Claudiu A. Secara

The author, after successful careers in the socialist East and in the capitalist West, analyzes worldwide political and economic developments of the past decades, particularly economic change in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Claudiu A. Secara suggests that Russia will be reinvigorated by compromising both models — the old communist orthodoxy as well as the new casino capitalism, which should bring Russia back to “socialist capitalism,” through which the country may well become the dominant power in a Eurasian commonwealth within a new world order quite different from the one most Americans imagine.Secara graduated from the University of Bucharest with an advanced degree in Philosophy and Political Economy. He worked as a journalist in Bucharest for several years before resigning over the issue of journalistic independence; the next several years he devoted to travel and independent scholarship, teaching, odds jobs, reading and writing.Later he bailed out of the peasant-socialist cum “state-capitalist” system entirely. He arrived in New York in 1983 as a political refugee and earned a Master’s degree in Political Science from New York University. He earned a doctorate in International Business and a doctorate in Information Systems from Pace University, providing consulting services in international business and computer technologies for clients such as Panasonic, Bankers Trust, and Deutsche Bank. Secara departed from his consulting work at the World Trade Center in New York, in good time, and turned again to full-time research and writing. He wrote Time & Ego: Judeo-Christian Egotheism and the Anglo Saxon Industrial Revolution, a philosophical essay, Post-Soviet Euroslavia,  and the broader work, The New Commonwealth: From Bureaucratic Corporatism to Socialist Capitalism. He is also involved with Algora Publishing.Secara combines the talent of what was once called ‘reading Pravda between the lines’ with a classical education and independent analysis. He remains a self-described socialist, atheist, committed to enlightenment and liberty of thought.