Despre viziunea antihegemonică a politicii externe românești.
A New Piece of Evidence Regarding the Antihegemonical State of the Romanian Foreign Policy during the communist regime.

Romania and the Cypriot crisis from 1974.

Summary/Abstract: In 1974, a coup inspired by the military dictatorship in Greece overthrew Cyprus’spresident, archbishop Makarios, event which led to a Turkish military intervention in the island. This article analyzes Romania’s position vis-à-vis the Cypriot crisis in the context ofits earlier proposals for Balkan cooperation. While the Soviet Union and the other Warsaw Pact members saw in the coup an Imperialist attempt to turn non-aligned Cyprus into aN.A.T.O. base by its forceful unification with Greece, Romania on the other hand had adifferent vision. For the Romanian diplomacy, the Cypriot crisis involved a double risk: not only of Cyprus becoming a N.A.T.O. base, but also of Soviet-American direct involvementin the region. A military conflict in the Eastern Mediterranean had the potential to increase the American and Soviet presence in the region therefore limiting the capacity of the smalland middle-sized states to affirm their own interests independently. It was for this reason in particular that Romania insisted on a peaceful solution to the crisis, a solution that would only involve the Greeks and the Turks and not permit the interference of the two superpowers.

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