CURRENT GEOPOLITICAL CONTEXT, POTENTIAL IMPLICATIONS ON ROMANIA'S REGIONAL INTERESTS
CURRENT GEOPOLITICAL CONTEXT, POTENTIAL IMPLICATIONS ON ROMANIA'S REGIONAL INTERESTS

Author(s): Fănel Rădulescu
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Carol I National Defence University Publishing House
Keywords: tensions; confluence; regional context; regional interests; regional pole of stability
Summary/Abstract: The actual security environment, characterized by significant military and geopolitical tensions, affects, at least at a regional level, politico-military and economic interests of Romania. Of the general politico-military context, geographic location, the Black Sea region which had become an important confluence area among interests of the Russian Federation, regional countries and other regional and Euro-Atlantic bodies, makes Romania the eastern border of the EU and NATO. Moreover, the Russia’s unpredictable actions, Turkey's potential instability, with complex implications in the region, Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East security challenges, will lead countries of the region, as well as EU, NATO and of course US, to reconsider their positions and future action approaches. As a result, the regional context requires Romania to assume its role as pivotal country and the responsibility to protect its interests, primarily by itself, as forms of affirmation and strengthening its role as a regional pole of stability, not only in relation with the EU and NATO, but also in strategic partnership with the US.

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