Diplomație și război. Revizionismul maghiar în dialogul bilateral București-Vatican
Diplomacy and War. Hungarian Revisionism in the Bucharest-Vatican Bilateral Dialogue

Summary/Abstract: In the interwar period, the Hungarian revisionist actions determined the Romanian state to direct itself towards actors who could serve as weighting factors in order to maintain the status quo. The Holy See was considered one of the most relevant actors, having the necessary tools for intervention both inside the Romanian state, through the clergy and Catholic hierarchs of the Latin rite, mostly of Hungarian ethnicity, and externally, through the mediation offered by pontifical diplomats and Catholic hierarchs to the Hungarian government. This study proposes an analysis of the manner in which Romanian diplomacy articulates its strategy of swaying the Roman Curia in order to determine, on the one hand, a mediation at the political and diplomatic level with the Budapest government, and on the other hand, a weighting of the revisionist tendencies manifested by the Hungarian Catholic population within the Romanian state.

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