După invazie: România în umbra „doctrinei Brejnev”, septembrie-octombrie 1968
After invasion: Romania in the Shadow of the “Brezhnev Doctrine”. September-October 1968

Summary/Abstract: In August 1968, as a consequence of its having condemned the sending of Warsaw Pact troops into Czechoslovakia, Romania was very close to being subject to Soviet military intervention. The enunciation of the “limited sovereignty doctrine“ forced a reevaluation of Romanian foreign policy. The Czechoslovakian lesson obliged the Romanian leadership to be more careful and seek a form of reconciliation with Moscow. Shortly after August 1968, for Romanian diplomats it was obvious that the Soviet foreign policy hadn’t changed its strategies and that its opening to the West meant in fact the strenghtening of control over the communist bloc. Romanian diplomats understood that Bucharest’s foreign policy would be dependent on Soviet goals and that Romania could not ignore the agreement which might arise between the Soviet Union and the United States.

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