Black Sea

Transnistria Writ Large for Donbas? Several Battlefields Mark Ukraine’s Challenges

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) For seven years now, war on the territory of Ukraine has continued. It is fought militarily, diplomatically, and economically between the Ukrainian armed forces and the…

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Strengthening Ukraine’s Black Sea Navy to be a Bulkhead Against Russia

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) The strengthening of Ukraine’s naval capabilities in the Black Sea is taking place in line with the growing U.S. understanding of the need to contain Russia…

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The Real and Projected Strategic Dimension of the Russian Black Sea Fleet

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Since its annexation of Crimea, Russia has not deviated from its coercive military behavior, displaying its military might again and again. The substance of its military…

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The US Role in the Black Sea Region

(Ukraine Analytica) The US remains the only true superpower with a global reach. In reaching out to the Black Sea, the US has a variety of tools and levers: diplomatic, political,…

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Azerbaijan’s foreign policy towards Russia since independence: compromise achieved

(Southeast European and Black Sea Studies) (Co-authored by Narmina Mamishova) Abstrasct: Discussions of post-Soviet countries’ policies towards Russia have been largely dominated by two mainstream neorealist approaches on states’ alignment choices – balancing…

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Black Sea Fleet projects power westwards

In April 2016, I published a short article in the Oxford Analytica Daily Brief discussing the role of Russia's Black Sea Fleet post-Crimea annexation. Here’s the text, as usual with…

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The Changing Face of Black Sea Security

(Guest post by Mitat Çelikpala and Dimitrios Triantaphyllou) As 2016 began, global power dynamics and the international security system swung even further toward the unbalanced side of the pendulum. Conditions in…

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The Implications of the Crimean Annexation for Black Sea Security

The Ukraine crisis altered the security landscape of the Black Sea region. This area was a relatively quiet “battlefront” during the Cold War and a rather stable region in the…

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Gorenburg: From Sevastopol, the Russian navy can control all approaches

(Moscow Times) From a military point of view, Russia's ground operation to annex Crimea in 2014 was an exceptionally clean affair, and gave ample opportunity to demonstrate the fruits of Moscow's military modernization efforts. But for Russia's famed Black Sea Fleet,…

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«Россия отдыхает тяжело»: военные учения на Черном море

После русско-грузинской войны 2008 года Россия регулярно проводит учения на Черном море. Около 30 российских кораблей, 7000 военнослужащих, более 20 боевых самолетов и вертолетов приняли участие во «внезапной» проверке готовности…

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