Din locuri sensibile ale diplomației: chestiunea transilvăneană în rapoartele consulilor români de la Budapesta (primul deceniu al secolului XX)
From Sensitive Places of Diplomacy: the Transylvanian Issue in the Reports of Romanian Consuls in Budapest (the first Decade of the 20th Century)

Summary/Abstract: The present study examines the discussion of/locus constituted by the 'Transylvanian question' in the reports drafted by the Consuls sent by the Kingdom of Romania to Budapest. The analysis focuses on several aspects, including the structure of this office of diplomatic representation, its key figures, their official and unofficial pathways of obtaining information, and the content of their accounts. Within an increasingly tense context, such as that of the early twentieth century, the scripts followed by these diplomats needed to take into account the sensitivities involved in a relation with Dualist Hungary, a difficult partner. Upon the backdrop of a period of national effervescence, these Romanian consuls needed to find creative ways of managing a developing political scenery, in which the voice of the street was not unseldom heard more loudly than that of diplomacy.

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