1. HOPING BECOMES A PRESIDENT. RHETORIC AND POLITICAL VISION IN BARACK H. OBAMA. Authors: GABRIEL C. GHERASIM.2. THE BETRAYAL OF INTELLECTUALS? REFLECTIONS ON THE CIVIC ALLIANCE PROJECT IN ROMANIA AFTER DECEMBER 1989. Authors: GABRIEL C. GHERASIM.3. BOOK REVIEWS: SERGIU GHERGHINA, SERGIU MIŞCOIU (EDS.), DEMOCRATIZATION AND DEMOCRATIC CONSOLIDATION IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE. Authors: GABRIEL C. GHERASIM.4. THE COGNITIVE DISSONANCE OF ROMANIAN ANTI-AMERICANISM: AMBIVALENCE AND/OR “SLOUGH OF RESENTFUL DESPOND”. Authors: GABRIEL C. GHERASIM.5. GOOD FEDERATION, CONFEDERATION, BAD FEDERATION: WHY THE AMERICAN CONTROVERSY ON THE FEDERAL UNION SHOULD BE A LESSON FOR THE EUROPEAN UNION. Authors: GABRIEL C. GHERASIM.6. FUNDAMENTALS OF DIPLOMATIC PROTOCOL. Authors: GABRIEL C. GHERASIM.7. AN IDEOGRAPHY OF AMERICAN NATIONALISM. Authors: GABRIEL C. GHERASIM.