Introduction: Under the spell of kinship: Romanian and the Latin countries in the modern age
Introduction: Under the spell of kinship: Romanian and the Latin countries in the modern age

Summary/Abstract: With the advent of modernization, secularization and nationalism, kinship started to play an important role in the way a nation constructs its foreign policy ideology and, whenever applicable, in the way this ideology is translated into practice. There is no, however, a direct relations between the inputs and outcomes of theorizing and practicing kinship in the foreign policy of a given country. Other stronger inputs such as the international system and its constrains, security dilemmas, regional and international priorities, domestic needs, and demagogy are but a few factors that can strongly influence the outcomes. This issue of VJHS approaches, in the first part, the sea of opportunities and failures that kinship based bilateral relations encountered in the relations between the neo-Latin countries during the 19th and 20th centuries.

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