PolSci, vol 3, nr 1 – 2003: Reinventing Social Science

The Political Science production after 1989 is, not surprisingly, quite poor. Only five authors published books abroad, though many more chapters in edited books and journals by Western publishers were authored by Romanians. Nuclei of empirical research started to develop in Cluj and Bucharest. New centers, as Iasi and Timisoara, have stepped in more recently. Quantity overrides quality from afar in this first phase, but the large numbers of students abroad make us hope that a catch up, even if belated, is still possible. The survival of this journal, now into its seventh year of existence, though only two under the current name (formerly Foreign Policy Review) is also proof of slow but steady progress.