THE HISTORY OF ROMANIAN GEOPOLITICS AND GEOSTRATEGY: SOME REALLY IMPORTANT EPISODES
THE HISTORY OF ROMANIAN GEOPOLITICS AND GEOSTRATEGY: SOME REALLY IMPORTANT EPISODES

Summary/Abstract: The study explores, first of all, two different meanings of geopolitics and geostrategy: the traditional one, saying that we are speaking about a highly specialized science; and a second one, stating that there are, anytime and anywhere, not only geopolitically / geostrategically significant ideas, but also geopolitically significant activities (we call all these activities geopolitical praxis). Then, the study briefly lists the quite important number of major foreign influences which shaped, along Romania’s entire history, the geopolitical praxis of the ruling elites of the states place on the territory of contemporary Romania. Then the study explores, with some details, three major episodes in the long history of geopolitical praxis on the territory of Romania. The first takes place in 292 before Christ; a second one is the astonishingly successful geostrategic activity of the Medieval prince Mircea the Elder, one of the most important Romanian princes in the Middle Ages; and the third one takes place in 1859, when Alexandru Ioan Cuza threatens, by mobilizing at Floreşti the armies of both Romanian principalities which had had been recently united, the strategic rear areas of the Austrian Empire, confronted at that very moment with a major war in northern Italy.

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