Mrd. Alexandru Vlad CRIŞAN * Abstract. My work will focus on analyzing Turkey's geo-economic strategies in Central Asia and the Caspian Sea. The first part of the article is concerning the Strategic Depth Doctrine, of the current Prime Minister of Turkey, expressing a very interesting vision of t … [Read more...]
MILITARY ASPECTS OF JURISDICTION AND OVERALL CONTROL ON A FROZEN CONFLICT AREA IN SOUTH CAUCASUS
Dr. Hari BUCUR-MARCU* Abstract. In 2012, I accepted to have a look upon a specific situation in the self-proclaimed Nagorno-Karabakh Republic. My task was to determine if the authorities of the Republic of Armenia were exercising or not any overall control upon the respective entity with military … [Read more...]
”AZERBAIJAN IS AN IMPORTANT, RELIABLE AND VALUABLE PARTNER FOR NATO IN THE REGION”
Interview with H.E. Mr. Farid ABDINBEYOV, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Azerbaijan in Romania Vasile SIMILEANU: Your Excellency, Azerbaijan has demonstrated, from the regaining of its independence, that it is an impactful geopolitical, geostrategic, … [Read more...]
”TURKEY STANDS AS AN IMPORTANT REGIONAL ACTOR THAT HAS THE ABILITY TO REACH VARIOUS CULTURES AND COMMUNITIES”
Interview with H.E. Mr. Osman Koray ERTAŞ, Ambassador of Turkish Republic in Romania Vasile SIMILEANU: Your Excellency, Turkey has demonstrated that it is a geopolitical, geostrategic and economic actor of regional impact. We all acknowledge the new Turkish society's edification in the … [Read more...]
ARMENIA – AZERBAIJAN PLATFORM FOR PEACE
ARMENIA - AZERBAIJAN PLATFORM FOR PEACE FOUNDING For the first time - the 8th of November 2016 - during the Armenia - Azerbaijan, Nagorno-Karabakh conflict Human Rights Defending organizations and members of civil society institutions from Armenia and Azerbaijan came together to organize an i … [Read more...]
GRAND STRATEGY AND TACTICS: U.S. POLICY TOWARD IRAN AND AZERBAIJAN
Joseph E. FALLON The reality of ”international relations” remains as Thucydides first described them in his History of The Peloponnesian War - ”right…is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.”1 To counter the threat posed … [Read more...]
NATO’S ROLE IN THE GEOPOLITICS OF THE SOUTH CAUCASUS
NATO'S ROLE IN THE GEOPOLITICS OF THE SOUTH CAUCASUS Benyamin POGHOSYAN, PhD Key words: NATO, Russia, US, EU, South Caucasus, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Geopolitics NATO'S RELATIONS WITH REGIONAL STATES NATO has been involved in the South Caucasus after the collapse of the Soviet Union. In … [Read more...]
CONFLICTUL ÎNGHEŢAT AL GRĂDINII NEGRE. IMPLICAŢIILE GEOPOLITICE, GEOSTRATEGICE ŞI GEO-ECONOMICE ALE SITUAŢIEI DIN NAGORNO-KARABAKH
Dr. Artur LAKATOS* Delia Gabriela COCORA** Abstract. This paper is dealing with the geopolitical implications of the frozen conflict of Nagorno-Karabakh. Presenting the basic terms and environment of the conflict, our analysis is dealing not only with the irreconcilable positions of the three … [Read more...]
Geopolitics and Energy Strategies of the South Caucasus – Azerbaijan in Spotlight – March 17, 2014
A conference entitled “Geopolitics and energy strategies of the South Caucasus - Azerbaijan in spotlight” has been held in Bucharest with the support of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation. The event was attended by Azerbaijani MPs, Romanian intellectuals, writers, political analysts, heads of Buc … [Read more...]
Greater Black Sea Area: Challenges of History and Modernity – Interview with Professor Alla YAZKOVA [1. Published in Dialog of Seas Review, No.1, 2014] Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor Alla YAZKOVA, Head of the Center for Black Sea – Mediterranean Studies of the Institute of Europe of the RAS in Moscow, tells about her institute’s scientific concerns related to the region of the Black and Mediterranean seas.
Geo-strategic aspects First of all, we need to determine what kind of region is that. Because both politics and scientific interpretation of political process bears two dimensions of it. The first one is the actual Black Sea region - the way it has been for centuries until the end of the Cold War … [Read more...]