Organizacja i funkcjonowanie korpusu dyplomatyczno-konsularnego Rumunii

Abstrakt

ORGANISATION AND FUNCTIONING OF THE DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR CORPS OF ROMANIA

The research on the Diplomatic and Consular Corps of Romania, its functioning and organisation, follows other studies on the foreign service of various states. The presented paper, thereby, focuses on the singular, longitudinal case study, that is structure, diplomatic and consular personnel, and consular activity too, since the end of 2019 to the beginning of 2024. This allows us to indicate a set of reforms of the Corps that were adopted during the analysed period as well as to explore a specific character of the service. The paper tests the claim of whether the Corps’ structure is in the line with the classic organisational model of diplomacy of contemporary states. To do so, the answer to the main question posed is searched, namely how, and which of the adopted reforms influenced the Corps’ structure during the concerned period. To respond to this question, three main issues were researched: organisation, path of career, and directions of changes of the Corps. The lessons learned are included in the conclusion. The purpose of the paper is thus to analyse the case study of the contemporary Diplomatic and Consular Corps of Romania, taking into account both domestic and international context of the changes that were introduced.