Two books on their and our identity

“Cartier” publishing house is issuing two books on the identity of the West and the East as part of the Historical Quarter Collection, Info-Prim Neo reports. Dan Dungaciu’s book “Who are We? Chronicles from the East to the West” treats Moldova promptly, pertinently and in a way that is comprehensible to the West, but without pathetism like flower bridges, a communiqué from “Cartier” says. Moldova’s independence – from who?; What is there behind ‘the war of the language’?; What does depoliticization of the identity issue mean?; What does it happen there?; Voronization of Moldova and of the Romanian foreign policy?; Does NATO have support in Moldova? – these questions and other issued are raised by Dan Dungaciu in his book “Who are We? Chronicles from the East to the West”. Dan Dungaciu is a senior researcher at the Institute of Political Sciences and International Relations of the Romanian Academy and a lecturer at the Faculty of Sociology and Social Assistance of the University in Bucharest. He worked as associated researcher for different Western institutions and is the author of dozens of specialized studies and numerous related works. “Easts/Wests. 25 Centuries of War” by Thierry Camous (translated from French by Mira-Maria Cucinschi) treats the relations between the two worlds. Definitely, the relations between the Western and Eastern civilizations are not limited to carnages only; they are related to the arts, sciences and thinking. Yet, undoubtedly these two poles of the civilization met more often on battle fields. There was even created a half-method of functioning between the Wests and the Easts: opposition, disagreement, conflict and, finally, carnage. The notions of the West and the East cannot be reduced to simple conceptions. They are complex and incorporate situations that happened in time and that modified their nature. The West and the East are often pluralized in this work,” the communiqué says.