Prospective studies of the Wider Black Sea Region - FORMAT PDF

The strategic relevance and geopolitical quandaries of the wider Black Sea region are a topic of inherent importance for România's foreign policy. I would argue that this has been even more the case since the end of the Cold War.
Citește tot rezumatul cărții Prospective studies of the Wider Black Sea Region... Following successive enlargements of the Euro-Atlantic realm and, over the last decade, emerging elements of a global order re-design, we find ourselves at a high point of strategic imbalances, eroding security architectures, regionally conflicting trends and, outwardly at least, irreducible geopolitical competition. From a wider perspective, following an immediate post-Cold War perhaps idealistic confidence, we let ourselves carried by a misleading state of optimism. Today, after a prolonged ebb and flow in interest and focus on this region on the part of some of our Euro-Atlantic partners, we are once again faced with hard questions of what we should do together to avoid further negative influences, to reverse the trend of heightened instability and to forge some more enduring positive trends. - Teodor Meleșcanu, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Romania The security situation in Europe has, unfortunately, suffered a constant process of degradation, especially after 2014. This situation was generated by multiple causes: one is the political attitude and the military posture and profile of the Russian Federation, and its present consequences; another is the Ukrainian crisis; a third aspect would be the general attitude of Russia towards NATO in its entirety, and particularly towards some NATO member states from Russia's neighborhood; another important feature that we very much deal with nowadays, the illegal massive migration and the proliferation of the terrorists activities. - Gen. Nicolae Ciucă, General Chief Of Staff of the Defense The high turbulence is creating huge difficulties for the prospective studies. It means that changes are happening quite often during the process of elaboration of such studies. This was the case with 14 months in question, from Trump taking office and the Brexit to turbulence and sudden changes in Syria, North Korea, Iran, the Middle East. But if there is the possibility to ignore those distractions and focus on the methodology and objective findings, the results will be both relevant and spectacular. - Iulian Chifu, President, CPCEW Citește mai puțin...