The Shifting Geopolitics of the Black Sea Region: Actors, Drivers and Challenges
The Black Sea Region stands out as a region where realpolitik once more has come to the fore. This project maps drivers that currently affect the shifting geopolitics of the Black Sea region.Deltakere Professor Pål Kolstø, University of Oslo
The Black Sea Region stands out as a region where realpolitik once more has come to the fore. This project maps drivers that currently affect the shifting geopolitics of the Black Sea region: Turkey and Ukraine as competing transit routes for Eurasian gas export, Ukraine's attempts to sustain a foreign policy for European integration versus the increasing Russian 'pull', and the partial melting of the 'frozen conflicts' and renewed great power engagement in South Caucasus. Each of these factors will − together or seperately − determine how the regional dynamics of the Black Sea unfolds.
Presentations and lectures
Lecture reference group (2011): A Balancing Act: Ukraine and the Energy Dilemma
Presentation MOD (2011): The Shifting Geopolitics of the Black Sea Region
Presentation Statoil (2011): Energy policies in the Black Sea region
Finansiering
Forsvarsdepartementet/The Ministry of Defence
Publikasjoner
- Flikke, Geir , Helge Blakkisrud, Einar Wigen, Pål Kolstø (2011). The Shifting Geopolitics of the Black Sea Region . Oslo, Nupi. 73 sider. The Black Sea Region stands out as a region where realpolitik has come to the fore. This report maps the drivers that currently affect the shifting geopolitics of the Black Sea region.
- Blakkisrud, Helge , Pål Kolstø
(2012). Dynamics of de facto statehood,
in Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, 12:2.
.Routledge.s. 281-298.The South Caucasian de facto states – Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Nagorno-Karabakh – have existed for almost 20 years now. This article offers a comparative analysis of how these statelets have attempted to consolidate statehood though processes of state- and nation-building. [url]
