The Romania – United States Strategic Partnership. Its Impportance to the Security of the Wider Black Sea Region Cover Image

Parteneriatul strategic România – Statele Unite. Importanţa sa pentru securitatea Regiunii Extinse a Mării Negre
The Romania – United States Strategic Partnership. Its Impportance to the Security of the Wider Black Sea Region

Author(s): Ioan Codruţ Lucinescu
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: National Institute for Intelligence Studies
Keywords: strategic partnership; Black Sea region; security; cooperation; euro atlantic community

Summary/Abstract: The Black Sea basin is a strategic region bordering the Greater Middle East and a key transit route for Caspian oil. US interests in the Black Sea area – energy transit, security, counterterrorism, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD), and the traffic in drugs, weapons, and people – have taken on particular significance since 9/11. The US needs a comprehensive regional policy to protect American interests and security. On July 11th, 1997, on the occasion of the visit to Bucharest of the US President Bill Clinton, the Romania-US Strategic Partnership was launched. The Strategic Partnership represents an extended framework of cooperation aimed at strengthening the bilateral relations, supporting the reform process and the Euro-Atlantic integration of our country, and promoting Romania’s role, as a factor of stability and security in South-Eastern Europe and the Black Sea region

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 07
  • Page Range: 117-132
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Romanian