Abstract: In the present context it is spoken increasingly about the complicated situation in the Middle East. In this regard, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia plays a significant role in the geopolitical and geostrategical plan. From this point of view, we present the challenges that exist in the … [Read more...]
Geopolitica noului Orient Mijlociu după Primăvara Arabă
Marian Vasile NAZARE Riots within the Arab world have started in Tunisia on the 17th of December 2010, spreading fast to other Muslim countries: Morocco, Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Mauritania, Sudan, Djibouti, Jordan, Oman, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Iraq, Somalia, Bahrain and … [Read more...]
The Myths of Novorossiya: Kremlin reinvents Ukrainian History to Justify Invasion
Serhiy DZHERDZH The disparity between Russian claims and historical reality is one of the key reasons why the Kremlin’s attempts to spark popular uprisings in eastern Ukraine have proved so relatively fruitless. While Putin’s spring 2014 Novorossiya speech envisaged territorial gains encompassing … [Read more...]
Un nou dinozaur strategic? Efecte geopolitice ale posibilei transformări a Organizaţiei de Cooperare de la Shanghai într-o organizaţie de securitate
Gheorghe VĂDUVA Conçue comme une organisation de coopération notamment économique et sécuritaire, Organisation de Coopération de Shanghai tende devenir un noyau asiatique de sécurité et défense pour le monde asiatique, géré par la Chine et la Russie, si non à l’opposition avec l’OTAN, alors d’une … [Read more...]
Semnificaţia summitului NATO din 4-5.09.2014 asupra securităţii naţionale a României, aflată în zona de est a Uniunii Europene și a Organizaţiei Atlanticului de Nord
Anghel ANDREESCU Abstract. Russia will finalize the annexation of Crimea at all costs; idem Transnistria will shape the development of Ukraine's foreign policy under influenced by ethnic Russians in eastern and south-eastern Ukraine; EU economic sanctions and other will be gradual and moderate. … [Read more...]
Politica de îngrădire a Rusiei şi conflictul ucrainean – scurtă analiză –
Vladimir Putin, a proponent of Realpolitik, had triggered in 2014 a series of events in the Black Sea Crimean Area by attaching and supporting the insurgents in eastern Ukraine. Although surprising, the Russian actions are justified both for historical reasons and especially through the concept that … [Read more...]
Ukraine – Let’s Think European
One of the most distressing aspects of the way the situation in Ukraine is dealt with is the regularity with which the fundamental nature of the aggressor’s political regime is ignored. Today’s Russia is certainly not Stalin’s - or even Brezhnev’s - USSR, nor is it Nazi Germany, Italy in Fascist … [Read more...]
Geopolitics, Revisionism and the Black Sea
Latent tensions have loomed before civil strife actually irrupted in Ukraine amid deep-rooted political uncertainties. That claims upon the Crimean peninsula would be eventually raised by Putin’s Russia, concentrating troops at the borders and effecting what appeared to be a military invasion, … [Read more...]
The Myths and Realities of Vladimir Putin’s Eurasian Economic Union
Russia is proving itself as an increasingly assertive political and economic regional power in EU’s Eastern periphery and neighborhood. Exerting influence in its "near abroad" is a crucial element in Russia’s geopolitical strategy, given the region’s importance as an energy producer, and its … [Read more...]
„Rimland”-ul ponto-baltic sau Containment-ul Federaţiei Ruse? Rolul României ca stat riveran Mării Negre
NATO enlargement, by the accession of Romania and Bulgaria, and the United States support of pro-Western elites in Ukraine and Georgia, make the Russian Federation to consider itself "besieged", which determines a "pull-out" conduct of this newly created "Rimland" component from the euroatlantic … [Read more...]