Trianon şi „Calvarul Păcii” – dreptul unei naţiuni şi autodeterminarea naţională de la Wilson la Ehrlich

Abstract

While for Hungary the Peace Conference in Paris after the First World War traditionally means in the first place the “crucifixion” concluded by the Treaty of Trianon, the Romanian historiography of the interwar period considered the negotiations also under the terms of a Calvary Path. The following study aims to put under scrutiny this remarcable coincidence by intercalating the overview on the Romanian peace negotiations (II) between a new reading of the Wilsonian “Fourteen Points” within the context of Woodrow Wilson’s own academic scholarship (I) and the understanding of the Fall of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy by the famous jurist Eugen Ehrlich from the perspective of his connections with the Romanian scholars Dimitrie Gusti and Nicolae Iorga (III), aiming to establish a connection between Wilson’s genuine “organic realism” and Ehrlich’s views on law and national consciousness as organic outcomes of a free society.