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

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April 25, 2012

 

 

Project Team

Leader of the Project

Dr. Silviu Miloiu

Research topic: Accomplisher idealism versus realism in Romanian foreign policy (1930-1944): actors, institutions, issues, patterns of change

Contact: silviu.miloiu@centrulgafencu.ro


Senior researcher

Dr. Cezar Stanciu

Researcher, "Grigore Gafencu" Research Center for the History of International Relations

Research topic: Ideology as Instrument in Foreign Policy. The Case of Romania 1948-1968

Contact: cezar_stanciu2003@yahoo.com


Ph.D. Students

Elena Dragomir, MA

University of Helsinki

Research topic: Postwar Romanian foreign policy approaches: between realism and idealism

Contact: elena.dragomir@helsinki.fi


Iulia Barbu, MA

Valahia University of Targoviste

Research topic: Accomplisher idealism versus realism in Romanian foreign policy (1930-1944): actors, institutions, issues, patterns of change

Contact: mk_iulia2008@yahoo.com


Ana-Maria Despa, MA

Valahia University of Targoviste

Research topic: The analyses of the Romanian envoys accredited to Scandinavian countries regarding the Nordic collective and regional security discourses during the interwar period

Contact: anna3twin@yahoo.com


Alexandru Grigoriu, MA

Valahia University of Targoviste

Research topic: Ideology as Instrument in Foreign Policy. The Case of Romania 1948-1968

Contact: grigoriuvn_alexandru@yahoo.com


Magdalena Ionescu, MA

Valahia University of Targoviste

Research topic: The Romanian foreign policy discourse of human rights and minority rights (1945-1975)

Contact: ionescumagdalena2004@yahoo.com


Daniela Nica, MA

Valahia University of Targoviste

Research topic: Romania and the League of Nations: Romanian discourses on the collective security

Contact: danika30@yahoo.com


Florina Sorescu, MA

Valahia University of Targoviste

Research topic: Idealists in a realist world? The analyses of the Romanian envoys accredited to Fascist Italy regarding the Italian foreign policy discourses (1922-1940)

Contact: sflori13@yahoo.com

 

 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 īn politica externa a Romāniei de la Primul Razboi Mondial pāna īn 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 

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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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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

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