The modernization of Romania anf „Russian menace" – 15 ianuarie 2016
Following is a lesson in comparative policy by the historian Mircea Platon. Romania's not being a major European power has made it into the object of a series of designs, which since the second half of the 19th century have been presented to Romanians as modernization projects. Defining and pursuing the national interest becomes, in countries like Romania, akin to a high wire act. Indeed, the difficulty of acting according to their own interests revisits the Romanians, citizens and elites alike, with the frequency of the major discontinuities reshaping the world (WWI, WWII, Cold War, and the compressed life-cycle of the uni-polar world).
Platon's study delivers a longitudinal analysis of sorts centered on the Romanian elites' positioning relative to the overbearing neighbor to the East, Czarist Russia, USSR, and now the Russian Federation. One additional comparative dimension of the study is the assessment of the balancing act of national interest West Germany performed between the two superpowers of the Cold War.
The student of Romanian history learns several aspects that add substance to the usual schemes in which history is being transmitted and received. The student and practitioner of policy is also well served by the bi-dimensional comparisons between then and now, respectively the Romanian and German pursuits of national interest. The skeptics of policy comparisons could argue, on epistemological grounds, that No man ever steps in the same river twice, but practitioners in pursuit of their country's national interest would be well advised to take notice.
Grupul Prospectiv™ : The Modernization of Romania and the "Russian Menace" – Mircea Platon
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