Alina Mungiu-Pippidi

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Alina Mungiu-Pippidi (born 12 March 1964) is a Romanian academic, activist and writer. She holds a doctorate in social psychology, from the University of Iaşi, Romania, and also studied at Harvard University in the USA. She is currently the president of the Romanian Academic Society, a non-government organisation and think tank that conducts policy research for transparent governance and European integration in Romania.

Mungiu-Pippidi also presently teaches at the National School of Politics and the Centre for Political Studies and Comparative Analysis.

1 Books
2 Plays
3 Notes
4 External links

[edit] Books

Mungiu-Pippidi has written many books on Romanian society and politics, including:

Romanians after '89 (Românii după '89)
Political doctrines. Universal concepts and Romanian realities. (Doctrine politice. Concepte universale şi realităţi româneşti), 1998
An introduction to politology. Optional textbook for high school. (Introducere în politologie. Manual opţional pentru liceu.), 2000
Romania after 2000. Threats and Challenges (in English, 2002)

[edit] Plays

Alina Mungiu-Pippidi has also written a number of plays, the most high-profile of which has been The Evangelists. The play, which was written in the 1990s, only debuted in Romania in 2005, where it sparked a considerable amount of controversy from Christian religious groups, who labelled it as "blasphemy" and "an attack against public morals"^[1]. The play is based on the life of Jesus from a different point of view than that of the New Testament.