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Security Structure of the Black Sea Region in the Context of New Challenges
Security Structure of the Black Sea Region in the Context of New Challenges

Author(s): Selcuk Colakoglu
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai

Summary/Abstract: This paper aims at investigating security environment of the Black Sea region. We firstly review regional organizations and their security agendas. While the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC) appears to be as the most organized and largest regional organization, it will be given to the BSEC much more importance. Then, it will be investigated the non-regional organization, namely NATO and the EU, both of which pursue their security agenda on the Black Sea region. NATO is mainly a security organization, which has an enlargement policy toward in the Black Sea region. The EU is dominantly economic and political organization which has also enlargement toward the Black Sea region. Finally, we analyze the security system of Black Sea region consisting of the BSEC, NATO and the EU.

  • Issue Year: 51/2006
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 75-90
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: English