Interview with His Excellency Bogdan AURESCU, Minister of Foreign Affairs Your Excellency, Romania initiated diplomatic relations with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 1995. What was the reason for this and why hasn’t it done before 1989? Bogdan AURESCU: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia did not have … [Read more...]
Reţelele de socializare şi siguranţa naţională
Dan Ion OPREA Social networking is the mean of remote social expression and now is part of our lives. The article provides an overview of experiences and insights upon social networks starting from the very personal performance towards more complicated issues of critical infrastructure both … [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...]
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 … [Read more...]
Turcia-România: Geopolitică şi diplomaţie la Marea Neagră – 135 de ani de relaţii diplomatice – 19 martie 2014 –
Ambasada Republicii Turcia din Bucureşti, Asociaţia Oamenilor de Afaceri Turci din România - TIAD şi Asociaţia de Geopolitică Ion Conea - AGIC au organizat în data de 19 martie 2014 conferinţa „TURCIA-ROMÂNIA: Geopolitică şi diplomaţie la Marea Neagră - 135 de ani de relaţii diplomatice.” … [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...]
The EU Legislative Approach: Civil Society’s Expectations
Richard ADAMS Last week I had a few days holiday in Barcelona and as I was on the beach, enjoying the Mediterranean sun, there was a cloud on the horizon. I was conscious that today I would be presenting, from the viewpoint of civil society, a comment on the legislative approaches of the EU to … [Read more...]
Safety and Security Culture Beyond EU Borders
Olivia COMŞA A safer Europe in a safer world- towards a common safety and security culture Safety, security and non-proliferation are absolute priorities for the EU. The European Security Strategy has identified proliferation of WMD and terrorism as potentially the greatest threats to European and … [Read more...]
Regional Languages in the United Europe: to be or not to be?
Maia EGOROVA In the process of the European Union integration there rises a question of the future of the regional languages. Two parallel processes are going on in today’s European Union: on the one hand, the creation of common supranational space, directed at the homogenization of the states … [Read more...]
Energy Resources at the Eastern Mediterranean Basin: a Solution for the EU’s Debt Crisis or a Point of Friction?
Dimitrios DALAKLIS The so-called “classical geopolitical theories” are still valid as explanatory tools of the Mediterranean's eastern basin role in the wider context of international relations; they can also provide the necessary framework for examining the turbulent events which take place in the … [Read more...]