Diplomația britanică și neutralitatea României (1914-1916)
British Diplomacy and the neutrality of Romania (1914-1916)

Summary/Abstract: This article deals with the topic of Romania’s neutrality during the First World War and Great Britain’s efforts to bring Romania into the Great War along with the Allies. The main interest of the British Government, as well as of its western ally, the French Government, was to reduce the pressure on the Western Front by the entering of the Romanian Army into the war against Austria-Hungary and Germany. This strategy was supposed to oblige the Central Powers to send troops on a new theatre of war. In this period, the British diplomacy acted in the direction of getting Romania’s support for Serbia against Bulgaria in order to defend the balance of powers in the Balkans. The Romanian Prime Minister, Ion I. C. Brătianu rejected any intervention of Romania into the war until the end of military preparations and without the conclusion of political and military agreements with the Allies. In the summer of 1916, the Brusilov offensive precipitated the entering of Romania into the war, a decision demanded ultimately especially by France and supported by Russia and Great Britain.

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