ROMANIAN SECURITY SPACE AND THE PONTO-BALTIC ISTHMUS
ROMANIAN SECURITY SPACE AND THE PONTO-BALTIC ISTHMUS

Summary/Abstract: The Ponto-Baltic Isthmus area, although is a sensible one, being in a strong resurgence because of the opening region of interest due to Black Sea, is less studied. It has a special importance in geopolitics and Romanian anthropogeography, as Mehedinţi and Gheorghe Brătianu underlined and becomes more discussed inside of Mackinder’s and Spykman’s theories. The security of the whole area depends on the Black Sea, the Danube and the Straits security. The policy of a state should be interested on the Straits problem, the natural extension of the Danube Delta as well as naval and air bases that dominate Pontic area. We shouldn’t be regardless who mastered them, said the great historian Gheorghe Brătianu. Romanian sociologists emphasized the strategic importance of the Black Sea; its role between three important zones: Europe, Asia and the Middle Orient. The Black Sea represents the key- element for the security of Romania and Europe. Black Sea issue is important because it depends on the security of the energy routes and the security of an entire South East European area.

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