Timișoara, especially by preventing a more violent repression against it, but it was never explained. He also argued that Brucan's group of former inner-Party dissidents was, in the eyes of the uninformed public at large, the only "credible alternative" at the time, and cited Brucan's own statement: "The train had arrived in the station and we were the only ones who could get on it. What were we to say, that we will not get on? We did it". Overall, Neumann contended, Silviu Brucan's political and diplomatic expertise, as well as his adaptability, had made this old Stalinist the "ideologist of political transformations in 1989 Romania", and had contributed to the supremacy of left-wing discourse in the years following the Revolution (in regard to the latter point, he cited Brucan arguments, which challenged the existence of the right-wing themes in the ideological makeup of the 1989 movement). Works English The dissolution of power; a sociology of international relations and politics, Knopf (1971) The Dialectic of World Politics (1978) The post-Brezhnev era: an insider's view, Praeger (1983) World Socialism at the Crossroads: An Insider's View, Praeger (1987) Pluralism and social conflict: a social analysis of the communist world, Praeger (1990) The wasted generation : memoirs of the Romanian journey from capitalism to socialism and back, Westview Press (1993) Social Change in Russia and Eastern Europe, Praeger/Greenwood (1998) Romanian Originile politicii americane Bucharest, Editura Științifică, 1968 – (Origins of the American policy) Democratizarea relațiilor internaționale: premise și realități, Bucharest, Editura Politică, 1975 – (The democratization of international relations: premisses and realities) Dialectica politicii internaționale, Cluj-Napoca, Editura Dacia, 1985 – (The dialectic of world politics) Pluralism și conflict social. O analiză socială a lumii comuniste, Bucharest, Editura Enciclopedică, 1990 – (Pluralism and social conflict. A social analysis of the communist world) Piață și democrație, Bucharest, Editura Științifică, 1990 – (Market and democracy) Îndreptar-dicționar de politologie, Bucharest, Nemira, 1993 – (Handbook-dictionary of politology) Stâlpii noii puteri în România, Bucharest, Nemira, 1996 – (The bases of the new power structure in Romania) Lumea după războiul rece. Locul României și viitorul ei, Bucharest, Editura România Liberă, 1996 – (The World after the Cold War. Romania's place and her future) O biografie între două revoluții: De la capitalism la socialism și retur, Bucharest, Nemira, 1998 – (A biography between two revolutions: from capitalism to socialism and back) România în derivă, Bucharest, Nemira, 2000 – (Romania adrift) Profeții