Documente Diplomatice Rom�. Seria I, Volumul 11; 1883. Ministerul Afacerilor Externe. Institutul Diplomatic Rom�

Einband berieben, eine Ecke bestossen, sonst sehr gutes Exemplar. Text in rum�sch und engl. - According to a contemporaneous statistic source, the diplomatic representations of the Romanian state (except for the consulates) were served in May 1882 by some 27 diplomats, meaning nine plenipotentiary ministers, 12 legation secretaries and 6 attach�(which actually meant almost the double compared with the diplomatic representation of Serbia, for instance, but also half as compared to the diplomatic representation of Belgium). The documents in this volume are mostly the product of the diplomats leading these missions, respectively of the Romanian decision factors, accredited with the foreign affairs field: the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the President of the Council of Ministers, the Sovereign. Chronologically, they cover the interval comprised between January 1 and December 31 (new style), 1883. From a thematic standpoint, the range is relatively varied - perhaps somehow ethereal, compared to those offered by the large diplomatic collections of states such as Germany, France, Italy or the United States - however obviously measured against the size of the Romanian diplomatic network of the time, and against the modest international problematic specific to a newly formed stated of the size, density and capacity of Romania; a thematic largely circumscribed to issues of direct interests and geographically restricted to the area of the old continent (a Romanian legation to Tokyo would be opened only on September 13, 1917, just as in the case of the New World, with the creation of the Washington legation on October 1, 1917), in direct connection with the South-Eastearn Europe, hence the large quantities of information pertaining to Balkan realities or generally to the so-called European Orient. Two issues particularly benefit from an ample representation in this documentation. These are two interdependent issues at a certain point and of great interest at the time, bringing the attention and concentrating a large portion of the efforts of the Romanian responsibles: the Danube navigation, the functioning and the prerogatives of the Danube European Commission, and, respectively, the foreign affairs policy and security strategy of Romania, defined at the end of 1883 by the orientation towards an alliance with the Central Empires.