Dan Dungaciu
{{Short description|Romanian sociologist (born 1968)}}
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Dan Gheorghe Dungaciu (born 3 October 1968) is a Romanian sociologist and geopolitician.
Biography
He was born in Târgu Mureș. He graduated from the University of Bucharest in 1995 and received his Ph.D. in 2002. He is a professor at the Faculty of Sociology and Social Work of the University of Bucharest and director of the Institute of Political Sciences and International Relations of the Romanian Academy.{{cite web|url=https://fumn.eu/prof-univ-dan-dungaciu-presedinte-fumn/?lang=en|title=Prof. Dan Dungaciu – President|publisher=Fundația Universitară a Mării Negre "Mircea Malița"|website=fumn.eu|access-date=December 16, 2024}} He served as Secretary of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania.[http://www.cdep.ro/pls/legis/legis_pck.htp_act?ida=64486 Decizie nr.52 din 11 mai 2006 privind numirea domnului Dan Dungaciu în funcția de subsecretar de stat pentru românii de pretutindeni în cadrul Ministerului Afacerilor Externe]
On Moldova
Dungaciu is a supporter of the Romanian language in the Republic of Moldova. In 2022 he wrote that the Chișinău Government can introduce the Romanian language into the Constitution of the Republic of Moldova without a vote in Parliament.{{cite news|url=https://adevarul.ro/blogurile-adevarul/dan-dungaciu-guvernul-de-la-chisinau-poate-2226881.html|title=Dan Dungaciu: Guvernul de la Chișinău poate introduce limba română în Constituția R. Moldova fără vot în Parlament! O spune judecătorul Tudor Panțîru|language=ro|newspaper= Adevărul|date=12 December 2022|access-date=1 December 2024}}
Dungaciu has been a supporter of Moldovan President Maia Sandu and has accurately predicted that her party would get a good result in the early elections of 2021.{{cite news|url=https://www.digi24.ro/stiri/externe/moldova/alegeri-moldova-2016/d-dungaciu-uniti-impotriva-candidatului-rusiei-mesajul-cu-care-maia-sandu-poate-castiga-prezidentialele-602755|title= Dan Dungaciu: Mesajul cu care Maia Sandu poate câștiga|language=ro|publisher= Digi24|date=31 October 2016|access-date=1 December 2024}} Dungaciu characterised Maia Sandu as a winner and affirmed that Sandu would be capable of calling early elections.[https://www.stiripesurse.ro/dan-dungaciu-maia-sandu-nu-poate-sa-tina-piept-la-tot-ce-se-petrece-in-republica-moldova_2230225.html Dungaciu: Maia Sandu nu poate să țină piept la tot ce se petrece în Republica Moldova], Știri pe surse, February 2022
Awards
Dan Dungaciu is laureate of the Dimitrie Gusti prize for sociology offered by the Romanian Academy (1995) and the International Prize for Sociology of Istanbul University (2001). In 2009, the interim President of Moldova, Mihai Ghimpu, signed a decree on bestowing the Order of Honour on Dungaciu.{{cite news|url=https://hotnews.md/articles/view.hot?id=212|title=Ghimpu rupe! Și Veaceslav Țîbuleac a fost decorat cu "Ordinul de Onoare"|language=ro|publisher=HotNews|date=December 30, 2009|access-date=December 16, 2024}}
Private life
Dungaciu obtained Moldovan citizenship on 16 July 2010, when he became an advisor for European Integration for president Mihai Ghimpu.[http://www.hotnews.md/articles/view.hot?id=3610 Dan Dungaciu a devenit cetățean al R. Moldova și consilier al președintelui interimar Mihai Ghimpu] He married Moldovan journalist Stela Popa in October 2012.{{cite web |date=2012-10-06 |title=Stela Popa și Dan Dungaciu s-au căsătorit! |url=http://jurnal.md/ro/news/exclusiv-stela-popa-si-dan-dungaciu-s-au-casatorit-453789/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121009001541/http://jurnal.md/ro/news/exclusiv-stela-popa-si-dan-dungaciu-s-au-casatorit-453789/ |archive-date=2012-10-09 |access-date=2012-10-08 |language=Romanian |newspaper=Jurnal de Chișinău}}
Works
- {{Cite book |title=Sociologia și geopolitica frontierei (2 vols.)|year=1995 |editor1-last=Bădescu |editor1-first=Ilie |editor2-last=Cristea |editor2-first=Sandra|editor3-last=Dungaciu |editor3-first=Dan Gheorghe|location=București |publisher=Editura Floarea Albastră |isbn=978-973-97305-1-8|oclc=895593784}}
- {{Cite book |title=Istoria sociologiei. Teorii contemporane|year=1996 |author1-last=Bădescu |author1-first=Ilie |author2-last=Dungaciu|author2-first=Dan|author3-last=Baltasiu |author3-first=Radu|location=București |publisher=Editura Eminescu |isbn=9789732205181|oclc=40923977}}
- {{Cite book |last=Dungaciu |first=Dan |title="Rețelele omeniei" și rețelele mistificării |year=1997 |publisher=Editura Romanitatea Orientală |isbn=978-973-97951-2-8 |series=Colecția Nexus |location=București|oclc=895640402}}
- Enciclopedia valorilor reprimate, 2 volume, 2000 (coauthor)
- Statul și comunitatea morală. Memorii (1904–1910), Traian Brăileanu, (ediție îngrijită, studiu introductiv și repere bibliografice de Dan Dungaciu), 2002.
- Sociologia românească interbelică în context european, 2002.
- Națiunea și provocările (post)modernității, 2002.
- {{Cite book |last=Dungaciu |first=Dan |title=Moldova ante portas |year=2005 |publisher=Tritonic |isbn=978-973-733-045-1 |series=Studii de securitate |location=București|oclc=
75968430}}
- {{Cite book |last=Dungaciu |first=Dan Gheorghe|title=Cine suntem noi? cronici de la Est de Vest |year=2009 |publisher=Editura Cartier |isbn=978-9975-79-539-5 |edition=Ediția I |series=Cartier istoric |location=Chișinău|oclc=895459327}}
- {{Cite book |title=The perfect storm of the European crisis |date=2017 |publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing |isbn=978-1-4438-7360-4 |editor1-last=Dungaciu |editor1-first=Dan|editor2-last=Iordache |editor2-first=Ruxandra|location=Newcastle upon Tyne, England|oclc=
992307047}}
- {{Cite book |title=The geopolitical Black Sea Encyclopaedia |date=2020 |publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing |isbn=978-1-5275-5806-9 |editor-last=Dungaciu |editor-first=Dan |location=Newcastle upon Tyne, England|oclc=1195824346}}
External links
- {{GoogleScholar|id=rWlDJjYAAAAJ&hl}}
- {{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101011050538/http://www.unibuc.ro/ro/cd_dandungaciu_ro|title=Curriculum Vitae – Prof.univ.dr. Dan Gheorghe Dungaciu|publisher=University of Bucharest|website=www.unibuc.ro}}
- {{cite web|url=https://ispri.ro/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/1.-DAN-DUNGACIU-CV-RO-2021-1.pdf|title=Curriculum Vitae Europass – Dan Dungaciu|publisher=Institutul de Științe Politice și Relații Internaționale "Ion I.C. Brătianu"|website=ispri.ro}}
- {{cite web|url=https://archive.today/20130222171723/http://www.voceabasarabiei.net/index.php/stiri/cultura/752-cartea-lui-dan-dungaciu-cine-suntem-noi-cronici-de-la-est-de-vest-le-a-fost-recomandat-concuren/ |title=Cartea lui Dan Dungaciu "Cine suntem noi? Cronici de la Est de Vest"|website=www.voceabasarabiei.net|date=February 18, 2009}}
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Category:People from Târgu Mureș
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Category:Romanian sociologists
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