‘We still don’t know’. Cold War Romania’s foreign policy – A critical historiographical commentary
Journal: Revista Română de istorie a secolului XX
Year: 2026

This historiographical overview presents a brief yet comprehensive and critical summary of the historiographical approaches to Cold War Romania’s foreign policy. It tentatively identifies three historiographical schools of thought: the orthodox, the revisionist and the new school. The first developed during the Cold War in the West, entered Romania in the 1990s and survived as the dominant paradigm of interpretation to this day. Initiated in the 1980s and settled in the 1990s, the second was the