Remények és be nem váltott ígéretek. A magyar‒román kapcsolatok és a romániai magyarság a rendszerváltás előtt és után
Hopes and Unfulfilled Promises: Hungarian–Romanian Relations and the Hungarians in Romania before and after the Transition

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the present study is to review the most important events and conflicts of the Hungarian–Romanian inter-state relations that influenced the situation of the Hungarian minority in Romania from the first half of the 1970s to the first years of the 1990s. The paper analyzes the responses and measures taken by the Hungarian Government and the Hungarian minority elites from the perspective of inter-state level in order to vindicate the rights and interests of Hungarian minorities in Romania. The author pointed out that the Hungarian Government followed two main strategies to improve the situation of the Hungarian minority community. Firstly, at bilateral level the Party leadership exhausted all diplomatic means to support its ethnic kin. Secondly, in order to advocate minority rights violations the Hungarian Government, diaspora organizations (HHRF) and other non-state actors sought to internationalize the claim-making of Hungarian minorities. As the events of the late 1980 and early 1990 highlighted, this strategy had significant limits because the international forums and western states were more interested in conflictprevention and maintaining the regional stability than in pressuring state actors to adopt and implement minority-friendly legislation.

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