Beschrijving
The book is both a working tool for researchers who want to more easily identify Romanian diplomatic staff in the Balkans during the war, but also an analysis of the decision-making process and the relationship between the foreign diplomatic service, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the political regime.
Who were Romania’s diplomatic representatives in the Balkans during the Second World War? How did they select and forward information? What personal mark did they add to negotiations and diplomatic notes? What was the relationship between the career diplomats and the political authorities in Romania in the context of a dictatorial regime in Bucharest? These are just some of the questions the book aims at providing answers to. Moreover, this “questionnaire” applied to the Balkans does not only elicit answers that reflect developments and processes in the area. It allows reflections on the broader decision-making architecture, on the entire Romanian foreign policy of that period and on the functioning mechanisms of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in relation to the rigours of a totalitarian state.
