Partner: Department Of Presidential Administration-National Security

Topics of discussion: steps to a coalition of civil society for the reform of the security system; development of strategic culture in universities; research and collaboration opportunities.

Meeting hosts: Marian Zulean ACC. at the University of Bucharest, specialist in issues of national security, and Gen. Carlos Dalton, State Advisor to the National Security Department within the Presidential Administration.

Remarks: Constantin Dudu Ionescu, former State Secretary of the Ministry of national defense: somewhere in front of the House of the grandparents is a cross held at high esteem, stra-strabunici "heroes and Patriots," killed by the Ottomans. It is said that they had to make SOAP for a convoy or a group of Turks who were returning in Istanbul, and they they put stones in the smart middle calupilor SOAP. The misfortune was that the Turks have discovered the fraud earlier and came back out of the way to shorten. The fact that it's cross held at high esteem it's significant for our discussion about strategic culture. Shows us that there's a tradition in Romania izolationista of non-cooperation in which the breach of a contract taken as patriotism. Obviously, the story looks and how it's efficiency that safety attitude.

MINA: probably here would stand powers from the civil society to denounce the avatars of this type of strategic culture. For example, and now history textbooks raise Brave conquerors such as Slavs or pure acts of terrorism of a Vlad the Impaler, as a result of a narrow nationalism antiliberal.

Videos: Carlos Dalton; Valeriu Stoica.

An event organised with the support of the Balkan Trust for Democracy of the German Marshall Fund