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FOREWARD………………………..05Forward.pdf

I. Ion Stanciu, Romania’s first encounter with the large Western investments,

II. Laura Oncescu, Italy’s Image in the Perception of the Romanian Students

and Travelers during the First Half of the 19th Century ……………………………07Oncescu.pdf

III. Cezar Stanciu, The Russian views of Europe at the end of the nineteenth

century ………………….08Stanciu.pdf

I. Silviu Miloiu, Elena Dragomir, Oana Laculiceanu, Livia-Anisoara

Lita, Mapping the European ideas of nationalism and modernisation in Nordic and Baltic

and Estonia……..09Miloiu.pdf

II. Nicolae Stan, Some notes concerning Romania’s way to modernisation

I. Gheorghe Sbârna, The Interparliamentary Conferences. Elements of

Participation to the Construction of the European Ideas……………………………11Sbarna.pdf

II. Iulian Nicusor Isac, The United States of Greater Austria – a step towards

European Union? ………………….12Isac.pdf

I. Iulian Oncescu, The French Consular Reports: a Consistent Source of

1859……………………………13Oncescu.pdf

FOREWORD……………………………. 9 06Forward.pdf

I. Ion Stanciu, Two Foreign Accounts on the Romanian Modern Identity in

Century …………………………………………………………… 11 07StanciuIon2.pdf

II. Iulian Oncescu, Laura Oncescu, The Image of the Romanian Society in

France (1859-1878)……………………………………………… 21 08Oncescu2.pdf

III. Gheorghe Sbârna, The Interparliamentary Conferences. Elements of

Decade…………………………………………………………… 41 09Sbarna2.pdf

IV. Cezar Stanciu, The Odyssey of a Paralel Path to Europe: Essay on the

Concept of Russian Specificity from Slavophilism to Stalinism ……………… 65 10CezarStanciu2.pdf

V. Oana Laculiceanu, Denmark’s Foreign Policies in the Inter-war Period:

between Norden and Europe…………………………………………… 87 11Laculiceanu2.pdf

VI. Silviu Miloiu, Elena Dragomir, Alexandru Stefanescu, Projects for a

Perceptions…………. 103 12MiloiuDragomir2.pdf

TABLE OF CONTENTS TOC-Dibido.pdf

Contributors....................................................................................................................................9

Foreword..............................................................................................……………………………...11 Intro-Dibido.pdf

Silviu Miloiu, Europe as Viewed from the Margins. An East-Central European Perspective during the 19th and 20th Centuries. The Curriculum of a Research Project.........13

Catalin Turliuc, Mirror’s Distorsion. Nationalism, Modernisation and Borderlands in Central Eastern Europe ………………………………………………............................…………… 15

Alina Timoasca, Rethinking EU frontiers: Romania's Contribution to the European Neighbourhood Policy..................................................................................................................25

Simona Stefanescu, Europe as Social Representations...................................................35.

Ana Maria Oteanu, Are we there yet? Socio-Cultural Aspects of Romanian International Labour Migration after 1990………………………………………………………………………...45

Constantin Viorel Mihai, Retrouver l’Europe – une Approche des Bénéficiaires Roumains des Programmes Communautaires pendant la Période Postcommuniste………..…57

Tuomas Hovi, Dracula Tourism and Romania......................................................................73

Çigdem Üstün, Love and Hate Relationship between Turkey and Europe: A Historical Analysis of Turkey’s Relations with Europe......................................................................... 85

Emanuel Plopeanu, Looking West: Considerations about the Significance of Turkey’s Adhesion to NATO.............................................................................................................................97

Ion Stanciu, Nicolae Titulescu – Promoter of International Economic Cooperation. Overview and Study-case: Romanian-British Relations.....................................................109

Ion Calafeteanu, Grigore Gafencu and the Hague Congress of Europe (1948).........119

Gheorghe Sbârna, Le rôle International de la Conférence de l’Union Interparlementaire de Bucarest de 1931...................................………………………………………………………………...129

Bogdan-Alexandru Schipor, A British Initiative in Peace and War. The Balkan Neutral Block Project in 1939………………………………………………………………………...................145

Silviu Miloiu, New Wine in Old Bottles. The League of Nations from Hopes to Disillusion: Lithuanian Perspectives.................................................................................................................155

Florin Anghel, About Strangers and Unknowns. Romanian Political Elites towards Lithuania in the First Years of Independence after 1918..................................................163

Oana Gabriela Laculiceanu,  A Glance towards the North. The Danish Model and the Romanian Social-Economic Organization in the Interwar Period...................................171

Nicolae Razvan Mitu, National Political Programs in Central and South-Eastern Europe: Myth and Reality................................................................................................................................183

Raul Michael Cârstocea, A Marginal Group on Europe’s Margin. Anti-Semitism in Romania from the Congress of Berlin to “The Legion of the Archangel Michael”.......................189

Radu Florian Bruja, Romania’s Minorities in the National Revival Front..................201

Vlad Alexandru Puscasu, Communism as a Principal Difference between Eastern and Western Europe......................................................................................................................................213

Cezar Stanciu,  With or Without the Western Allies? Romanian Policy towards Britain in the Aftermath of World War II......................................................................................................227

Mioara Anton, From East to West: Romania’s Exit from the Soviet Sphere of Influence: 1960-1965.............................................................................................................................................239

Elena Dragomir, Preparing the CSCE.  Romanian Definitions and Perceptions on European security.......................................................................................................................................................247

Iulian Oncescu, Opinion Publique et Opinion Politique Roumaine pendant la Guerre Franco-Prussienne (1870-1871)………………………….…………………………………………..263

Ovidiu Basceanu, Considerazioni, guardando lo Sviluppo Industriale d’Italia e Romania.  Nella Seconda Mezzo di Ottocento fino a Prima Guerra Mondiale: Convergenze e Differenze................................................................................................................................................293

Editors: Silviu Miloiu, Iulian Oncescu, Ion Stanciu. Sample-Dibido.pdf

This volume is the third and last issue in the series of contributions conceived to achieve the research project 'Europe as Viewed from the Margins. An East-Central Perspective during the 19th and 20th centuries". This time it contains the contributions presented on the occasion of the conference organized by the 'Grigore Gafencu' Study Centre for the History of International Relations initiated by the members and associates of the Centre in order to complete the above-mentioned project. From this angle the volume present here points to even larger perspectives than our previous intentions and contributions included in the first two volumes.
This new benefit is obviously due to our extra-team papers for which we are grateful to our guests who attended the conference organized in Targoviste on December 12-14, 2007. From this point of view, we appreciate the dialogue occasioned by the conference as being fruitful, both for the participants involved and for the subjects under discussion. Especially the young contributors both from Romania and from abroad (Finland, Great Britain, Turkey) can be seen as providing fresh suggestions and openings, widening our own limits, beyond our initial viewpoints.
The papers included in this volume approach the vision of Europe from various angles and perspectives. This is the outcome of the fact that the conference gathered specialists from different fields of research: history, international relations, sociology, political science, folkloristics and so forth. On the one hand, this enriches the argumentation and permits a better comprehension of the concepts and situations involved. For instance, the notion of Europe and its changing images and perceptions is considered from the perspective of the historian in case of Mioara Anton, Ion Calafeteanu, Elena Dragomir, lulian Oncescu, Emanuel Plopeanu or Catalin Turliuc's contributions, from the standpoint of the sociologist in Simona Stefanescu's contribution, from the angle of migration studies in case of Ana Maria Oteanu and Constantin Viorel Mihai's contributions, from the point of view of international relations in Alina Timoasca or Cigdem Ustun's contributions. Interferences and confluences between peripheral and core Europe are investigated with the outlook of the folklorist in Tuomas Hovi's contribution, from the angle of political science in Vlad Alexandru Puscasu's contribution and from the viewpoint of the historian in Florin Anghel, Ovidiu Basceanu, Oana Gabriela Laculiceanu, Silviu MiJoiu, Gheorghe Sbarna, Bogdan-Alexandru Schipor, Cezar Stanciu and Ion Stanciu's papers. A special mention should be also made of the impact and perception of nationalism on East-Central Europe as achieved in Radu Florian Bruja, Raul Michael Carstocea and Nicolae Razvan Mitu's contributions. On the other hand, it contributed to the fact that the links between the contributions are sometimes loose and the conclusions the authors reach at are - perhaps not so frequently though - at variance with each other.
Because Europe itself is not defined by unity but rather by unity in diversity and consequently the perception of Europe may not be different, we have decided to allow each author to bring in her own vision and understanding of the process. Nevertheless, in order to facilitate the access of the reader to those papers answering his interest, keywords and abstracts have been integrated at the beginning of each contribution integrated in the volume.
Regardless the diversity of the contributions integrated in this volume, some common traits can still be found. The idea that core Europe can not necessarily be seen as 'the other' to peripheral Europe and that the common features prevail over the not-negligible-differences is expressed in many contributions such as those signed by Calafeteanu, Dragomir, Hovi, Mitu, Oteanu, Puscasu, Sbarna, Stefanescu or Timoasca. An interesting case is that of Turkey whose relations with Europe and representations of Europe have acknowledged many vicissitudes especially during the recent years tending to become for an important segment of the Turkish and Western European population 'the other'. Plopeanu and Ustiin's papers offer an interpretation of this ebb and flow relationship between Turkey and Europe, which the latter researcher vividly depicts it as a 'love and hate' intercourse. The idea that Western Europe has often served as a model, an archetype of Europeanness, culture and civilization and its influence on the self-perception of people of East-Central Europe also come out from many contributions even when they investigate different themes seen from different angles: Basceanu, Hovi, Laculiceanu, Mihai, Oncescu, Oteanu, Schipor, I. Stanciu, Stefanescu are g00(j examples in this respect. Laculiceanu scrutinizes, however, more the differences between the model Denmark and the duplicate Romania which fails constantly to reproduce the prototype. Schipor analyzes the Balkan Block of Neutrals and reaches the conclusion that Britain played the most important role in designing the project which the Balkan nations have ever since striven to assume as their merit. The complexes, the challenges and the opportunities of borderland are also frequently investigated in these contributions, particularly in Anghel, Anton, Bruja, Calafeteanu, Carstocea, Dragomir, Miloiu, Mitu, Sbarna, C. Stanciu, Timoasca and Turliuc's papers. Turliuc denies that a stiff fault between Western and East-Central Europe exists and sees the latter in terms of a borderland or bridge between Europe and 'the other'. Timoasca goes even further and approaches Romania's new status as an EU member state and her contribution to the European Neighbourhood Policy. The idea that East-Central Europe can be viewed as a contributor to Europeanness surfaces from Calafeteanu or Sbarna's contributions. The complexes of borderland cultures are dealt with in Carstocea's contribution about the Legion of Archangel Michael which points to the rift between idealist ideology and rude practice of the members of this movement Finally, Lithuania as a case study on the challenges of borderlands is handled in Anghel and Miloiu's contributions, while the case of communist Romania is tackled in Anton, Dragomir and C. Stanciu's contributions.
Without further insisting on each contributor's paper, we appreciate them all as an additional and encouraging impulse for further studies in the field inaugurated by our project.

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