THE BLACK SEA - A POTENTIAL MAJOR ZONE FOR GLOBAL SECURITY
Journal Title: Impact Strategic - Year 2008, Vol 28, Issue 3
Abstract
Two of the Caucasus frozen conflicts have disappeared. They were local conflicts that have changed into a situation risking generating direct global conflicts among great powers. Thus, the Black Sea could become the most explosive geopolitical zone of the world. What we were afraid of is going to be reality. Instead of transforming into a region of prosperity through economic cooperation as BSEC has proposed, it will be the place from where Russia, with its entire tools in hand, goes again in the world’s power games. Russia did it in a moment when the West is concerned of its own problems and when the world generates new realities. This is an effect of globalization, too. Unfortunately, Georgia matters only as a point of reference. Irrespective of how the events will develop, the world will change; the security environment will witness new turbulences that could be challenges for all security architecture. On the medium term, the main scene for them will be the same Black Sea zone and what is more dangerous, I am afraid, neither NATO and EU nor Russia are really prepared to play.
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Nicolae DOLGHIN
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