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Vlad, Adam (2017)

Romanian Involvement in the Transnistrian War - Geopolitical Ambition or Fear of Instability?

Master thesis | International Relations (MA)

This historical thesis challenges the current consensus among scholars that Romania’s involvement in the 1992 Transnistrian War, on the side of the Moldovan government, was motivated only by desire for reunification with its former territory of Bessarabia. The historical relationship between Romania and Moldova, the ethnic dynamics and distributions of Transnstria and the extent of Romanian intervention in the war are presented and analysed. A case is made that the Romanian government’s immediate goal was not a political union Moldova, but maintaining stability.

Transnistria

War

Romania

Moldova

Cold War

Communism

Ethnic Conflict

Geopolitics

Author

Vlad, Adam

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Specialisation

International Studies

Supervisors

Lukas, Milevski

ECTS Credits

10

Language

en