The Geopolitics of Region Building in the Black Sea

The Geopolitics of Region Building in the Black Sea

Author: Yannis Tsantoulis

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2023-05

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780367644697

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Offering theoretical insights on region building, this book explores the attempts to formulate a political and institutional vision for the Black Sea region in the post-9/11 era and in the context of the enlargements of the EU and NATO.


The Geopolitics of Region Building in the Black Sea

The Geopolitics of Region Building in the Black Sea

Author: Yannis Tsantoulis

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-12-17

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 0429559445

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Offering theoretical insights on region building, this book explores the attempts to formulate a political and institutional vision for the Black Sea region in the post-9/11 era and in the context of the enlargements of the EU and NATO. It investigates in depth these attempts, viewed as a failure by the key actors involved, in order to understand how regions emerge in international politics as well as how and why they may fail to come into being. To this end, the book explores a range of factors that impacted region building in the Black Sea, considering the role of region builders involved, their practices and the context of their actions, and the spatial representations and security discourses that were integral to the region building process. Hence, attention is paid to how these factors both enabled and constrained the discursive construction of the Black Sea region, thus identifying the elements that distinguish the Black Sea from other successful cases of region building. Based on critical approaches towards international relations and political geography, this book both expands and deepens the scope and understanding of regions and will thus appeal to academics and students in the fields of International Relations, Security Studies, Political Geography, and Regional Integration.


Baltic-Black Sea Regionalisms

Baltic-Black Sea Regionalisms

Author: Olga Bogdanova

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 9783030248796

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This edited volume focuses on various forms of regionalism and neighborhoods in the Baltic-Black Sea area. In the light of current reshaping of borderlands and new geopolitical and military confrontations in Europe's eastern margins, such as the annexation of Crimea and the war in Donbas, this book analyzes different types and modalities of regional integration and region-making from a comparative perspective. It conceptualizes cooperative and conflictual encounters as a series of networks and patchworks that differently link and relate major actors to each other and thus shape these interconnections as domains of inclusion and exclusion, bordering and debordering, securitization and desecuritization. This peculiar combination of geopolitics, ethnopolitics and biopolitics makes the Baltic-Black Sea trans-national region a source of inspiring policy practices, and, in the light of new security risks, a matter of increased concern all over Europe. The contributors from various disciplines cover topics such as cultural and civilizational spaces of belonging and identity politics, the rise of right-wing populism, region building under the condition of multiple security pressures, and the influence and regional strategies of different external powers, including the EU, Russia, and Turkey, on cross- and trans-regional relations in the area.


The Intermarium as the Polish-Ukrainian Linchpin of Baltic-Black Sea Cooperation

The Intermarium as the Polish-Ukrainian Linchpin of Baltic-Black Sea Cooperation

Author: Ostap Kushnir

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2019-03-01

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 152753054X

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The term “Intermarium” has a long historical tradition and was commonly used to define the area between the Baltic and Black Seas. With its regular re-appearances in contemporary academic and political discourses, this book explores and assesses a variety of its connotations. In order to do this, it applies a multi-dimensional approach to the Intermarium. Six researchers specializing in Central and Eastern European history, geopolitics, security, economics, and cultural studies are brought together here to share their expert knowledge. As a result, the book discusses various, unique aspects of the Intermarium. At the very end, a conclusion is drawn as to whether the cognominal framework possesses any feasible potential for emergence and development in the contemporary international architecture.


Borders in the Baltic Sea Region

Borders in the Baltic Sea Region

Author: Andrey Makarychev

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-11-09

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1352000148

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This book focuses on the recent political trajectories within the Baltic Sea Region from one of the success stories of regionalism in Europe to a potential area of military confrontation between Russia and NATO. The authors closely examine the following issues: new security challenges for the region stemming from Russia’s staunch anti-EU and anti-NATO polices, institutions and practices of multi-level governance in the region, and different cultural strategies that regional actors employ. The common threads of this innovative volume are issues of changing borders and boundaries in the region, and logics of inclusion and exclusion that shape its political contours. From diverse disciplinary and methodological positions the authors explain policies of specific Baltic Sea states, as well as structural matters that make them a region.


Popular Geopolitics

Popular Geopolitics

Author: Robert A. Saunders

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-04-27

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 1351205013

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This book brings together scholars from across a variety of academic disciplines to assess the current state of the subfield of popular geopolitics. It provides an archaeology of the field, maps the flows of various frameworks of analysis into (and out of) popular geopolitics, and charts a course forward for the discipline. It explores the real-world implications of popular culture, with a particular focus on the evolving interdisciplinary nature of popular geopolitics alongside interrelated disciplines including media, cultural, and gender studies.


The Security of the Caspian Sea Region

The Security of the Caspian Sea Region

Author: Gennadiĭ Illarionovich Chufrin

Publisher: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 9780199250202

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Published in association with the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.


The Wider Black Sea Region in the 21st Century

The Wider Black Sea Region in the 21st Century

Author: Daniel Sheldon Hamilton

Publisher: Center for Transatlantic Relations Sais

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 522

ISBN-13:

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"In this volume leading scholars from Europe, Russia, the U.S. and the Black Sea itself address the dynamics of the wider Black Sea region, discuss major issues of conflict, and identify potential for cooperation. Their contributions result from a collaborative research project organized by the Center for Transatlantic Relations at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, the Austrian Institute for International Affairs in Vienna, and the Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation."--BOOK JACKET.


The Future of the Law of the Sea

The Future of the Law of the Sea

Author: Gemma Andreone

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-03-30

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 3319512749

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This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license. It explores the diverse phenomena which are challenging the international law of the sea today, using the unique perspective of a simultaneous analysis of the national, individual and common interests at stake. This perspective, which all the contributors bear in mind when treating their own topic, also constitutes a useful element in the effort to bring today’s legal complexity and fragmentation to a homogenous vision of the sustainable use of the marine environment and of its resources, and also of the international and national response to maritime crimes.The volume analyzes the relevant legal frameworks and recent developments, focusing on the competing interests which have influenced State jurisdiction and other regulatory processes. An analysis of the competing interests and their developments allows us to identify actors and relevant legal and institutional contexts, retracing how and when these elements have changed over time.