Dilemmas of Romanian Post-December Foreign Policy. Relations with Russia
Dilemmas of Romanian Post-December Foreign Policy. Relations with Russia

Summary/Abstract: This attempted research tries to detect under punctual and rigorous arguments the preliminary stage of the Romanian post December Foreign Policy, demonstrating the increased attention assigned to the Romanian-Russian relationship at the level of the main action directions carried on externally. In the introductory part of the study, we propose a close radiography of the external portrait of Romania, emphasizing the atypical trajectory recorded together with the sudden fall of the communist structure and the beginning of coagulation of new post-communist political structures and systems. In the second part of the paper, we shall emphasize the Romanian-Russian bilateral tandem specific to recent or immediate history segment, locating the “privileged” statute this complex relation detains at the level of the defining options of Romanian post December foreign policy. In its integrity, the paper dissociates itself from the unanimously accepted tendency in the academic circle, according to which the fundamental option of Romanian post December foreign policy was made up by the affiliation of Romania to Euro-Atlantic structures and mechanisms, inserting a distinct research direction, that starts from a contrasting premise: Romania of year ’90 perpetuated the relationships with the Soviet Union, being particularly preoccupied with the recalibration in a mutual advantageous manner of the new juridical-bilateral framework.

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