IULIU MANIU 1-3
061071 Bucuresti
Romania
- International/Cultural relations
The "Ion I. C. Brătianu" Institute of Political Sciences and International Relations (ISPRI) of the Romanian Academy was founded in January 1990 under the name of the Institute of Social Theory and Political Science, with the main objective of developing scientific research in the field of social philosophy and political sciences. The institute initially undertook research on the fundamental political changes in Central and Eastern Europe, including Romania.
The main activities of ISPRI, organized in two departments and two laboratories, consist in carrying out fundamental research in the following directions: political sciences (modern and contemporary political theories, history of political ideas, political philosophy, sociology and political communication); international relations (the study of Euro-Atlantic integration processes on all levels – political, economic, strategic, identity, social; the issue of Romanians everywhere; the extended Black Sea region and the Balkan region; the realization of the new European architecture and the role of NATO and the EU within the system of international relations, global developments with regional impact, etc.; sociology and geopolitics of religions and analysis of information war and strategic communication.
ISPRI edits and prints two of its own journals: Journal of Political Science and International Relations (www.revista.ispri.ro) and Romanian Journal of Political Science and International Relations (www.journal.ispri.ro). These two magazines continue, since 2004, the series of the Revue de Teorie Socială and the Revue Roumaine de Théorie Sociale in new formats and with an enriched theme. ISPRI has its own Publishing House accredited by CNCSIS, established by the Decision of the Ministry of Culture no. 1835 of February 25, 1993 (www.librarie.ispri.ro). ISPRI has a rich Library containing 300,000 titles (approximately one million volumes) in the field of socio-human and political sciences.