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Bîcă Monica Delia, Universitatea "Constantin Brâncuși" din Târgu-Jiu. Research and Science Today No. 1(5)/2013 CONTENTS HISTORY FIGHTING FOR ROME. SOME CONSIDERATIONS REGARDING THE SOLDIER‘S ATTITUDE TOWARDS ROME ........................................................................... 6 Elena ADAM 19th CENTURY CHOLERA EPIDEMICS IN THE BISTRIȚA REGION……………......14 Floarea Elena TRIȘCAȘ THE HAN EMPIRE AT THE ORIGINE OF MODERN CHINESE DIPLOMACY..........28 Raluca-Maria NICOARĂ THE BEGINNINGS OF EVANGELICAL MISSIONS ……………….…………….……....39 Ruben Ioan IVAN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS THE CAUSES AND FACTORS OF THE CONFLICTS………………….…………………49 Paul DUȚĂ Ion PANAIT BIOPOLITICS AND BIOHISTORY: REALITY OR STRATEGY……………….……......62 Viorella MANOLACHE THE MINORITY ISSUE IN THE CONTEXT OF ROMANIAN-YUGOSLAV RELATIONS BETWEEN DECEMBER 1989-JUNE 1991………………………….………76 Alin ANDRONACHE STATE VULNERABILITY – A BABYLON OF GLOBALIZATION.................................89 Andreea TRANDAFIR Anda TAROPA-IACOB PARADIGM OF STRATEGIC SECURITY ENVIRONMENT………………………...…102 Andreea Emilia DUȚĂ WESTERN ETHNOCENTRISM AS A CULTURAL ILLUSION......................................121 Costel IORDAN SOCIAL AND MORAL CONFLICTS IN EDITH WHARTON‘S LATE XIXth AND EARLY XXth CENTURY AMERICA………………………………...…………………..…132 Oana Alexandra ALEXA THE ROLE OF INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS IN GLOBAL SECURITY SYSTEM…………………………………………..……………………………………..……….143 Mihaela Andreea CIOREI Flavius-Cristian MARCAU ECONOMICS EURO, ACTOR ON THE INTERNATIONAL MONEY MARKET……...………...……156 Isabella Cristiana SIMA RESEARCH DISCLOSURE OF IAS 2, IAS 11 AND IAS 37 IN COMPANIES LISTED ON THE STOCK MARKET OF LONDON, GERMANY AND PARIS……………...….166 Mihaela MATEIU (căs. MAN) 4 March 2013 ASSESSMENT OF SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISES‘COMPETITIVENESS LEVEL BASED ON DIRECT INTERVIEW....177 Elena NISIPEANU WHAT MEANS MARKETING MANAGEMENT IN A COMPETITIVE ENVIRONMENT?........................................................................................................................188 Alexandra CĂLIN ENGINEERING THE IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD IN ORTHOTROPIC MATERIAL EVALUATION……………………………………………………………………….………….194 Katalin HARANGUS COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF POTATO SORTING AND SIZING MACHINES....204 Filip Vladimir EDU ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCES EDUCATION - AN ESSENTIAL FACTOR IN THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF SOUTH WEST OLTENIA………………………………………….…………………...…215 Aurelia Camelia MARIN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES OF LEADERSHIP STYLES IN PUBLIC SECTOR IN FRANCE, UNITED KINGDOM AND GERMANY........................................................222 Nica AŞER MULTICRITERIA BASED RANKING OF TERRITORIAL ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS IN ROMANIA ACCORDING TO THE AGGREGATE INDEX OF INFRASTRUCTUR0E…………………………………….……………..……………………..233 Laura BOGDAN Monika MOGA ADMINISTRATIVE POLICE – FUNDAMENTAL FORM OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION ACTIVITY..............................................................................................245 Dana VULPAȘU SOCIAL SCIENCE ―BRAVE NEW‖ VIRTUAL WORLDS – A SOCIO-HISTORICAL APPROACH .……256 Elena-Alis COSTESCU DOMINANT THINKING OF THE YOUNG ADRIAN MARINO…………...…………..267 Cristina-Elena CIUNTUC TECHNOLOGY OR SIN? A WAY OF LOOKING AT THE WRONGDOINGS OF INFORMATICS FROM A THEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE…………………………….279 Caleb Otniel Traian NECHIFOR COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA IN CHILDREN‘S POETRY UNDER GHEORGHIU- DEJ‘S REGIME.............................................................................................................................290 CRISTESCU (TODERICĂ) Cosmina PIPOŞ Cristina KEY ISSUES FOR THE DICHOTOMY OF VIRGIL IERUNCA‘S EXILE…….....……297 Alexandra Florina MĂNESCU INFORMATIONS ABOUT RESEARCH AND SCIENCE TODAY JOURNAL……………………………………………………………………………………….311 5 Research and Science Today No. 1(5)/2013 History FIGHTING FOR ROME. SOME CONSIDERATIONS REGARDING THE 1 SOLDIER’S ATTITUDE TOWARDS ROME Elena ADAM2 ABSTRACT WHEN WE SPEAK OF THE HISTORY OF THE ROMAN WORLD WE SPEAK OF CONQUERORS, OF VICTORIES AND DEFEATS, AND IMPLICITLY OF SOLDIERS. SINCE THE BEGINNINGS OF ROME THE SOLDIER APPEARS AS A POWERFUL “ENTITY” THAT FOUGHT TO ENSURE THE ETERNITY OF THE STATE, EMBRACING A GLORIOUS DEATH. WHAT MADE THE ROMAN SOLDIER READY TO GIVE HIS LIFE FOR THE WELFARE OF THE STATE? THIS STUDY OFFERS POSSIBLE ANSWERS TO THIS MYSTERY BY ANALYZING SOME OF THE LITERARY SOURCES OF THE PERIOD. I WILL UNDERLINE HOW THE POLITICAL AND SOCIAL CHANGES THAT TRANSFORMED THE REPUBLIC INTO THE ROMAN EMPIRE ALSO CHANGED THE SOLDIER‟S ATTITUDE AND HIS “PATRIOTISM” TOWARDS THE ROMAN STATE. KEYWORDS: ROMAN SOLDIER, “PATRIOTISM”, MILITARY COMMUNITY, DONATIVA, SACRAMENTUM MILITARE, REPUBLIC-ROMAN EMPIRE INTRODUCTION In the last decades we can observe a new direction that separates the studies concerning the Roman army from the greater area of analyses of the Roman Empire. Even more, researchers emphasized the existence of distinct methods of analysis. R. Alston3 recalls a famous speech of M. P. Speidel, honoring E. Birley, on the subject of the analyses of the Roman Empire: ―Where is the unifying thread? I believe we do have such a thread 1 This work was supported