%0 Journal Article
%T Wan light of Lithuania in Bucharest. The sources of a non-declared divorce (1918-1926)
%A Florin Anghel
%J Revista Romana de Studii Baltice si Nordice
%D 2010
%I Asociatia Romana pentru Studii Baltice si Nordice
%X Between the Acts of Union and, respectively, of Independence of 1918 and 1926 Romania and Lithuania shared no strategic interests or common regional politics. Although the Bucharest diplomacy insistently asked Warsaw to debate over its Baltic policy, at the end the Romanian-Polish anti-Soviet alliance became one of the most important pieces of so-called ¡°cordon sanitaire¡± geopolitics, which included Baltic and Black Seas regions countries, but no Lithuania. Both states became locked in cold relations with no contacts and no recognition (until August 1924), which was due to regional politics, but contrary to common interests. The diplomatic relations, officially opened in August 1924, lacked any practical political consequences. The Kaunas coup d¡¯¨¦tat of December 1926 had little political and media impacts in Bucharest and, in the rarely definitions of Antanas Smetona new nationalist regime, most of Romanians condemned it (contrary with their attitude towards the coup d¡¯¨¦tat of Warsaw in May 1926). It was only in the last half of the ¡®30s that between Bucharest and Kaunas new avenues in bilateral relations had opened, the impact of the fortunate decision of foreign minister Nicolae Titulescu in 1934 to create a Romanian Legation to cover Lithuania.
%K Romania
%K Lithuania
%K regional politics
%K non-recognition
%K coup d¡¯¨¦tat
%U http://www.arsbn.ro/user/image/04-anghel.pdf