ROMANIA – A COUNTRY IN THE MIDDLE OF A “PERFECT STORM” -
ROMANIA – A COUNTRY IN THE MIDDLE OF A “PERFECT STORM” -
Author(s): Petrica-Lucian FOCA, Vasile CerbuContributor(s): Dana Macoveiciuc (Translator)
Subject(s): Government/Political systems, Security and defense, Political behavior, Geopolitics
Published by: Centrul tehnic-editorial al armatei
Keywords: air capabilities; regional powers; Wider Black Sea Region;
Summary/Abstract: The Wider Black Sea Region is geostrategically and geoeconomically important due to some key positions such as the Bosporus and the Dardanelles Straits, the Peninsula of Crimea, the Danube and the Sulina Branch, the Serpents’ Island, and the Georgian littoral. The authors consider that this part of Europe is defined using criteria that are rather political and economic than geographic, including the littoral states: Greece, FRY Macedonia, Albania, Serbia, Montenegro, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, Moldova, Armenia, Azerbaijan. The WBSR was one of the themes on the agenda of the 2016 Warsaw NATO Summit. During the summit were adopted some measures of maximum importance for our country that is, as the authors put it, in the middle of a “perfect storm”: Turkey in the South, the Caucasus in the East, Crimea and Donbas in the North, and migration in the West.
Journal: Romanian Military Thinking
- Issue Year: 2016
- Issue No: 4
- Page Range: 16-29
- Page Count: 14
- Language: English