Italian Center for Turkish Studies
21/2/2008Online il sito dell’ICTS, con il primo occasional paper a cura del Dr. Kemal Kaya.
Per il Wider Black Sea Programme è in preparazione il Working Paper
The Emerging Strategic Dynamics in the Wider Black Sea Area
Federico BordonaroEuropean Union’s and N.A.T.O.’s enlargements toward East have fundamentally changed the relationship between Western and Eastern Europe. Western liberal-democracy and the U.S.-led Euro-Atlantic security architecture have penetrated deeply into what was once the Warsaw Pact, Russia-led Eastern Europe and they are attracting into their orbit former Soviet Union’s republics like Ukraine, Georgia, and Azerbaijan.
In the new context, the so-called “Wider Black Sea Region” emerges as a complex and still to be defined area. It encompasses the Black Sea’s riparian states (Russia, Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, and Georgia) and a set of nations that are more or less directly linked to the sea’s basin (Moldova, Greece, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Serbia, Albania, and possibly Macedonia and Montenegro). It connects the Euro-Atlantic political-strategic axis with the Russia-dominated Eurasian heartland, Turkey, and the Middle East. Arguably, it is one of the post-Cold War era’s more important macro-regions. Classical military-strategic security, energy security, and social issues are intertwined aspects of the region’s strategic dynamics.
