AFTER AND BEYOND ONE HUNDREAD YEARS. ROMANIA AND THE IDEA OF STATE
AFTER AND BEYOND ONE HUNDREAD YEARS. ROMANIA AND THE IDEA OF STATE

Summary/Abstract: The Great Union Centennial provides an opportunity for considering the idea of state peculiar to Romania and thus toapproach this event from a security studies perspective. To this purpose, the idea of state as conceived by Barry Buzan, aprominent representative of the Copenhagen School, is presented and his views about the condition of this idea in Romaniais described. Based on the meaning attributed by Buzan to the idea of state, the paper investigates the content of the idea ofstate corresponding to Romania by first reflecting on the possibility of reconstructing it through the writings of foreignerswho visited or stayed in Romania and, secondly, by attempting to identify some of its constituents based on the memoriespublished by James O. Noyes, who traveled through Romanian Principalities during the Crimean War, and by the count ofSaint-Aulaire who, as plenipotentiary minister of France to Romania, witnessed the sacrifices and the sufferance experiencedby Romanians during World War I.

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