Centrul pentru Cercetarea Istoriei Relatiilor Internationale si Studii Culturale "Grigore Gafencu"

Fellows Florin Anghel Dan Berindei Ion Calafeteanu Veniamin Ciobanu Gabriel Leanca Francesco Leoncini Katalin Miklossy Gheorghe Sbarna Bogdan Schipor Claudiu-Lucian Topor Davide Zaffi

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April 25, 2012

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Dr. Bogdan Alexandru Schipor

A.D. Xenopol Institute of History of the Romanian Academy

Senior Researcher in contemporary history in Iasi, at the “A.D.Xenopol” History Institute of the Romanian Academy. Born on 23 February 1977 in Suceava. Educated at “Al.I. Cuza” University of Iasi, and graduated in 1999. In-Depth (Advanced) Studies in International Relations at the same university, graduated in 2000. Ph.D in history of the “Al.I. Cuza” University of Iasi in 2007 with the dissertation The Great Britain foreign policy at the Soviet Union’s western border, 1938-1941.

Research areas:

International relations in interwar Europe with a focus on the policy of the great powers towards the countries of Eastern Europe and the history of the Romanian foreign policy during the interwar period and the Second World War.

Participant in several research projects organized and financed by the Romanian Academy or by the Romanian Ministry of Education.

Major Publications include:

- Marea Britanie si începuturile agresiunii sovietice în Europa, septembrie-octombrie 1939, în Lucian Leustean, Petronel Zahariuc, Dan Constantin Mâta (editori), In Honorem Ioan Ciuperca. Studii de istorie a românilor si a relatiilor internationale, Iasi, Editura Universitatii „Al.I. Cuza”, 2007

- Politica Marii Britanii la frontiera de vest a Uniunii Sovietice, 1938-1941, Iasi, Junimea, 2007.

Contact Information :
E-mail:bogdan_schipor@yahoo.it

What We Do

The research center bearing Grigore Gafencu`s name is focusing on research and study of the history of the European international relations, an area of investigation covered with specialists and young researchers for the period starting with the mid-19th century and focused on the 20th century. The center has already been involved in a number of national research grants founded by the Romanian Ministry of Education and in international grants. The center is also issuing its own review, Valahian Journal of Historical Studies, which has been opened ever since its inception to the voluntary contributions of fellow researchers from all around Europe and beyond.

Additionally, the center has been engaged from the very beginning in developing connections with other European institutions of research. Thus far, the center and its members are involved in academic exchanges with such universities from Finland (University of Helsinki and University of Turku), France (Universite de Poitiers, Universite de Savoie), Greece (University Democritus of Komotini), Italy (Universite ca Foscari di Venezia) and Spain (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha). The center is aiming at maintaining and developing these fruitful contacts and to promote new ones with other prestigious institutions of research at academic level whose scopes are similar and bordering its purposes.

About Us

"Grigore Gafencu" Research Center for the the History of International Relations and Cultural Studies, although young, is in terms of staff members and young researchers one of the best represented such research center in the Valahia University of Targoviste. The purpose of the center is to pay a quality tribute to the memory and activity of the prestigious Romanian diplomat and analyst Grigore Gafencu (1892-1957). A former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Romania (1938-1940) and his country`s envoy to Soviet Union in the fateful years of 1940-1941, Gafencu has moved to Switzerland since 1941. In exile, Gafencu wrote one of the earliest books approaching the causes of the World War II (Preliminaires de la Guerre a l'est. De l'accord de Moscou (23 Aout 1939) aux hostilites en Russie (22 Juin 1941), Egloff, Friburg, 1944), providing an exceptional insight on those troubling European events. The conclusion Gafencu drew from the developments leading to World War II has played their part in making him an active supporter of the ideas of European unity.

News and Events

Sedinta

Membrii grantului "Utopia versus realism în politica externa a României de la Primul Razboi Mondial pâna în 1975" sunt invitati la o sedinta de proiect pe data de 26 aprilie, orele 16.

Call for papers

Valahian Journal of Historical Studies, Call for papers,

No. 18 (2012) The Balkans in a time of economic and ideological crisis Deadline: 1 August 2012

Centrul "Grigore Gafencu" va invita joi, 22 martie 2012, orele 16, la conferinta lunara intitulata Relatiile economice romano-britanice (1945-1948), sustinuta de drd. Mihaela Diaconu.

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