With a surface-area of 238,391 km2 and a population of 21,584,365 (July 1, 2007), Romania is one of the relatively large states in Central Europe, coming third after Germany; as regards its neighbours, it ranks second after Ukraine. The country lies in-between two conflict foci, the former Yugoslav space and the former Soviet Union, were the Transnistrian conflict has a direct bearing on the Romanian population of the Republic of Moldova. Both conflicts have been triggered by ethnic tensions augmented by the fall of the communist regime and the assertion of national identity. Within this geostrategic context, Romania
is an island of stability, with a broad political openness to the European
and Euro-Atlantic structures of cooperation, its participating in potential
crisis situations in terms of EU and NATO demands. Taking advantage of the country’s geographical and geostrategic position after 1918, basically at the cross-roads and interaction of the Central-European, Balkan and East-European countries (Austro-Hungary,Turkey and the Slav states, and Russia and Ukraine, respectively), Romanian geopolitics would focus on the national factor, on the nation and the national state.
Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:Potsdam/oai:kobv.de-opus-ubp:3878 |
Date | January 2009 |
Creators | Săgeată, Radu |
Publisher | Universität Potsdam, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät. Institut für Geographie, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät. Institut für Geoökologie |
Source Sets | Potsdam University |
Language | English |
Detected Language | English |
Type | Article |
Format | application/pdf |
Source | Am östlichen Rand der Europäischen Union. - Universitätsverlag, 2009. - S. 45 - 58 |
Rights | http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/doku/urheberrecht.php |
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