Romania’s Road to “Normalcy”

Today, there are three parts of the old Soviet bloc—one is democratic, another is wholly authoritarian, and a third “intermediate” group is caught between two worlds. This last should be…

In Romania today, as in Italy twenty years ago, the gradual politicization of anticorruption has come to shape the political scene.

The elections of 2000 reflected the profound disillusionment of the Romanian electorate with the performance of the centrist government of the past four years, rather than a turn away from…