Mircea Codruţ MARIN This essay discusses several institutional and political cultures, perceptions and intellectual myths that shaped Romanian decision makers choices regarding Eurasian strategies during the last decade. We started with the example of Nabucco pipeline, Romania’s endeavour to … [Read more...]
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Geo-Strategic Interests of Russia in the Black Sea Region
The author analyses the role and place of the Black Sea region in modern state doctrines and strategies of the Russian Federation. It is noted that in recent years the major state documents - Military Doctrine of the Russian Federation, Foreign Policy Concept of the Russian Federation - … [Read more...]
Arhitectura Mării Negre în gramatica proiecţiei geostrategice
The Black Sea has a distinct culture in global geopolitics and present a great interest for the most influential Western geopolitical actors, geopolitical and geoeconomical projects and visions of regional organization in the third millennium. In the study, we analyzed the etymology of Black Sea … [Read more...]
Complexul fluvio-maritim Marea Nordului – Rin – Main – Dunăre – Marea Neagră – valenţe de securitate în contextul geopolitic din zona Mării Negre –
The North Sea - Rhine - Main - Danube - Black Sea waterway system links 16 states and facilitates transport via 9 large rivers which make up the 7th European waterway corridor. This corridor simplifies transport between Western Europe and the South Danube states and between the North Sea and the … [Read more...]
Coordonate geostrategice ale Dunării şi Mării Negre
The Danube and the Black Sea are extremely important elements of Europe, representing a genuine system of transport and communication to resource -rich areas, but also the shortest waterway for the majority of the European countries to the Mediterranean Sea, the Orient and the Southern … [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...]