The Cycles of Transition - An Epistemological Perspective on Globalization -

The particularity of the emergence of Central and Eastern European economies sits under the sign of a double-target: the break-off with the model of the planned economies of the communist type and the starting of the transformational processes leading to the market economies of the capitalist type – on one side, and the engagement in the project of integration into the European Union – on the other side. Both targets suppose gradients of change not just under the impact of the strategical options for different forms of transition, but also on the axis of time, marking true cycles of the emergence. We can elementarily distinguish two cycles, one specific to attaining the parameters of a functioning market economy and the other belonging to the beginning of convergence toward the standards of the European model of the economy. Substantially different as an integration of transformational alignments, the two cycles are within continuity – as a process of emergence – on the path of realizing an effective rupture with the bureaucratic mechanisms of regulation and with the functioning of the regulating mechanisms of the coordinated market. In fact, the cycles could be named: the interior transition (post-communist transition) and the exterior transition (integration in the E.U.). What factors must be taken into account at the conclusion of the transition? Is there an inter-conditioning of the paths followed between the two cycles? Are there priorities for the strategists on assuring the finalities of the emergence on the two cycles? To what degree do the Romania in the EU. The Quality of Integration. Growth. Competence. Employment 148 148 failures of the first cycle reverberate in the other cycle? Is there a space of national creativity in the integrative processes? These are a few of the issues which the present study tries to bring to light.