Romania in U.S. Foreign Policy, 1945-1970. A Contextual Framework
Book Details
Author(s)Lucian Bogdan
PublisherLucian Bogdan
ISBN / ASINB006JTTY94
ISBN-13978B006JTTY99
Sales Rank1,234,151
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
Lucian Bogdan's work, titled "Romania in US Foreign Policy, 1945-1970. A Contextual Framework", is intended as a way of providing the reader with a concise, yet comprehensive way of understanding the events having shaped the United States’ relations with Romania (which would often prove the most interesting case of Eastern Europe) throughout the harshest years of the Cold War.
While books dedicated to bilateral diplomatic relations - as is "Romania in U.S. Foreign Policy, 1945-1970. Bilateral Relations as Recounted in the Diplomatic Correspondence of the Times" (664 pp.), by the same author, available in paperback on Amazon.com - do bring novel aspects into the spotlight, which prove interesting for the lay reader and scholar alike, they inherently have to sacrifice readability and conciseness, for the sake of the abundance of detail and following the dense web of archival documents they use as primary resource.
Evoking the context in which the events took place also needs a severe trimming down, in order for the text not to digress on too many parallel lines.
Therefore, a reader's companion may prove more than handy - this being the intention of the volume herein: to offer the reader a brief overview of the key events of the Cold War, of the major conceptual aspects, as well as to highlight the main personalities having played a key role in the shaping of their course.
All this is backed by a solid critical apparatus - notes and an extensive bibliographical list, so that students and even scholars interested in the subject of inquiry can find a quick starting base for farther research.
While books dedicated to bilateral diplomatic relations - as is "Romania in U.S. Foreign Policy, 1945-1970. Bilateral Relations as Recounted in the Diplomatic Correspondence of the Times" (664 pp.), by the same author, available in paperback on Amazon.com - do bring novel aspects into the spotlight, which prove interesting for the lay reader and scholar alike, they inherently have to sacrifice readability and conciseness, for the sake of the abundance of detail and following the dense web of archival documents they use as primary resource.
Evoking the context in which the events took place also needs a severe trimming down, in order for the text not to digress on too many parallel lines.
Therefore, a reader's companion may prove more than handy - this being the intention of the volume herein: to offer the reader a brief overview of the key events of the Cold War, of the major conceptual aspects, as well as to highlight the main personalities having played a key role in the shaping of their course.
All this is backed by a solid critical apparatus - notes and an extensive bibliographical list, so that students and even scholars interested in the subject of inquiry can find a quick starting base for farther research.
