Politica externă a României
Romanian Foreign Policy

A Comparison between the 1980s-1990s

Summary/Abstract: The study will present Romania’s foreign relations in the 1980s, with states such as: the Soviet Union, the United States of America, Middle Eastern countries and France. It will also discuss what was the external debt. In the second part, we will focus on Romania’s foreign policy in the 1990s, during which there were relations with states such as: the Soviet Union, the United States of America, the sub-Saharan states, Hungary, the Republic of Moldova, Central Asian states, but also relations with European and Euro-Atlantic organizations such as: NATO, the European Union or the Council of Europe. Joining them was the main objective for Romania in the "first decade after communism. And in the third part of the study, the comparative conclusions that appear from the first two parts will be presented. If the first period was one dominated by the authoritarian system of Nicolae Ceaușescu, the second one wanted Romania to move towards democracy, so our country experienced a new stage in foreign relations. The present study was carried out by qualitative and comparative analysis of specialized articles and books. I wanted to show how Romania’s foreign policy evolved, from one period to another, following the change of the political regime in 1989 - the two periods being diametrically opposed.

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