Beschreibung:
This book discusses the strategic naval moves of Russia in the Black Sea, Mediterranean regions and adjacent territories such as Europe and the Middle East. The authors argue that these moves indicate Russia’s ambitions for geopolitical power have revived and what this could mean in the future.
In the last decade Russia has searched for new alternative policies to compensate for its political deficiencies and to balance its rivals in one of the key areas of the approaching geopolitical rivalry, the sea. The Russian assertiveness seen in the Black Sea-Mediterranean basin has recently been a real concern for the international community. In the six chapters of this book, contributors explain Moscow’s newly perceived assertive foreign and security behavior in the Black Sea and Mediterranean basin from their own perspectives, and reach a conclusion about the limits and validity of this new Russian ascendance in the region.
Chapter 1 New Russian Mahanism Failed: Futile Geopolitical Dreams in the Black Sea and Mediterranean
Nurşin Ateşoğlu Güney and Vişne Korkmaz
Chapter 2 What Lies behind the Ukrainian Crisis and Moscow’s Gains and Losses?
Ellen Wasylina
Chapter 3 Russia's Energy Security Policy Challenges – Ways of Finding Compromise Between Local Tasks and Global Market
Valeriy A. Kryukov and Janetta J. Medzhidova
Chapter 4 Russia’s Geo-Economic Realism of Energy and International Relations
Mert Bilgin
Chapter 5 Russia-Iran Relations
Gawdat Bahgat
Chapter 6 Russia and Turkey: Interdependence in the Time of Hybrid Mahanism
Vişne Korkmaz, Nurşin Ateşoğlu Güney, and Eda Güney