Romania After Tyranny

ISBN-13: 9780367301651 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 311 str.

Daniel N. Nelson

Opis

This book discusses territorial/ethnic disputes involving Transylvania, Bessarabia and Dobrudja. It considers Romanian diplomacy and defense policy as the linkages between Romanian domestic political life and the country's foreign policy.

Spis treści

Preface -- Introduction -- Domestic Issues: The Difficult Path to Democracy -- The 1989 Revolution and Romania’s Future -- The New Leaders and the Opposition -- Peasants and Authority in the New Romania -- Romanians and Democratic Values: Socialization After Communism -- The Romanian Army in the December Revolution and Beyond -- Social Change and Changing Public Opinion in Romania After the 1990 Election -- The Prognoses for Economic Recovery -- Foreign and Defense Policies: Finding Security in the New Europe -- Post-Communist Insecurity and the Romanian Case -- Security as Seen from Bucharest -- After the Revolution: A Foreign Policy of Bounded Change -- Romania and Moldavian Political Dynamics -- An Alternative Romanian Foreign Policy -- Romania’s Response to a Restructured World -- Conclusion

O autorze

Daniel N. Nelson teaches at Georgetown University’s Russian Area Studies Program and serves as a consultant on East Europe for government and business organizations. Previously he has been senior foreign and defense policy advisor for the House majority leader. Representative Richard Gephardt, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment, and (from 1977–1989) a professor of political science at the University of Kentucky. His recent books include Balkan Imbroglio (Westview, 1991) and Romanian Politics in the Ceausescu Era (Gordon and Breach, 1989).