HADRIAN GORUN, “ROMANIA AND THE GREAT WAR. INTRODUCTION TO A HISTORY AND THEORY OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

INTRODUCTION TO A HISTORY AND THEORY OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS" Argonaut and Mega publishing houses, Cluj-Napoca Year of publication: 2021 Number of pages: 191 As it is known, the First World War is the phenomenon that had the deepest implications on the very dramatic twentieth century. [...]Hadrian Gorun has a long activity dedicated either to the field of international relations or related to the history of Romania in the years of the World War I, an activity materialized in several works such as "International Relations in the Twentieth century: In his massive volume, "Politics between Nations", one of the most influential works ever written in the field of international relations, Hans Morgenthau set out the principles of political realism, to which the others are subsumed: politics is governed by objective laws, rooted in human nature; the main indicator of political realism is the concept of interest, defined in terms of power; this key concept is a universally valid category, but it does not have an immutable fixed meaning; political realism is aware of the moral significance of political action; political realism refuses to identify the moral aspirations of an individual nation with the moral laws that govern the universe; therefore, there are profound and real differences between political realism and other schools of thought. First of all, the Romanian state pursued its national interest, materialized in the annexation of the nearby provinces, which had a significant Romanian population, if not a majority.