Social Values and Identities in the Black Sea Region

The book focuses on the nexus between geopolitical challenges and cultural framework in the Black Sea region. Employing an interdisciplinary approach and using survey research evidence, the volume demonstrates that the Black Sea region is a cultural area with shared domains and trends.

Social Values and Identities in the Black Sea Region focuses on the nexus between geopolitical challenges and cultural framework in the Black Sea region. The volume shows how the common inheritance interferes with different religious and political institutional backgrounds, fostering the formation of a particular cultural area. The interdisciplinary approach combines contributions from the domains of sociology, political science, international relations, and security studies and employs qualitative and quantitative analyses.

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Malina Voicu, Marian Zulean, Kseniya Kizilova

Part I. History, Geopolitics, and Security in the Black Sea Area

Chapter 1. Black Sea Region in the Social Science and Humanities Literature

Marian Zulean

Chapter 2. Regionalism, Regionalization, and the Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation

Paul Dragos Aligica, Marcela Tusca

Chapter 3. Transitional Justice around the Black Sea: Unfulfilled Promises, Divergent Goals, and Missed Opportunities

Lavinia Stan

Part II. Political Culture and Identities in the Black Sea Area

Chapter 4. Frontiers of National Identities in the Black Sea Countries: People’s Views on their Ethnic, Civic, Local, and Regional Ties

Horațiu M. Rusu

Chapter 5. Political Culture: Trust and Regime Support in the Black Sea Region

Kseniya Kizilova, Christian Haerpfer

Chapter 6. Demand for Populism in the Black Sea Region: A Cultural Values Approach to Populist Politics

Yilmaz Esmer, Duygu Karadon

Part III. Cultural Values and Norms in the Black Sea Area

Chapter 7. Religious Change in the Black Sea Area: The History of the Path-Dependent Secularization

Malina Voicu, Simona Maria Stanescu

Chapter 8. Morality and Moral Change in the Black Sea Region: A Longitudinal Perspective with a Special Focus on Romania, Russia, and Turkey

Hermann Dülmer

Chapter 9. Gender Norms and Values in the Black Sea Region

Vera Lomazzi

Chapter 10. (In)Tolerance in the Black Sea Region

Anna Almakaeva, Igor Chervinsky, Natalia Mikhailova

Part IV. Values and Identities in the Black Sea Region: National Case-Studies

Chapter 11. Identity and Geopolitical Vector of Georgia

Ekaterine Pirtskhalava, Elene Kvanchilashvili

Chapter 12. National Securitization against Cultural Diversity in Turkey: Relevant Data in the World Values Survey and What Lies Beyond

Dragoş C. Mateescu

Chapter 13. Support for Democracy in Ukraine

Nataliya Reshetova, Malina Voicu

Conclusion

Kseniya Kizilova, Malina Voicu

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