The Evolution of the Borders of Romania in the Context of the Development of Sustainable Security in South-East Europe (1853-2018)
The Evolution of the Borders of Romania in the Context of the Development of Sustainable Security in South-East Europe (1853-2018)

Summary/Abstract: At the Paris Peace Conference (1919-1920), the Allies attached a condition to the acknowledgement of the Unification of Basarabia with Romania, namely the cession of the Quadrilateral in favour of Bulgaria, as it was also desired by former enemies in the war. However, the diplomacy in Bucharest imposed its point of view. Romania, conducting its foreign policy following the goal of “preserving the borders at the end of the First World War”, adopted the approach promoted by France: the preservation of the territorial status quo.Under the pressure from Nazi Germany, on 7 September 1940, the Treaty of Craiova was signed between Romania and Bulgaria. According to the provisions of the treaty, Romania ceded the southern part of Dobruja (the Quadrilateral), agreeing on population exchange. The regime in power in Romania was installed with the help of the brutal Soviet intervention in the period between 1944 and 1947. The Romanian national-communist deviation was not acknowledged as a real danger to the unity of the Soviet Bloc.The changes initiated in the USSR by Mikhail Gorbachev and the reforms in other states in Eastern Europe were denounced as a “right-wing deviation” as well as a betrayal of the interests of socialism. Following its integration in the North Atlantic Alliance and in the European Union, Romania has a fundamental strategic interest that Dobruja and the Wider Black Sea Region should represent a stable, democratic and prosperous area, closely connected to the European and Euro-Atlantic structures.

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