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Communication as a Key Performance Indicator in Employer Branding in the Context of the Social Economy-A Quantitative Study
(MDPI, 2024-04) Heide, Michael; Prodan, Silvana; Lăzăroiu, George; Kreis-Engelhardt, Barbara; Ghigiu, Alexandru Mihai
Performance measurement refers to the systematic evaluation and analysis of the performance and results of business processes, initiatives, or strategies. This study discusses the crucial role of communication using signaling theory in employer branding in the context of the social economy organization (SEO). The aim is to measure employee satisfaction in concrete terms and to determine the status quo of the communication culture of the organization under investigation in order to develop an employer branding strategy based on the results. The authors use an employee survey as a quantitative research method and limit the data collection to the EU member state of Germany considering the research background. The results provide insights into the specific communication policy in relation to employer branding. The focus here is on (digital) communication. Organizations need to understand how communication strategies directly influence the perception of the employer brand in the social economy. Furthermore, practical implications are derived in order to increase employer attractiveness. Concrete recommendations of action for SEOs should help them be successful in the competition for qualified specialists and talent.
CYBER-SECURITIZATION IN LIGHT OF THE SNOWDEN REVELATIONS: EFFECTS ON INSTITUTIONAL REFORM IN THE US AND EU
(Department of International Relations and European Integration of the National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, 2025) Moghior, Cosmina
This article examines the securitization of cybersecurity through a discourse analysis of the Snowden revelations. Using a critical discourse analysis approach, this study explores the language and narratives used by policymakers and other stakeholders in the cybersecurity field to construct and frame cybersecurity threats and responses. The article argues that the securitization of cybersecurity is a complex and multifaceted process that is shaped by a range of social, cultural, and political factors. Through a detailed analysis of official documents, speeches, and media reports, this study reveals the ways in which the Snowden revelations were framed and constructed as a security threat, and how this framing has shaped the development of cybersecurity governance in the US and EU. The article contributes to a more nuanced understanding of the securitization of cybersecurity and highlights the importance of discourse analysis in studying this critical field.
Cyberattacks and the erosion of state sovereignty
(Editura Universitatii din Oradea, 2024) Costea, Ana Maria; Caradaică, Mihail
This paper will tackle the issue of cyberattacks and the Erosion of State Sovereignty as cyberattacks have become a significant challenge to state sovereignty in the 21st century, threatening traditional concept of territorial control as well as the modern reliance on digital infrastructure. As technology evolved, cyberattacks developed the ability to bypass national borders and undermine state authority, creating a significant impact on how sovereignty is understood and protected. Considering the theoretical contribution of Carl von Clausewitz on new forms of warfare and Joseph Nye Jr.'s on cyber deterrence, the aim of this paper is to analyze examples such as WannaCry, Stuxnet, SolarWinds, and Heartbleed and to reveal the extent to which cyber operations can erode state sovereignty and challenge international norms.
FULL-SPECTRUM WARFARE-FROM BROADENING THE INSTRUMENTS TO THINKING THE UNTHINKABLE-.
(Romanian Military Thinking, 2025) Chifu, Iulian; Grigore, Cosmin
Full-spectrum warfare has emerged as a new concept, occupying a space between hybrid, asymmetrical, and irregular warfare, although it is not fully aggregate in the epistemological realm. Present in several military strategies and documents from Australia, the USA, Russia, and China, it migrated into a family of concepts related to full-spectrum dominance, full-spectrum instruments or full-spectrum defence. The most important part of its content is linked to surprise and unexpected evolution as well as to creative and innovative elements in the family of thinking the unthinkable and unknown unknowns. We are conducting integrated research on the concept and establishing an operative definition based, also, on a number of concrete applications in the real operations developed by Israel, Ukraine, Russia, USA nowadays. The methodology used in this approach includes an epistemological debate and the identification of the unique features that gave broad spectrum warfare its specific and added value, as well as a full encyclopaedic debate on the significance of the concept in question.
Greenland: Trump's Special Operation
(European Institute of Romania, 2026-06-18) Anglitoiu, George
The issue of Greenland and the US militant discourse about the future of the region have been of great interest in the last years. This hasty and unforeseen evolution of events has raised a number of significant questions about the relations between the US (the preeminent Western power in the international system) and the largest island on Earth, which has the lowest population per surface ratio, but plenty of untapped resources of fresh water, minerals, carbon and green energy, an unrestricted panorama of the Arctic lights, pristine ice coastline and the potential for unchecked military multirole bases with strategic positioning. Drawing on a comparative historical analysis, this article argues that Greenland is managed with hard-power tools by the current US administration. Our findings show that this approach is part of the great power competition, where claims of historical and national security reasons are used to take over territories and population, regardless of the international law and the will of the local people. We also underline the potentially divisive policy implications for NATO and the EU.
M-Learning in The Coronavirus Era
(Faculty of History and Political Science, „Ovidius” University of Constanta, 2021-02-15) Negrescu, Victor; Caradaică, Mihail
M-learning solutions (mobile Massive Open Online Courses – MOOCs) are key elements in a world affected by the coronavirus pandemic, considering that more than half of the world’s student population was forced to stay at home during this crisis. Mobile MOOCs enable exchanges of information by using mobile devices without needing direct interaction. They have the potential to help users limit the risks and enable organizations, students and professors to continue their activities. The m-learning applications gained a lot of ground in the current context and can be seen significantly in areas such as online teaching, classroom management, language learning, and many more. In practice, the implementation of the mobile MOOCs adapted to the current challenges need to correspond to several criteria and recommendations identified by experts, in order to be viable on a large scale. This paper analyses the security issues related to the most used m-learning solutions in the current coronavirus pandemic by examining the existing empirical researches that provide a valuable insight into the requirements surrounding these applications. The findings of the study reveal that the m-learning solutions available today enable us to overcome one of the ever-growing challenges of our time, and it is essential to comprehensively evaluate them in order to enable future developers to create new and better secured mobile MOOCs adapted to the current needs.
NATO : strategic lessons from the Russian invasion of Ukraine
(Inter-University Center for Terrorism Studies, Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, 2022-07) Ionescu, Mihail
Realist and Constructivist Interpretations and Representations of the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War: As an Event and as a Process
(MDPI, 2025) Simons, Greg; Chifu, Iulian
The aim of this article is to analyze communications from the presidential and security council websites on the interpretations and representations of the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War to understand how people, places, and events were interpreted and represented in terms of realism and constructivism in the geopolitics of the conflict to global audiences. Critical discourse analysis is used as a methodology for highlighting and making sense of texts in terms of the intangible elements of power relations, reputation and brand of the actors, relative balance of ethics and morality of the belligerents, value judgements, and predictions of the war’s outcome. There is a clear tendency to engage in what Sun Tsu and von Clausewitz characterize as the politics of war using brand and reputation management to global audiences of a good and virtuous self-image versus a projected ruthless opponent lacking virtue. This is an exploratory paper with an indicative result, and several apparent trends emerge. One observation suggests that the actor that is militarily weaker tends to communicate more often to shape the political variables that influence the conduct of war. The role of constructivist rhetoric is being used to justify and legitimize realist-oriented policy and practice in war.
STRATEGIC CHAOS THEORY: A NEW FRAMEWORK FOR INTERPRETING INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS IN THE ERA OF GLOBAL DISORDER
(Department of International Relations and European Integration of the National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, 2025) Băcanu Vasile, Mirela
This article proposes the concept of ‘strategic chaos’ as an emerging analytical perspective in the study of contemporary international relations. Inspired by chaos theory from the natural sciences and complex systems thinking (Lorenz, Prigogine, Morin), the paper investigates how instability is deliberately cultivated by various state and non-state actors as a geopolitical tool. By integrating ideas from classical theories of international relations (realism, liberalism, constructivism) with elements of complexity theory, the proposed approach outlines a complementary lens to understand phenomena such as frozen conflicts, recurrent crises, information warfare or strategic ambiguity. Case studies on Russia, China, the United States, and other actors such as ISIS or North Korea demonstrate that instability can become a strategic end in itself—not merely a secondary outcome of conflict. The concept of strategic chaos thus brings into focus the possibility that unpredictability and disorder may not only be tolerated but actively exploited in the context of an increasingly fragmented, multipolar, and volatile international system

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