La conditionnalité de I’UE et de I’OTAN sur la politique étrangère roumaine des années 1990
The Influence of EU and NATO on the Romanian Foreign Policy in the 1990s

Summary/Abstract: This article assesses the influence of the EU and NATO over the Romanian Foreign Policy during the 90s. Its main hypothesis is that the two organizations must have had some impact over the Romanian foreign policy, since any candidate had to fulfill certain conditions in order to be accepted as a member. Accession criteria, however, do not refer to foreign policy, in the case of the EU; as for NATO, it never established a list of conditions for accession, except for the generic idea of « good relations with neighbors ». Thus, on a closer examination, we find that conditionality of the EU had a minor impact on the Romanian foreign policy, while NATO might have pushed for the signing of the bilateral treaties with Hungary and Ukraine.

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