Politica externă a României: o comparație între anii 1980-1990

Abstract

The study will present Romania’s foreign relations in the 1980s, with states such as: the Soviet Union, the
United States of America, Middle Eastern countries and France. It will also discuss what was the external
debt. In the second part, we will focus on Romania’s foreign policy in the 1990s, during which there
were relations with states such as: the Soviet Union, the United States of America, the sub-Saharan states,
Hungary, the Republic of Moldova, Central Asian states, but also relations with European and EuroAtlantic organizations such as: NATO, the European Union or the Council of Europe. Joining them was
the main objective for Romania in the first decade after communism. And in the third part of the study,
the comparative conclusions that appear from the first two parts will be presented. If the first period was
one dominated by the authoritarian system of Nicolae Ceaușescu, the second one wanted Romania to
move towards democracy, so our country experienced a new stage in foreign relations.The present study was
carried out by qualitative and comparative analysis of specialized articles and books. I wanted to show how
Romania’s foreign policy evolved, from one period to another, following the change of the political regime
in 1989 - the two periods being diametrically opposed.