Competing Visions

Paul Dobrescu, PhD, is professor at the National University of Political Studies and Public Administration in Bucharest. He published numerous books and articles dedicated to globalization and development issues, and coordinated the research activities of the institution. His work has been translated in English (The Century of the Emerging World. Development with a Vengeance, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017) and French (La ruse de la mondialisation. L'assaut contre la puissance americaine, 2015 and Les crises post-crise. Un monde sans boussole ni hégémonie, 2017 - L'Harmattan). Recent publications include "The New Age of Development - The Geopolitical Assertion of Eurasia"(co-author F. Durach, Springer, 2022) and the edited volume Development in Turbulent Times. The many faces of inequality within Europe (Springer, 2019).

Flavia Durach, PhD, is Associate Professor at the National University for Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest. She acts as a rapporteur for the International Observatory for Information and Democracy, which offers a periodic global assessment of the information and communication space. She is the author of numerous research articles dedicated to media effects, strategic communication and online disinformation, as well as the books Public Opinion towards the EU: Triumphalism, Euroscepticism or Banal Representations? (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016) and The New Age of Development - The Geopolitical Assertion of Eurasia (Springer, 2022), co-author Paul Dobrescu.

Chapter 1: The Future Must Be Met with Humility!.- Chapter 2: Welcome to the Age of Global Disorder!.- Chapter 3: The Continental Shift.- Chapter 4: The Reconfiguration of the Public Sphere.- Chapter 5: Century-defining contest.- Chapter 6: "I Hear the Message, but I Lack Faith in It!".