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.

Institutul de Guvernare şi Politici Europene, Centrul de Studii NATO şi Eurolider organizează, în data de 18 octombrie 2005, seminarul internaţional Democraţie şi schimbare: Provocări pentru noua generaţie de lideri, la World Trade Center, Bucureşti.

Printre participanţii de seamă se numără Baroneasa Nicholson de Winterbourne, vice-preşedinte al Comitetului pentru Relaţii Externe al Parlamentului European, domnul domnul Giorgi Baramidze, Ministru pe probleme de integrare euro-atlantică, Georgia, domnul George Katsirdakis, Head of Defense Cooperation in the Defense Policy and Planning Division, Cartierul General al NATO.

In data de 26 septembrie, domnul profesor Cornel Codiţă a participat la Paris, la conferinţa anuală a Institutului pentru Studii de Securitate al Uniunii Europene. Dimineaţa conferinţei a fost dedicată mesajului anual despre politica externă şi de securitate a UE, prezentat de domnul Javier Solana, Inaltul Reprezentant pentru PESC şi Secretarul General al Consiliului European. După-amiaza, discuţiile s-au concentrat asupra crizei Uniunii Europene, asupra posibilelor căi de a răspunde provocărilor integrării, extinderii şi viitorului UE ca actor internaţional.

In perioada 22 – 24 iunie 2005, Preşedintele Centrului de Studii NATO, domnul prof.dr. Vasile Secares,  a efectuat o vizita la Cartierul General NATO  si la Misiunea Romaniei la NATO de la Bruxelles, Belgia.

La Cartierul General al NATO, domnul  prof.dr. Vasile Secares  a avut intalniri cu domnul Jean Fournet, Assistant  Secretary General for Public Diplomacy si cu domnul Jaroslaw Skonieczka, Director,  Euro-Atlantic Integration and Partenership. In cursul discutiilor au fost abordate propunerile Centrului de Studii NATO pentru intarirea dimensiunii regionale  precum si agenda de activitate pentru anul 2006, in mod deosebit  in cadrul  programului de pregatire NATO Senior Executive Course.

De asemenea domnul prof.univ.dr. Vasile Secares  s-a intalnit cu rectorul Universitatii Libere din Bruxelles, domnul prof.univ.dr.   Pierre de Maret,  cu directorul Institutului de Studii Europene, domnul prof.dr. Paul Magnette precum şi cu preşedintele Institutului European de Relatii Internationale si al Academiei Diplomatica Europaea, domnul prof.dr. Irnerio Seminatore.

5-7 Iunie 2005, Constanţa: A treia Conferinţă Internaţională cu tema : „ The Role of the Wider Black Sea Area in a Future European Security Space” în colaborare cu Colegiul de Apărare NATO de la Roma.  Participanţi din Zona Lărgită a Mării Negre, Balcani şi Caucaz.

30 mai 2005, orele 12.00, a avut loc la Centrul de Studii NATO ceremonia de absolvire a cursului NATO Senior Executive, în prezenţa domnului Teodor Meleşcanu, vice-preşedinte al Senatului României, a altor demnitari români şi diplomaţi străini.

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Cei douăzeci de absolvenţi ai cursului NATO Senior Executive sunt ofiţeri şi civili din Ministerul Apărării Naţionale, funcţionari publici din alte ministere şi agenţii, precum şi cursanţi din Azerbaijan, Georgia şi Republica Moldova. Ei au dobândit cunoştinţe despre rolul NATO în edificarea unei noi arhitecturi europene şi mondiale de securitate şi, mai ales, deprinderi privind lucrul în cadrul structurilor politice şi militare ale Alianţei.

20-21 Mai 2005, Baku, Azerbaijan: conferinţa regională cu tema: „Stability and Security in South Caucasus”, în colaborare cu Cartierul General NATO de la Bruxelles. Participanţi din Azerbaijan, Georgia, Federaţia Rusă, Ukraina şi alte state NATO sau partenere interesate

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