This publication also contains the papers of the PhD Candidates, National School of Political and Administrative Studies, Bucharest, Romania, beneficiaries of the “Doctoral Scholarships for a Sustainable Society”, project co-financed by the European Union through the European Social Fund, Sectoral Operational Programme Human Resources Development 2007-2013. CONTENTS Mircea BRIE, István POLGÁR, Florentina CHIRODEA, Cultural Identity, Diversity and European Integration. Introductory Study ; I. IDENTITY AND ELEMENTS OF ANTHROPOLOGY IN THE EUROPEAN SPACE ; Roxana Maria DASCĂLU, Insights Into the Concept of European Identity ; Horia MOAŞA, Voice and Silence in Relation to Identity ; Andreea MOLOCEA,To See Things in Another Perspective: Feminist Influence in Epistemology, a New Way of Regarding Social and Political Science ; Ileana SĂDEAN, Anthropological Representations of the Foreign Rural Development Model “Leader” in Romania ; II. EDUCATION AND COMMUNICATION ; Ioana CIUCANU, Making Diversity Work in European Higher Education the Interplay Between Performance and Diversification ; Mirela VLASCEANU, Impact of Quality-Based Funding in Romanian Higher Education: 1999-2010 ; Andra-Maria ROESCU , Studying Causal Inference in Political Science. The Case of Experiments ; Paul APARASCHIVEI , Political Communication in Romania from a New Perspective: the Online Voter; Andreea Elena CÂRSTEA , Mass Media and the Reconfiguration of the Public Sphere ; III. EUROPEAN UNION ZONE – THE INSTITUTIONAL DIMENSION ; Bogdan BERCEANU, The Dimension of Emerging Institutions in the European Union Member States ; Adina MARINCEA, Who are the Olympians? A Cross-Country Analysis of People’s Trust in the EU ; Monica OPROIU, Case-Study in Third-Party Intervention: the EU Mediation in the Russia-Georgia War of August 2008 ; Vasile ROTARU, The Neo-Finlandization – a Theoretical Review ; IV. EUROPEAN POLICIES AND MANAGEMENT MODELS ; Vicenţia Georgiana DUŢESCU,Policy Cohesion of the European Union a Perspective on the Management Authority for the ...