ROMANIA’S DEFENCE POLICY POST-WARSAW
ROMANIA’S DEFENCE POLICY POST-WARSAW

Summary/Abstract: The Warsaw NATO Summit of 2016 represents a turn in NATO policy, focusing more on achieving tangible results and a more active involvement of the member countries. Apart from strengthening the military capabilities, the results of the Summit also signaled an enhanced cooperation with the European Union.In this regard, it is interesting to highlight the manner in which Romania’s decision-making process complied with the outcomes set by the Warsaw Summit, in light of the country’s membership within the two organizations and its particular role in the North-Atlantic alliance.The aim of this article is to perform an analysis of the steps taken by Romania in its foreign policy in order to identify a degree of compliance with post-Warsaw NATO prerequisites. Thus, the new Governance Programme shall be analyzed, together with the positions taken by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the National Defense Ministry. Statements of the major decision-makers after the Summit shall be used in order to create the framework of analysis, as well as the country’s stance taken due to the activation of the Deveselu base. The focus of the analysis shall be on the major elements established as threats and the efforts made in their countering by the habilitated institutions.

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