ROMANIAN JOURNAL OF
SOCIOLOGICAL STUDIES
Nos 2 • 2023
CONTENTS
MIHAI NAE, China’s great strategy. The Western balancing and the Belt and Road
Initiative
LAURA-NICOLETA CREȚU, ALEXIA-THEODORA TOMOȘOIU, The grand strategy
of the European Union. From the European Security strategy to the 2016 EU global
strategy
ALIN MIHĂIȚĂ GOGA, Possible Romanian exceptionalism at the Black Sea, in a real EU
foreign policy and common security strategy
ANGELICA HELENA MARINESCU, Interview with Professor Doctor Ilie Bădescu,
Director of the Institute of Sociology, Romanian Academy. Cultural resistance and
sociological studies during the communist regime in Romania. Theoretical
perspectives for a spiritual sociology, i.e. the noology
BOOK REVIEW
ILIE BĂDESCU AND JOSEPH LIVNI, 2023. A Civil Society with No Hierarchy. The
Covenantal Societal Model, Lexington Books: Lanham, Boulder, New York, London