Security and military balance in the Black Sea region

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ID21156442
AuthorsÖzgür Özdamar (0000-0001-6865-1895, a Department of International Relations , Bilkent University , Ankara , Turkey, corresponding author)
Year2010
Volume10
Issue3
Pages341-359
Publication date2010-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1468-3857 • E-ISSN: 1743-9639
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14683857.2010.503643
OpenAlexW2095638819
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited4

This paper analyses the current security challenges and military balance in the Black Sea region. The region, which has been going through vast political and economic transformations since the end of the Cold War, has become a platform for great power rivalry in the last few years. NATO expansion and Russian resistance to it, combined with the existing protracted conflicts, resulted in the first major regional war in a decade. The Russia–Georgia war of 2008 proved that regional actors still perceive the use of force as an acceptable tool of foreign policy. The changing military balance and abrupt increases in military expenditure from some actors suggest that the likelihood of other interstate conflicts in the region is high. Providing security and stability in the Black Sea seems more difficult than the pre‐August 2008 war period

Black sea · Cold war · Development economics · Economics · Economy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Rivalry · European and Russian Geopolitical Military Strategies · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law · Post-Soviet Geopolitical Dynamics

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