Every small state lives inside a truth it never chose. Long before it can write its own story, its fate is already being shaped by a struggle for power among nations far larger than itself. It is the premise realism has insisted on since the discipline began — and the starting point from which this book sets out to test, two centuries of Romanian history at a time, whether power is the whole story, or only half of it.
„International politics, like all politics, is a struggle for power.” — Hans J. Morgenthau
