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    STUDIA EUROPAEA - Issue no. 2 / 2013  
         
  Article:   ION I. C. BRĂTIANU’S ETHICS AND REALIST PRINCIPLES WITH REGARD TO ROMANIA’S FOREIGN POLICY.

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  Abstract:  The statesman Ion I. C. Brătianu was among the first and few Romanian politicians who attempted to codify a Romanian foreign policy system before and after World War I. Starting from the rules and compulsory steps of a “good foreign policy,” and extending to the ethics and principles underlying the statements and actions of the Romanian state in the field of international relations, Ion I. C. Brătianu tried to outline and emphasize the “general and permanent directives” of Romanian foreign policy, in a conceptualization effort meant to crystallize a national doctrine. He envisaged developing a Romanian Code of foreign policy, which established binding and permanent benchmarks, guidelines, ethics, conduct and principles. It should be noted that Brătianu’s approach - just like the author stated in the Parliament of Greater Romania in December 1919 - was inspired and followed a brilliant model of the international political stage: England. Only by following the English model, Brătianu insisted, could Romania engage in great politics.

Keywords: foreign policy, European policy, international relations, democratization, doctrine, ethics, principles, strategy

 
         
     
         
         
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