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FPRI’s Black Sea Initiative analyzes the region from the perspective of security, domestic politics, economics, and energy. Home to the protracted conflicts in Moldova, Georgia, and now Ukraine, surrounded by major geopolitical actors such as Russia and Turkey, EU member states – Bulgaria and Romania, and crucial energy transit routes, the challenges of the Black Sea region influence all of Europe and Eurasia. We closely monitor these issues through our series of publications including the Black Sea Strategy Papers, BMB Ukraine, and other FPRI publications. Over the past five years we have built a sizable network of scholars and experts both in the United States and in the Black Sea region itself. We support their work by sponsoring field research, publishing their findings, and organizing public and private lectures, briefings, and conferences.
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- Strategic Connectivity in the Black Sea: A Focus on Georgia - Black Sea Strategy Papers, Reports - Batu Kutelia, Vasil Sikharulidze -
- Cooperation, Competition, and Compartmentalization: Russian-Turkish Relations and Their Implications for the West - Black Sea Strategy Papers, Reports - Robert E. Hamilton, Anna Mikulska -
- Russia’s Permanent War against Georgia - Analysis, Black Sea Strategy Papers - Giorgi Shaishmelashvili -
- The Institutional Structure of “New Turkey” - Black Sea Strategy Papers - Selim Koru -
- The Realist Victory in Nagorno-Karabakh - Analysis, Black Sea Strategy Papers - Maximilian Hess -
- Georgia’s Parliamentary Elections and the Problem of Oligarchic Rule - Analysis, Black Sea Strategy Papers - Miro Popkhadze, Batu Kutelia -
- Georgia’s Doomed Deep-Sea Port Ambitions: Geopolitics of the Cancelled Anaklia Project - Black Sea Strategy Papers - Maximilian Hess, Maia Otarashvili -
- Three Conflict Scenarios for the Black Sea in 2020 - Analysis, Black Sea Strategy Papers - Iulia-Sabina Joja -
- Russia’s Southern Strategy - Black Sea Strategy Papers, Central Asia Papers - Nikolas K. Gvosdev -
- Five Years of War in the Donbas - Black Sea Strategy Papers - Robert E. Hamilton -
- Black Sea Strategic Volatility: Players and Patterns - Black Sea Strategy Papers - Iulia-Sabina Joja -
- Coal Mines, Land Mines and Nuclear Bombs: The Environmental Cost of the War in Eastern Ukraine - Black Sea Strategy Papers, E-Notes - Robert E. Hamilton -
- On the Fault Line: Georgian Relations with China and the West - Black Sea Strategy Papers - Eurasia Program -
- Anatomy of a Fraud: The Moldovan Parliamentary Elections - Black Sea Strategy Papers, E-Notes - Helen Simpson -
- China’s Black Sea Ambitions - Black Sea Strategy Papers - Yevgen Sautin -
- Why Did Greece Turn Against Russia? - Black Sea Strategy Papers - Dimitar Bechev -
- The Resiliency of Turkey-Russia Relations - Black Sea Strategy Papers - Selim Koru -
- August 2008 and Everything After: A Ten-Year Retrospective on the Russia-Georgia War - Black Sea Strategy Papers - Robert E. Hamilton -
- The Black Sea Initiative: 2018 Research Agenda - Black Sea Strategy Papers - Chris Miller -
- Russia Mulls New Role for its Post-Soviet Military Bloc - Black Sea Strategy Papers - Eduard Abrahamyan -
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