The Behavioural Dynamics of Romania’s Foreign Policy in the Late 1990s: the Drive for Security and the Politics of Voluntary Servitude

The Behavioural Dynamics of Romania’s Foreign Policy in the Late 1990s: the Drive for Security and the Politics of Voluntary Servitude

Eduard Rudolf ROTH

Abstract. This article investigates the nature, the magnitude and the impact of the exogenously articulated preferences in the articulation of Romania’s foreign policy agenda and behavioural dynamics during the period 1996-2000. In this context, the manuscript will explore Romania’s NATO and (to a lesser extent) EU accession bids, within an analytical framework defined by an overlapped interplay of heterochthonous influences, while trying to set out for further understanding how domestic preferences can act as a transmission belt and impact on foreign policy change in small and medium states.

Keywords: Romanian foreign policy, NATO enlargement, EU enlargement, Russian-Romanian relations, Romanian-NATO relations, Romania-EU relations.

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