To browse Academia. As an autonomous and independent organ, it employed a complex transnational bureaucracy and regulated shipping along the Danube through a comprehensive set of internationally accepted rules and procedures.
The Commission is portrayed as an effective experimental organisation, taken as a model for further cooperation in the international system. For opinions on building the section of the line through Manchuria cf.
Around February , Russian experts completed a survey of the anticipated railway route, and on 18 April , Count Cassini, the Russian Envoy in Beijing, informed officials in the Zongli Yamen of their plan to build the railway line through Manchuria.
To begin with, however, the Envoy failed in acquiring China's consent. The North China Herald newspaper, published in English in Shanghai, in an article entitled Special convention between Russia and China,12 said that during negotiations in spring , the Envoy had managed to make China sign a document which related to Russo-Chinese cooperation in the event of war, and also gave consent to the construction of a railway line through Manchuria. We have analyzed in this paper issues such as the reaffirmation of the principle of freedom of navigation on the Danube by the Peace Treaty of , the adoption of the Belgrade Convention of 18 August and the regulation of navigation on the Danube by the provisions in the content of this international legal instrument, as well as new regional realities related to the EU integration of eastern Europe borderline Romania and Bulgaria.
Istorie, t. III, , Sir John Stokes, the first British representative in the European Commission of the Danube, wrote a little known account of his life. This second part of the paper contains excerpts from three chapters of his memories, dealing with the works of the international institution in the period of time spanning from to In recent years, International Relations scholarship has looked back to the 19 th century as a watershed epoch for the formation of the current international order and the development of 'Standards of Civilization' to legitimate that order.
