REFLECTAREA INTERESELOR DE SECURITATE ALE ROMÂNIEI ÎN POZIŢIA SA DE NEGOCIERE A ACTULUI FINAL DE LA HELSINKI
THE INFLUENCE OF ROMANIA'S SECURITY INTERESTS HAD ON ITS POSITION AS NEGOCIATOR OF HELSINKI FINAL ACT

Summary/Abstract: After getting over the crisis point of the Cold War, namely the Cuban Missile Crisis, the two superpowers, The United States of America and The Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics acknowledged the danger of the nuclear weapons as well as the need for dialogue and cooperation. Therefore, the two decided to create a common space, in which to be able to talk about the security issues they didn’t want and could not handle through traditional means, and, at the same time, a common space designed to ease the usage of the new forms of collective action. By this, they started the Helsinki Accords, known also as the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe, having as founding document the Helsinki Final Act. This document triggered the emergence of the dissolutions regarding its real utility, as some saw it as a hybrid document that did not reflect the consensus and the common values but the existing tensions between the East and the West regarding the future of the European security system, and others saw it as “genuine charter of the relations inside Europe”. In this European context a process of international reassertion is in full bloom in Romania. The 70’s find Romania in a deadlock, as the security dilemma was unleashed, on the one hand, by our country’s need to protect its territory from a tentative aggression coming from the Soviet Union, and on the other hand, by the yearning of guiding its foreign affairs according to the Marxist-Leninist ideology, that was not appreciated by the Occident/ West. Having this context as a starting point for my essay, my aim is to tackle the way in which Romania’s security dilemma influenced our country’s contribution to the drafting of the Helsinki Final Act, and, at the same time, to emphasize the way in which the Romanian delegation think out its settlement by promoting and requiring a set of principles related to its national interest.

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