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 2004 elections saw the defeat of the former communists who ruled Romania for most of the period since the fall of communism. Will the country's new, democratic, and pro-European…