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This paper investigates the economic and political management of change, with a view towards increasing administrative performance so as to increase government performance and security. Change is seen as a staple of the post-1989 age of globalized “chaotic changes and uncertainties,” where simply reconciling bureaucracy with democracy can no longer be sufficient for any administration. On the other hand, although globalization seems to have had a “flattening,” i.e. homogenizing, effect on civil society, the management of local market and administrative challenges can only be successfully carried out by thoroughly considering local specifics, not by importing foreign methods or solutions. To illustrate, the authors present the case of Romania, detailing its administrative evolution and difficulties from national state inception to European integration and beyond (ultimately from a normative to a managerial character), pointing out past errors and future recommendations.

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  1. 1.

    Davis (2007).

  2. 2.

    Friedman (2005).

  3. 3.

    Friedman (1999); Fukuyama (2006); Ōmae (1990).

  4. 4.

    Korten (2001); Kaplan (2000).

  5. 5.

    Lewin (1992).

  6. 6.

    Weick and Sutcliffe (2001).

  7. 7.

    Prigogine and Stengers (1997).

  8. 8.

    Handy (1989).

  9. 9.

    Priesmeyer (1992).

  10. 10.

    Morgan (2006); Handy (1989); Murphy (1996); Farazmand (2003, pp. 339–372).

  11. 11.

    Goetz (2001, pp. 1032–1051).

  12. 12.

    Zamfir (2004); Horga (2004).

  13. 13.

    Layne (2006, pp. 7–41).

  14. 14.

    Crăciun (2008).

  15. 15.

    Elgin (1977, pp. 337–349).

  16. 16.

    Niskanen (1971).

  17. 17.

    Waldo (1980).

  18. 18.

    Rogers et al. (2006); Kiel (1994); Murphy (1996); Nonaka (1988, pp. 57–73).

  19. 19.

    Lewin (1992); Prigogine and Stengers (1997).

  20. 20.

    Peters (2001).

  21. 21.

    Capra (1982); Weick and Sutcliffe (2001); Jantsch (1980).

  22. 22.

    Ogilvy (2002).

  23. 23.

    Jantsch (1980).

  24. 24.

    Hoffmann (2006); Johnson (2006).

  25. 25.

    Ferguson (2004); Friedman (2005).

  26. 26.

    Wolf (2004, p. 18).

  27. 27.

    Korten (2001); Brecher (1994).

  28. 28.

    Johnson (2006).

  29. 29.

    Dugger (1989).

  30. 30.

    Korten (2001); Rogers et al. (2006)

  31. 31.

    Agnew (2005).

  32. 32.

    Dugger (1989).

  33. 33.

    Goetz (2001).

  34. 34.

    Gabel and Whitten (1997, pp. 81–96).

  35. 35.

    Bache (2010, pp. 1–12).

  36. 36.

    Hitchins (1996).

  37. 37.

    Huntington (1996).

  38. 38.

    Meyer-Sahling and European University Institute Max Weber Programme (2008).

  39. 39.

    Kornai and Oxford University Press (1992, p. 109).

  40. 40.

    Kornai and Oxford University Press (1992, p. 136).

  41. 41.

    Giosan (2008).

  42. 42.

    Meyer-Sahling and European University Institute Max Weber Programme (2008).

  43. 43.

    Nunberg (1999); Verheijen and NISPAcee (2001).

  44. 44.

    Meyer-Sahling and European University Institute Max Weber Programme (2008).

  45. 45.

    Goetz (2001); Meyer-Sahling and European University Institute Max Weber Programme (2008); Dimitrov (2005).

  46. 46.

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and Support for Improvement in Governance and Management in Central and Eastern European Countries (1998, pp. 168–179).

  47. 47.

    Dimitrova (2002, pp. 171–90); Grabbe (2002).

  48. 48.

    Meyer-Sahling (2006, pp. 274–297); O’Dwyer (2002).

  49. 49.

    Negrescu (2002); Giosan (2008).

  50. 50.

    Păunescu (2006, 2008); Mărginean (2001).

  51. 51.

    Dobre (2010, pp. 59–70).

  52. 52.

    Dobre (2010).

  53. 53.

    Matei and Dogaru (2011); Peterson (2008, pp. 247–269).

  54. 54.

    Romania (1995, p. 1), paragraph 3.

  55. 55.

    Munteanu (2006); Crăciun and Collins (2008).

  56. 56.

    Lasswell (1951); Hogwood (2000).

  57. 57.

    Dye (1995).

  58. 58.

    Bărbulescu (2001); Bărbulescu (2005); Birzea (2001); Birzea (2005); Morar (2002, pp. 77–113).

  59. 59.

    Presidency of the European Council Conclusions, Copenhagen, 1993 (1993).

  60. 60.

    Morar (2002).

  61. 61.

    Morar (2002).

  62. 62.

    Bădescu (2008).

  63. 63.

    The Romanian Constitution of 2003, Article 120, paragraph 1

  64. 64.

    Bondar (n. d.); Munteanu (2006); The decentralization of public services: A never-ending story? (2008).

  65. 65.

    Matei and Matei (2010).

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Vaduva, S., Filip, P. (2015). Governmental Administration and the Security of Romania in a Global Context. In: Vaduva, S., Thomas, A. (eds) Geopolitics, Development, and National Security. SpringerBriefs in Political Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12685-2_1

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