Foreign Policy and International Relations of the Principality of Transylvania
Foreign Policy and International Relations of the Principality of Transylvania

Summary/Abstract: The subject of the paper is the international relations and recognition of the Principality of Transylvania. International law requires the existence of three mandatory elements in order to recognize a state. These are territory, population, and sovereign authority over them. If we focus on the Transylvanian state, meeting these requirements will not represent an issue. The interesting question is the fourth but not additional criteria of statehood in international law, international recognition. Without international recognition, a state cannot act as part of the international community, and there will always be a collision between claims of sovereignty by other states. In Transylvanian history, this collision existed with the Habsburg and the Ottoman Empire. The essay shows that the independent Principality of Transylvania had the recognition of other states, also having regular foreign policy and diplomatic relations. To demonstrate this statement, the essay is built on three points and breaks down as follows: the evolution of the state from the Eastern Kingdom of Hungary until the Principality of Transylvania, the foreign policy of the Transylvanian state, its directions and orientations and the international relations of the Transylvanian state, with evidence of state recognition.

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