Purpose The purpose of this practice-oriented paper is to look at a recent, late-phase development in public administration (PA) reform in Romania, specifically the drafting of the recently adopted national Strategy on Strengthening the Efficiency of Public Administration (2014-2020). In...

The reform of civil–military relations and the establishment of a democratic control of Armed Forces were important concerns for the Romanian transition, after 1989. The main reasons were related with a misperception that the military were supporters of Ceausescu's dictatorship, their...

Romania has experienced a dramatic transition, after 1989, starting from one of the fiercest communist regimes and trying to build a democratic regime and to join the Western institutions, such as NATO and EU. The issue of democratisation of civil–military relations ranked high on the reform...