THE MINORITY ISSUE IN THE CONTEXT OF ROMANIAN-YUGOSLAV RELATIONS BETWEEN DECEMBER 1989-JUNE 1991

摘要

THIS PAPER WILL TRY TO BRING INTO FOCUS THE EVOLUTION OF THE MINORITY ISSUE IN THE CONTEXT OF A PREVIOUSLY UNCHARTED SEGMENT OF THE HISTORY OF ROMANIANYUGOSLAV RELATIONS, SPANNING BETWEEN TWO TURNING POINTS IN THE HISTORY OF THE TWO COUNTRIES: THE DECEMBER 1989 ROMANIAN REVOLUTION AND THE BEGINNING OF THE YUGOSLAV WARS OF SECESSION IN JUNE 1991. FREED FROM THE IDEOLOGICAL CONSTRAINTS OF THE COMMUNIST DISCOURSE, THE MINORITY ISSUE WILL HOLD A CENTRAL PLACE IN THE ROMANIAN-YUGOSLAV DIALOGUE OF THE EARLY POST-COLD WAR ERA AND WILL FACILITATE A NEW DYNAMIC IN THE COOPERATION BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES, NOT ONLY AT A BILATERAL LEVEL BUT ALSO IN THE WIDER FRAMEWORK OF REGIONAL COOPERATION.