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

Updated:

February 6, 2012

Centrul de Cercetare a Istoriei Relatiilor Internationale si Studii Culturale "Grigore Gafencu" ["Grigore Gafencu" Research Center for the History of International Relations and Cultural Studies] este o institutie de cercetare autonoma, fara personalitate juridica, care functioneaza in cadrul Facultatii de Stiinte Umaniste a Universitatii Valahia din Targoviste. Centrul "Grigore Gafencu" se bucura de recunoasterea Consiliului National pentru Cercetare in Invatamantul Superior (CNCSIS).

Centrul are in vedere, in mod prioritar, cercetarea istoriei relatiilor internationale, din perspectiva moderna si contemporana, dar si a diverselor teme de istoria moderna si contemporana, adiacente domeniului prioritar. Aceste domenii tin cont de specializarea membrilor centrului si raspund intentiilor acestora de cercetare.

Activitatea centrului este coordonata de director, prof. univ. dr. Ion Stanciu, caruia ii revine sarcina de a coordona si evalua calitatea actului de cercetare, de a gandi diverse proiecte si teme de cercetare, de a asigura un climat de dialog stiintific in cadrul centrului. Intrunirile membrilor coletivului de cercetare au loc periodic, nu mai rar de o data pe luna, si urmaresc gandirea de noi strategii de cercetare, evaluarea etapelor parcurse in cursul cercetarii, analiza diverselor formule care pot face cercetarea mai eficienta. La un interval de sase luni are loc o intrunire speciala dedicata analizei mai largi a stadiului proiectelor de cercetare in care este implicat centrul.

Centrul coordoneaza o revista internationala proprie, initiata in 2004, Valahian Journal of Historical Studies (revista recunoscuta de CNCSIS, tip B+), cu aparitie bianuala, ajunsa la cel de-al 14-lea numar, in al carei colectiv de redactie sunt actualmente cercetatori si profesori de la universitati din Bulgaria, Finlanda, Franta, Italia, Lituania, Romania, Spania si Turcia, alaturi de sase dintre membrii echipei noastre de cercetare. Unul dintre membrii centrului, Conf.univ.dr. Silviu Miloiu, este redactorul-sef ai acestei revistei.

Activitatea centrului s-a materializat, de asemenea, intr-o serie de contracte de cercetare internationale si nationale.

Centrul numara 17 membri si 7 membri asociati, cadre didactice titulare ale Universitatii Valahia din Targoviste si doctoranzi la zi, dar si cadre didactice si cercetatori la alte institutii prestigioase din tara si din strainatate. Toti membri care fac parte din echipa de cercetare a centrului au o pregatire profesionala foarte buna si o experienta complexa de cercetare axata pe domeniile incare centrul isi desfasoara activitatea.

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.

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