Romania’s Electoral Crisis: A Blueprint for Defending Democracy
What Happened in Romania? The Romanian presidential election of 2024 faced significant controversy, culminating in its annulment due to...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
Romania’s Electoral Crisis: A Blueprint for Defending Democracy
A nation must think before it acts.
Romania
A Better Euro-Atlantic Approach to the Black Sea
In 2019, I warned: “The Russian Federation is pursuing an active and wide-ranging strategy to reassert and strengthen its...
The Balkans and Euro-Atlantic Energy Security
Access the Winter 2022 issue of Orbis here. Abstract Europe’s current energy crisis underscores its failure to deal adequately...
Three Conflict Scenarios for the Black Sea in 2020
What happens in the Black Sea does not stay in the Black Sea. The region’s status as a crossroad...
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....
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...
European Integration Moves Forward: The Three Seas Initiative
Since 1945, the United States has promoted European economic, political, and energy integration, and one recent way it has...
Moldova Between Scylla and Charybdis: Foreign Threats and Domestic Issues
Russia’s neighbors are on high alert: the unexpected annexation of Crimea, the stealth intervention in eastern Ukraine, and the...
The Black Sea as a Battleground for Information Warfare: A View from Bucharest
Most countries in Southeastern Europe consider the Black Sea a more reliable ally than one another. This attitude speaks...
Why the Black Sea?
When Americans think about the world, they divide it into discrete regions: Europe, spanning from Norway to Greece; the...