-15 in 1996 140
6.4 Technology and factor composition of EU-15 imports of
manufactured goods in 1996 (in per cent) 142
6.5 Changes in the resource composition of exports of
manufactured goods from former CMEA economies to
the EU-12 between 1988 and 1994 (in per cent) 144
6.6 Factor content of Romanian exports of manufactured
goods to the EU-12 (ECU m.) 145
6.7 EU imports of manufactured goods from Romania
through outward processing arrangements (ECU m.) 146
7.1 Percentage change in salaried employment,
unemployment and criminality, 1990–5 156
7.2 Provision of services by region 158
7.3 Demographic and population indicators, 1995 160
7.4 Inter-regional migration, 1995 162
7.5 Agricultural production, 1994–5 164
7.6 Characteristics of farm holdings 165
8.1 The structure of Romanian agriculture in 1989 178
viii
Tables ix
8.2 The structure of Romanian agriculture in 1995 179
8.3 Size distribution of private farms in Romania in 1995 180
9.1 The state of privatization in the consumable goods
industry (March 1998) 195
9.2 Urban industrial employment in the period 1990–6 196
9.3 Urbanization levels and urban industrial employment
by county, 1996 202
