Black Sea Strategic Volatility: Players and Patterns
The Black Sea has been called “the inhospitable sea” because of the “savage” tribes living on its shores....
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
Black Sea Strategic Volatility: Players and Patterns
A nation must think before it acts.
Categories for Black Sea Strategy Papers
Coal Mines, Land Mines and Nuclear Bombs: The Environmental Cost of the War in Eastern Ukraine
The war in eastern Ukraine has raged for five years, killed over 13,000 people, and displaced millions. It has...
On the Fault Line: Georgian Relations with China and the West
Relations between Georgia and the People’s Republic of China have expanded as China engages with the wider Black Sea...
Anatomy of a Fraud: The Moldovan Parliamentary Elections
The February 2019 Moldovan parliamentary elections might seem like a story of triumph against adversity and the victory of...
China’s Black Sea Ambitions
The People’s Republic of China is actively engaging Black Sea littoral states through various initiatives to open new markets...
Why Did Greece Turn Against Russia?
In the summer of 2018, Greece and Russian Federation went through one of the worst crises in their traditionally...
The Resiliency of Turkey-Russia Relations
The Republic of Turkey and the Russian Federation are at odds over multiple issues, not least the Syrian Civil...
August 2008 and Everything After: A Ten-Year Retrospective on the Russia-Georgia War
The 2008 war between Russia and Georgia shocked most of the world but was quickly overshadowed by other events....
The Black Sea Initiative: 2018 Research Agenda
The Black Sea region in recent years has been marked both by sharp shifts and by intractable dilemmas. The...
Russia Mulls New Role for its Post-Soviet Military Bloc
In October and November 2017, Central Asia and the Caucasus witnessed yet another set of Russian-led military exercises under...