Istoria relatiilor internationale in sec. XX, relatiile Romaniei cu Finlanda, Tarile Baltice si Europa Nordica in sec. XIX-XX, istoria Europei Baltice si Nordice in sec. XX, Politica externa a Romaniei in sec. XX
Impletindu-si si despletindu-si destinele. Romania si Finlanda in timpul celui de-al Doilea Razboi Mondial
Publicatii recente (2009-2010):
Monografii s contributii:
Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, Jurnal de pe frontul romanesc (1916-1917), Ed. Cetatea de Scaun, Târgoviste, 2010 (editor)
Istoria Finlandei, . Cetatea de Scaun, Târgoviste, 2010 (coautor)
România în relatiile internationale: diplomatie, minoritati, istorie.In honorem Ion Calafeteanu, Ed. Cetatea de Scaun, Târgoviste, 2010 (editor)
O conceptie româneasca a Nordului. Sec. XIX-XX, Repertoriu de documente si trimiteri bibliografice,Editura Cetatea de Scaun, Târgoviste, 2009, 128 pp.
O conceptie româneasca a Nordului. Sec. XIX-XX,Editura Cetatea de Scaun, Târgoviste, 2009 (coautor)
Articole in reviste cu comitet de selectie a articolelor:
“From “allies without alliance” to concerted action: Romania and Finland in the aftermath of the Operation Barbarossa (1941)”, Revista Româna pentru Studii Baltice si Nordice, Vol. 2, Issue 2, 2010, pp. 249-284.
„Pactul Ribbentrop-Molotov si Finlanda: consecinte politice, teritoriale si demografice”, Studii si Materiale de Istorie Contemporana. Serie Noua. IX (2010), pp. 91-104.
“Nicolae Titulescu’s new eastern policy and the upgrading of Romania’s diplomatic ties with Lithuania”, Revista Româna pentru Studii Baltice si Nordice, Vol. 2, Issue 1, 2010, pp. 35-52.
“Converging their destinies: Romania and Finland in the new Soviet-Nazi order (March – September 1940)”, Studii si Materiale de Istorie Contemporana. Serie Noua. VIII (2009), pp. 47-58.
“Romania’s peace feelers (March 1943 - April 1944): views from Helsinki”,Valahian Journal of Historical Studies, Nr. 12, 2009, pp. 97-110.
„Mindsets and perceptions across Europe: Karl Gustaf Idman’s portray of Romanian corruption in the 1930s”, Annales d’Universite ”Valahia”, Section d’Archeologie et d’Histoire, Tome XI, Nombre 2, 2009, pp. 95-101.
Articole publicate la conferinte:
„Doua retorici cu privire la minoritatea bulgara din Dobrogea de Sud la Societatea Natiunilor (1927-1928)”, Partide politice si minoritati nationale din România în secolul XX, vol. 5, Ed.Techno Media, Sibiu, 2010, pp. 196-206.
„Românii si Comisia Nansen (1919-1921). Contributii”, în Vasile Ciobanu, Sorin Radu (eds.), Partide politice si minoritati nationale din România în sec. XX, Ed. Techno Media, Sibiu, 2009, p. 94-108.
„Statul scandinav ca un model pentru statul român în sec. al XX-lea. Istoria unei utopii”, în Sorin Liviu Damean, Lucian Dindirica (coord.), Stat si societate în Europa, Ed. Universitaria, Craiova, 2009, p. 363-386.
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.
Procedura de selectie a unui candidat pentru pozitia de asistent de cercetare s-a incheiat, iar persoana aleasa dintre cei 11 aplicanti este Costel Coroban de la Universitatea "Ovidius" din Constanta
