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- Title
Romania's Foreign Policy in the Middle East during the Cold War: The Communist Leadership's Quest for Legitimacy and the Origin of of Nicolae Ceau§escu's Wish to Win the Nobel Peace Prize.
- Authors
DOBRE, MIHAIL
- Abstract
There are times when small nations can make "great history," and after 1964 Romania made such a history for a decade or so. The communist government in Bucharest--and to a far lesser extent the Romanian people--benefited from the international perception that its foreign policy was able to generate in the specific environment of the Cold War. The honors with which Nicolae Ceausescu was received everywhere in the civilized world were the most visible expression of this state of affairs. A key dimension of the Romanian foreign policy was its focus on the crisis in the Middle East. The Bucharest leadership was widely praised for intermediating the contacts between Israel and Egypt, which ultimately led to the signing of the 1978 Camp David Accords. The reasons behind this foreign policy of the Bucharest regime arc investigated in-depth, as the Romanian leaders themselves surprisingly stated that they were not mediators in that crisis, while investing a great deal of energy and resources in finding a solution to it. One interesting explanation arose from the archives of the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which ascribes Ceausescu's efforts in the Middle East to the elusive dream of gaining the international recognition brought by the Nobel Peace Prize.
- Subjects
MIDDLE East; BUCHAREST (Romania); ROMANIA; NOBEL Peace Prize; INTERNATIONAL relations; COLD War, 1945-1991; ARAB-Israeli peace process; SMALL states
- Publication
Transylvanian Review, 2023, Vol 32, Issue 2, p108
- ISSN
1221-1249
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.33993/tr.2023.2.07