Revisiting Romania's Regional Approach Lessons from the Recent Past

This paper seeks to determine whether the regionalization presently occurring in Romania could be traced back to certain historical events of the 20th century, events which, summed up, could be seen more or less as a regionalization attempt. Our research looks at the interwar years, the Soviet-influenced postwar years, and the era of national-communism. After identifying facts and actions of economic, political or administrative relevance that illustrate and sometime epitomize the economic dimension of the regional evolution of the country, we conclude with some interrogations concerning the historical endogenous vs. exogenous grounds for establishing the proper coordinates of today's Romanian regionalization policy.