Romanian Geographical Thought

In view of the number and extent of territorial changes affecting the Romanian people for political reasons in the space of just a few centuries, it is easy to see that geopolitics has become one of the most important cornerstones of Romanian political and public thinking with good reason. Geography has gained an important position among other branches of science exploring the causality of war, because it was able to adopt an investigative approach. This resulted in the emergence of human geography and political geography, and the birth of geopolitics after all, although to the present day there is no consensus on whether it is a science or not. The new “science„ almost swept over Europe, including Hungary and Romania. In the Socialist era, geopolitics was a taboo subject, except on those occasions when the “unscholarly” views of the opposing imperialistic world were condemned. Yet, it would be desirable to acquire a more thorough knowledge of the Romanian geopolitical thinking in our world of integration, all the more so because Romania, our neighbour is home to the largest number of ethnic Hungarian population. The fundamental method and tool of this much-needed book dealing with the history of the Romanian geopolitical school is the exploration and publication of the sources.