General Instructions for Dissertation Submission:

Responsibility of the Student:

1. An Application for dissertation submission must be completed with the Secretariat of the Department of International Relations and European Integration or on-line at www.dri@snspa.ro, early in the semester of graduation.

2. Program requirements, course credits, and deferred credits normally will have been completed, with the exception of thesis/dissertation credits, before Application submission.

3. The Application should contain the name of the student, the title of the dissertation and the name of the professor that accepted to coordinate your work.
   - Obtain acceptance from a professor and coordinate with him the schedule of dissertation preparation.
   - Verify with the Secretariat the deadline dates for submission of the final edited copy of your dissertation and for the final examination.

4. Obtain two review papers from two professors within the Department (one of which should be your dissertation coordinator) prior to submitting the dissertation.

5. Determine how many additional copies are required within the department.

6. Once the dissertation is accepted by the Department, submit the final bound copies of the dissertation and the required forms to the Secretariat of the Department.

7. Pass the scheduled final examination.

8. Orally defend your dissertation.

Students are advised to check with their respective coordinating professors or with the Secretariat for further details.

Responsibility of the Department of International Relations

1. Review preliminary copy of dissertation.

2. Accept final, flawless, bound copy of dissertation.

3. Certify the conditions for final certification of the master degree.

4. Schedule the final exam.

5. Schedule a commission for the oral defence of the dissertations.

Broad Subjects for Master Dissertation

1. Strategic Perspectives of the International Security Environment.

2. Roles of the International Organizations and Regional Security Initiatives in the Euro – Atlantic Security Architecture.

3. Roles of NATO’s Main Policies, Organization and Decision Making in Regional and Global Security Environment.

4. Significance of NATO’s Military Structure for the Security Challenges of the 21^st Century.

5. NATO’s Transformation and Adaptation to a Changing World.

6. Regions of Geostrategic Importance for NATO

7. Democratic Management of the Security Sector

8. Crisis Management

List of Professors Available to Coordinate Dissertations

Dissertation Editing:

Paper type and size: use only white paper of 80g/m² weight minimum, A4 (210 x 297 mm in size)

Word processing:

• The dissertation must be a flawless word-processed copy (no strikes through, corrections or other inclusions in the text are accepted).
• Every page of the document must be printed single-sided.
• Most 12-point fonts equivalent to Microsoft Word are acceptable for text and 10-point font for footnotes and subscripts (preferable are either Times New Roman or Arial fonts). Use only one font type for the entire text.
• The general text of the manuscript must be double-spaced.
• Bibliographical entries must be single spaced, while double-space should be used between entries
• Tables, quotations, footnotes, and appendices should be single-spaced.
• Margins: top, bottom: 1” (2,54 cm) and right, left: 1.5” (3,17 cm)

Title Page:

• Type the name of the university on the first row of the Title Page in CAPITAL LETTERS centered:
  NATIONAL SCHOOL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
• Type the name of the department on the second row centered:
• Department of International Relations and European Integration
• Double-space twice and type the title in CAPITAL LETTERS centered.
• Double-space twice and type: “Author:”
• Double-space and type the student’s name, as the author, in full as it will appear on the diploma.
• On the same row with “Author:” type three tabs to the right “Coordinator:”
• On the same row with the student’s name type three tabs to the right the title and name of the professor who coordinated your work on dissertation
• On the bottom of the Title Page type the place (Bucharest) and the year in which the dissertation is submitted.

Table of Contents page(s):

• Type “TABLE OF CONTENTS” centered 2” (5,08 cm) from the top of the page.
• Double-space twice and type the listings.
• The titles of the chapters or sections must be worded exactly as they appear in the body of the dissertation.
• Single-space within each entry and double-space between.
• All material that follows the Table of Contents should be listed indicating corresponding page numbers.
• Only the general text of the dissertation should be reflected in the Table of Contents. No preceding texts, such as a summary or acknowledgements should be listed within the Table of Contents.
• If you choose to list Tables and Figures within the text, they should be listed separately and not included in the Table of Contents.

Bibliography pages:

• Type the heading “BIBLIOGRAPHY” centered 2” (5,08 cm) from the top of the page.
• Double-space twice and type the list of sources in alphabetical order, starting with A, based on the name of the author. Documents with no author, such as legal or administrative documents should be listed first, with a line in place of the author’s name.
• Single-space within each entry and double-space between.
• Only one standard for the presentation of bibliography should be used throughout the entries. It should include the name of the author, his (hers) surname, the complete title of the bibliographic reference, the place where it was published, the publishing house and the year of publication.
• Articles should be listed with the name of the author, the title of the article, the title of the publication/magazine/review, the publisher, the issue number and date.

Page numbering:

• Numbers are placed in the center of the page 0.5" from the bottom.
• All the pages that precede the text of the dissertation:
  • Do not number the title page and the abstract (if applicable).
  • All other preliminary pages (for example, acknowledgement pages, Table of Contents, etc.) are counted and numbered using lower case roman numerals. (iii,iv,v, etc.)
• Text, Appendices and Bibliography:
  • Count and number all pages.
  • Page number 1 is the first page of the Introduction or Chapter 1 if an Introduction is not used.
  • Arabic numerals (1, 2, 3, etc.) are placed on all pages consecutively throughout the text, appendices, and bibliography.

Seminar in collaboration with EuroLider, Democracy and Change: Challanges facing the new generation of leaders; Security issues” within the wider conference on “Leaders of New Europe”, Bucharest, October 17th -19th 2005, World Trade Center; Howard Johnson Hotel.

The conference focused on these topics: consolidation of borders of freedom in an expanded Europe
security challenges in a changing Europe, leaders of New Europe: new skills, new visions, geopolitics of energy: ways and means.

The chairman of the seminar was Mr. Vasile Secares, President, NATO Studies Center. The moderators were Mr. Emil Hurezeanu, political analyst and Mr. Bogdan Popovici, Executive Director, EuroLider.

Guest Speakers:

• Teodor Melescanu, Vice-President, Romanian Senate
• George Katsirdakis, Head of Defense Cooperation, Defense Policy and Planning Division, NATO’s International Staff, NATO HQ, Bruxelles
• Giorgi Baramidze, State Minister on Euro-Atlantic Integration, Georgia
• Adrian Severin, Member of Parliament, former Minister of Foreign Affairs and former President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, Romania
• Oazu Nantoi, Programme Director, Institute for Public Policy, former Presidential Advisor, Republic of Moldova
• Tofig Musaiev, Director of Foreign Affairs Planning and Strategy Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Azerbaidjan
• Daniel Daianu, Professor of Economics, former Finance Minister of Romania, President of the Supervisory Board of Banca Comerciala Romana
• Andrij Veselovski, Director, Political Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ukraine

The Institute of European Policies and Government, NATO Studies Center and Eurolider organize of the international seminar on “Democracy and Change: Challenges for a New Generation of Leaders” on October 18, 2005, at the World Trade Center, Bucharest.

Topics to be discussed:

1. Consolidation of the new frontiers of freedom in Wider Europe
2. Security challenges in a changing Europe
3. Leaders of new Europe: new skills and visions
4. Geopolitics of energy: ways and means.

Among the foreign guests we welcome the participation of Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne, Vice President of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, European Parliament, Mr. Giorgi Baramidze, Minister on Euro-Atlantic Integration Issues, Georgia, Mr. George Katsirdakis, Head of Defense Cooperation in the Defense Policy and Planning Division of NATO’s International Staff, NATO HQ.

On September 26^th, Prof. Cornel Codiţă attended the annual conference of the European Union Institute for Security Studies held in Paris. The morning was dedicated to the annual speech on the EU’s foreign and security policy by Javier Solana, High Representative for CFSP and Secretary General of the European Council. In the afternoon, the discussion focused on the crisis in the European Union, on the possible ways to meet the challenges of integration, enlargement and the EU’s future as an international player.

Between June  22 – 24 2005, President of the NATO Studies Center, Prof. Vasile Secares visited  NATO HQ and Permanent Delegation of Romania to NATO in  Brussels, Belgium.

At NATO HQ, Prof Vasile Secares had a meeting with Jean Fournet, Assistant  Secretary General for Public Diplomacy and with Jaroslaw Skonieczka, Director,  Euro-Atlantic Integration and Partnership. The discussions also included NATO Studies Center` s proposals for strengthening the regional dimension, as well as the forthcoming activities in 2006, especially within the NATO Senior Executive Master Program.

In another round of meetings, Prof. Vasile Secares also met the Rector of the  Université Libre de Bruxelles, Prof. Pierre de Maret,  Prof. Paul Magnette, Director of Centre d' étude de la vie politique, , as well as Prof. Irnerio Seminatore, president of the European Institute of International Relations  and the Europaea Diplomatica Academia.

June 5-7 2005, Constanţa: the third international conference : „The Role of the Wider Black Sea Area in a Future European Security Space” in collaboration with the NATO Defence College in Rome. This was the 14^th Research Seminar organized in the framework of the Partnership for Peace. Participants from the Wider Black Sea Area, Balkans and Mediterranean Sea Area attended the event.

May 30, 2005, 12.00 o` clock, at the NATO Studies Center took place the graduation ceremony of the NATO Senior Executive Course, in the presence of Mr. Teodor Melescanu, Vice-President of the Romanian Senate, other Romanian dignitaries and foreign diplomats.

The Course took place during February 7- May 30 2005 with the support of NATO HQ and aimed at training, at NATO standards, experts capable of taking charge of important positions in the NATO or similar ones.

The 20 graduated of the NATO Senior Executive Course are officers and civilians from Ministry of Defence, civil servant in other ministries and agencies, as well as course attendants  from Azerbaijan, Georgia and Republic of  Moldova. They achieved knowledge on NATO `s role in consolidating a new global and European security architecture and , especially, teamwork abilities in NATO` s political and military structures.

May 20-21 2005, Baku, Azerbaijan: regional conference: „Stability and Security in South Caucasus”, with the support of NATO HQ- Brussels. Participants from Azerbaijan, Georgia, Russian Federation, Ukraine and other NATO or partner countries attended the event.

April 25-28 2005, Tbilisi, Georgia: training course: „Partnership Action Plan on Defence Institutions Building”, in collaboration with NATO HQ- Brussels and  the Geneva center for the Democratic Control of the Armed Forces.  The course attendants in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Republic of Moldova. The Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Romanian Ministry of Defence are supporting the involvement of the NATO Studies Center in this activity.

On 26, 27 and 28 April 2005, NATO Studies Center conducted an interactive training module on National Defence Policy within the Training Course on Partnership Action Plan – Defence Institutions Building (PAP – DIB) in Tbilisi, Georgia, a Joint Georgian-Swiss initiative in partnership with Geneva Centre for Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF) and NATO International Staff, and supported by Romanian Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Defence. 

The training module was designed to offer the course members an interactive environment to let them experience three steps of the defence policy process, namely drafting a defence strategy, a defence planning directive and a public information plan. Each interactive training session followed a plenary session of theoretical lectures and presentations relevant for the topic of the training session.

There were 22 course members representing ministries of defence, other ministries and non-governmental organisations from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Republic of Moldova. The course members worked in two syndicates with even distribution of the represented nations and organisations.

Based on a scenario, the course members were guided by activity coordinators and by faculty advisors to draft a generic National Defence Strategy, to relate the results to a generic Defence Planning Directive, and to draft a plan for promoting their defence policy to other institutions and to the public.  For the first two sessions, the participants played roles based on their own background. For the last session, they had to impersonate the public information staff in a fictitious ministry of defence.

At the end of every training session, each syndicate presented its products in a plenary session. The public information session included also a simulated press conference in which each syndicate had to both take the stand and to impersonate the media.

The Syllabus and scenario were available both in English and Russian, the working language was Russian with translation in English, and the products were edited only in English.

The products were consistent with the aim and scope of the programme, and they were valuable outcomes of lively and focused discussions within the syndicates. Given the diversity of nations and organisations represented in the course, and the scarcity of time at the disposal of the participants, the main lines of a national defence strategy, the subsequent defence planning directive and the public information plan, including the press release/communiqué, were of high quality, addressing the main issues from the scenario and finding solutions to most of the open-ended problems that had to be solved.

This activity represents several “firsts”: it was for the first time a PAP-DIB course was organised and conducted; it was for the first time NATO Studies Center merged a training module with a DCAF course, and it was for the first time Romania contributed to a training programme outside its own training facilities. In a round-the-table survey at the end of the interactive training programme, the participants appreciated that this exercise was useful, their time well spent and they expressed satisfaction with their own performance.