Crisis Management in Transitional Societies: The Romanian Experience

Editors: Iulian Chifu & Britta Ramberg (2007) 

This volume explores the crisis experiences in the republic of Romania. The first chapter in the volume presents CRISMART’s methods and analytical themes for crisis management research. The second chapter provides an overview of the political and institutional context of the crisis management system in Romania. Subsequent chapters are devoted to the analysis of a number of political, social, and economic crises that occurred in Romania during the first post-communist decade.

These chapters include: the diplomatic conflict concerning the Republic of Moldova, the crisis over Romania’s initial support for American exemptions in the International Criminal Court, allegations of bribes and government corruption, the shortage of pharmaceutical drugs which paralyzed the Romanian healthcare system, protests to cutbacks in subsidies to the mining sector, the Government’s management of increased drug trafficking and consumption, the challenges embarked by the new market economy and the lack of consumer confidence in the National Fund for Investments, and the bombing of a high school largely attended by children of the political elite.

This volume concludes with a discussion of the main chapter findings and identifies a number of patterns associated with crisis development and crisis management in transitional countries more generally and in Romania in particular during its first post-communist decade.

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