... and 400,000, and Romania about 50,000, mostly in Dobruja. Megleno-Romanians (speaking Megleno- Romanian language) are living in the Greek province of Meglen, with a population of 12,000. Istro- Romanians (speaking Istro-Romanian language) are living in Croatia, with a population of less than 1,000. See Tom...

.... As Warsaw bloc forces gathered and began exercise maneuvers along Romania’s borders with the Soviet Union, Hungary, and Bulgaria, the Romanian armed forces prepared for a long fight. Watts appears convinced that it was mainly Romania’s determination to carry out a prolonged fight that deterred...

... Reviews  117 Romania braced itself for an anticipated a Soviet Bloc invasion similar to the inva- sion of Czechoslovakia. As Warsaw bloc forces gathered and began exercise maneuvers along Romania’s borders with the Soviet Union, Hungary, and Bulgaria, the Romanian armed forces prepared for a long...

... Reviews  117 Romania braced itself for an anticipated a Soviet Bloc invasion similar to the inva- sion of Czechoslovakia. As Warsaw bloc forces gathered and began exercise maneuvers along Romania’s borders with the Soviet Union, Hungary, and Bulgaria, the Romanian armed forces prepared for a long...

... proper place in an extremely fluid world or risk marginalization for the next thirty to fifty years. Romanian Security Prior to 1989 To understand where Romania is heading, one needs to review history to see where it’s come from. Once one looks at the details and minutia, the speci...

...Marian Zulean Marian Zulean works for the office of the Romanian president as an expert on NATO and U.S. issues. This essay has been written with the support of a NATO-Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council research fellowship. An earlier version was presented at the 2002 International Political...

... Division,Romanian Ministry of National Defense. Bridging the Gap in Civil-Military Relations in Southeastern Europe: Romania’s Defense-Planning Case George Cristian Maior and Mihaela Matei The purpose of this study is to analyze and assess what...

... complex in the Crimea.81 However, Romania’s relationship with Rus- sia was described by the former Romanian foreign minister, Mircea Geoana, in November 2010 as “very bad,” indicating that despite improved relations with Ukraine, Russia still faces a challenging maritime security environment...

...George Cristian Maior; Mihaela Matei Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2005 George Cristian Maior is state secretary for defense policy for Romania. Mihaela Matei is head of the strategic affairs directorate, Romanian Ministry of Defense. The Black Sea Region in an Enlarged Europe...

... people to gain autonomy, in the late 1820s, followed by the Serbs (1830), Romanians (1856), and Bulgarians (1878). The Albanians were the last to achieve statehood, which did not come about until 1912. Though formally independent, Balkan states faced...

... and exacerbates insecurity. The Russian annexation of Crimea, as well as the buildup of its power-­ projection capabilities, led the former Romanian president, Victor Ponta, to call for an increase in defense spending. Speaking less than a month after the Ukrainian loss of Crimea, Ponta claimed...

...- prise all the powers bordering on the Black Sea. His Romanian colleague, who was also at the luncheon, was said to have treated the idea very coolly. But Aktay was less certain.20 17. Ibid. 18. Ibid., no. 560, Memorandum by Weizsacker, 10...

..., and porous borders — rendered Greece an attractive place for Albanians, Bulgarians, Romanians, and other East- ern Europeans as well as for migrants from lands as far away as India and Afghanistan. The avalanche of mostly undocumented economic refugees that began in the early 1990s constitutes one...

...–1953,” Middle East Journal 9, no. 1 (1955): 42–3. 82 Mediterranean Quarterly: Spring 2003 of an actual threat.9 In June 1934, Turkey concluded separate military agreements with Yugoslavia and Romania, but at the same time it made it known that it would not be drawn into a Soviet-Romanian...

... Kosovo. The victims were not just Serbs but members of other minority ethnic groups, including Bulgarians, Romanians, Greeks, Roma, and Jews.22 Western authorities also have done little as Christian religious sites — many with great historical importance — have been desecrated or obliterated...

... of the Romanian revolution of 1989: “Both coups and revolutions are extra-­legal take-­overs of power, but . . . a coup has a certain ring of illegality and is perceived as conspiratorial rather than ‘open’ and ‘spontaneous.’ ”15 In Tunisia, the “open” and “spontaneous” nature of 14. Samuel P...

... to the nineteenth centu- ries. They were painted in a variety of styles within the framework of post- Byzantine and Orthodox Baroque art. Most of them were done by Serbian and Greek iconographers, although a significant number of Russian, Bul- garian, and Romanian icons also were to be found in the Bosnian...

... an avenue for 31. Fulvio Attinà, “Diversity in Unity: The European Union and Member States Emergency Aid to the Countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region,” Romanian Journal of Euro- pean Affairs 15, no. 2 (2015): 42 – 56. 32. Francis Fukuyama argued in his 1989 essay “The End...

..., www.archons.org/pdf/coc_decision_on_patriarchate.pdf. Yannas: The Soft Power of the Ecumenical Patriarchate  85 andria, and Jerusalem) and newer patriarchates (Moscow, Romanian, and Serbian) and the fifteen autocephalous churches. In short, he is first among equals but has no power...

... the course of the following months, some two hundred forty thousand people fled or were driven from Kosovo. And the vic- tims were not just Serbs but members of other minority ethnic groups, includ- ing Bulgarians, Romanians, Greeks, Roma (so-­called Gypsies), and Jews.22 Yet US and European Union...