Romania and the Armistice with the United Nations in International Relations

Abstract

Romania’s changing sides on August 23rd to the United Nations would bring the Romanian state back into the “large team of democratic states” only for a short period of time. The international position of the newly established government in Bucharest would improve considerably, within the limits allowed by the inheritance of a military alliance with a Germany which although powerful at the beginning of the conflict, it was now on the verge of losing the war.

Keywords

• armistice; military alliance; strategic initiative; external policy; volta-face