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Etica şi eficienţa în diplomaţie - provocare în viitoarea Europă Unită
Ethics and Efficiency in Diplomacy - A Challenge for the Future United Europe

Author(s): Peter Kopecký
Subject(s): History
Published by: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai

Summary/Abstract: Ethics and Efficiency in Diplomacy - A Challenge for the Future United Europe. The author of the present article, dr. Peter Kopecky, is a professor with the Comenius University of Bratislava and was the ambassador of the Slovak Republic in Romania and the Moldavian Republic between 1997-2002. He has worked for several years at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic and he is quite familiar with the questions related to contemporary diplomacy. The diplomat's meditation tackles here the relationship between ethics and efficiency in the diplomatic activity so relevant for the countries of Central-East Europe in full process of European integration. The present article reproduces the lecture delivered by the diplomat-professor to the students of the Department of History - International Relations of the "Babeş-Bolyai" University in Cluj in May 2004.

  • Issue Year: 49/2004
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 139-150
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Romanian
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