NATO AND EU’S POLICIES TOWARDS BLACK SEA REGION

The Blacksea Region has been in the spotlight of dominance struggle of the states throughout the history because of its geo-politic and geo-strategic importance. But it almost entered to sleeping period during the Cold War era. The Region, which became apparent after the collapse of Soviet Russia fo...

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Autor principal: Selim KURT
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Publicado: Fırat University 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/9b2deca7ed9040b6855aa4b993bbe96f
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Sumario:The Blacksea Region has been in the spotlight of dominance struggle of the states throughout the history because of its geo-politic and geo-strategic importance. But it almost entered to sleeping period during the Cold War era. The Region, which became apparent after the collapse of Soviet Russia following to end of Cold War, starts to attract West’s attention, because of its substantial energy sources and being in energy transport routes. Previously the region couldn’t take attention of the West, due to being far from border of it and surrounded by the member of Warsaw Treaty Organization, except Turkey. But the European structures such as EU and NATO have become neighbours of the Blacksea area with their latest expansion waves. The region entered into West’s agenda because of non-traditional asymmetric security threats as terror, human and drug trafficking and etc. beside its rich fossil energy resources. In this context