Geopolitical Turmoil In The Balkans And Eastern Mediterranean

Author : Hall Gardner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3031343204

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Geopolitical Turmoil in the Balkans and Eastern Mediterranean by Hall Gardner Pdf

This edited book will examine the Balkans and Eastern Mediterranean from multidimensional geo-strategic, political-economic, socio-cultural/religious and demographic perspectives. It analyzes the conflicting geopolitical interests of the major and regional powers, as well as those of NATO and the European Union, with a focus on energy, democracy and corruption, shifts in population, as well as religious political influence. The authors argue that the US, NATO and EU leaderships can no longer afford to ignore the two regions - if the increasing potential for conflict is to be averted. The Balkans and Eastern Mediterranean are returning to a major position in the contemporary geostrategic nexus since NATO began a new expansion into the Balkans by bringing Montenegro in 2017 and North Macedonia in March 2020 into membership, after its previous expansion to Slovenia in NATO's "Big Bang" in 2004 and to both Albania and Croatia in 2009. Hall Gardner is Full Professor of History and Politics at The American University of Paris, France. .

Author : Hall Gardner
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783031343186

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Geopolitical Turmoil in the Balkans and Eastern Mediterranean by Hall Gardner Pdf

This edited book will examine the Balkans and Eastern Mediterranean from multidimensional geo-strategic, political-economic, socio-cultural/religious and demographic perspectives. It analyzes the conflicting geopolitical interests of the major and regional powers, as well as those of NATO and the European Union, with a focus on energy, democracy and corruption, shifts in population, as well as religious political influence. The authors argue that the US, NATO and EU leaderships can no longer afford to ignore the two regions — if the increasing potential for conflict is to be averted. The Balkans and Eastern Mediterranean are returning to a major position in the contemporary geostrategic nexus since NATO began a new expansion into the Balkans by bringing Montenegro in 2017 and North Macedonia in March 2020 into membership, after its previous expansion to Slovenia in NATO’s “Big Bang” in 2004 and to both Albania and Croatia in 2009.

Author : Ian O. Lesser,F. Stephen Larrabee,Michele Zanini,Katia Vlachos
Publisher : Rand Corporation
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2001-11-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780833032331

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Greece's New Geopolitics by Ian O. Lesser,F. Stephen Larrabee,Michele Zanini,Katia Vlachos Pdf

Greece has been profoundly affected by recent changes in the internationalenvironment, on its borders, and within the country itself. Manylong-standing assumptions about Greek interests and Greece_s role havefallen away and have been supplanted by new approaches. The country hasbecome progressively more modern and more European, and its internationalpolicy has become more sophisticated. At the same time, the geopoliticalscene has evolved in ways that present new challenges and new opportunitiesfor Athens in its relations with Europe, the United States, and neighboringcountries. Many of these challenges cross traditional regional boundariesand underscore Greece_s potential to play a transregional role, lookingoutward from Europe to the Mediterranean, Eurasia, and the Middle East. Thisreport explores the new geopolitical environment Greece faces, payingspecial attention to the implications for southeastern Europe andtransatlantic relations; explores options for Greek strategy; and offerssome new directions for policy in Greece and on both sides of the Atlantic.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Economic assistance, American
ISBN : IND:30000088126044

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Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations for 1996 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Pdf

Author : Chrēstos G. Kollias,Gülay Günlük-Şenesen
Publisher : Nova Publishers
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1590337530

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Greece and Turkey in the 21st Century by Chrēstos G. Kollias,Gülay Günlük-Şenesen Pdf

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Author : Ana Foteva
Publisher : Austrian Culture
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Balkan Peninsula
ISBN : 1433115654

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Do the Balkans Begin in Vienna? by Ana Foteva Pdf

Do the Balkans Begin in Vienna? takes up one of the most fraught areas of Europe, the Balkans. Variously part of the Austro-Hungarian, Ottoman, and Byzantine empires, this region has always been considered Europe's border between the Orient and the Occident. Aiming to clarify the politics of drawing cultural borders in this region, the book examines the relations between the Habsburg Monarchy and the Balkans as an intermediate space between West and East. It demonstrates that the dichotomy Orient versus Occident is insufficient to explain the complexity of the region. Therefore, cultural multi-belonging, historical disruption, and recurrence of identities and conflicts are proposed to be «the essence» of the Balkans. Do the Balkans Begin in Vienna? depicts the fictional imagination of the Balkans as a «utopian dystopia». This oxymoron encompasses the utopian projections of the Austrian/ Habsburg writers onto the Balkans as a place of intact nature and archaic communities; the dystopian presentations of the Balkans by local authors as an abnormal no-place (ou-topia) onto which the historical tensions of empires have been projected; and, finally, the depictions of the Balkans in the Western media as an eternal or recurring dystopia. There is at present no other study that distinguishes these particular geographical reference points. Thus, this book contributes to the research on Europe's historical memory and to scholarship on postcolonial and/or post-imperial identities in European states. The volume is recommended for courses on Austrian, German, Balkan, and European studies, as well as comparative literature, theater, media, Slavic literatures, history, and political science.

Author : Mahir Ibrahimov,Gustav A. Otto,Lee G. Gentile (Jr.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Eurasia
ISBN : 1940804310

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Cultural Perspectives, Geopolitics, & Energy Security of Eurasia by Mahir Ibrahimov,Gustav A. Otto,Lee G. Gentile (Jr.) Pdf

Author : liMes (Rivista italiana di geopolitica)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015046901057

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Italy and the Balkans by liMes (Rivista italiana di geopolitica) Pdf

"What is the role Italy is playing in the Balkans?" This volume, published in collaboration with liMes, Rivista Italiana di Geopolitica, revolves around this question. The goal: to give English-speaking readers an authoritative and original picture of the Italian geopolitical scene, both international and domestic. This goal will be pursued without departing from the distinct style of the Italian version of liMes: an open mind toward any viewpoint and a focus on specific issues rather than on theories purporting to explain the world with a single formula. In this way CSIS and liMes hope to contribute to the creation of a transatlantic geopolitical forum and to a better understanding, both in the United States and in the international community, of Italy's role in the post-Cold War world.

Author : Dimitar Bechev
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780300219135

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Rival Power by Dimitar Bechev Pdf

A nuanced and comprehensive study of the political dynamics between Russia and key countries in Southeast Europe Is Russia threatening to disrupt more than two decades' of E.U. and U.S. efforts to promote stability in post-communist Southeast Europe? Politicians and commentators in the West say, "yes." With rising global anxiety over Russia's political policies and objectives, Dimitar Bechev provides the only in-depth look at this volatile region. Deftly unpacking the nature and extent of Russian influence in the Balkans, Greece, and Turkey, Bechev argues that both sides are driven by pragmatism and opportunism rather than historical loyalties. Russia is seeking to assert its role in Europe's security architecture, establish alternative routes for its gas exports--including the contested Southern Gas Corridor--and score points against the West. Yet, leaders in these areas are allowing Russia to reinsert itself to serve their own goals. This urgently needed guide analyzes the responses of regional NATO members, particularly regarding the annexation of Crimea and the Putin-Erdogan rift over Syria.

Author : Olivia Toderean,Sergiu Celac,George Scutaru
Publisher : Curtea Veche Publishing
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9786064407931

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Post-Pandemic World by Olivia Toderean,Sergiu Celac,George Scutaru Pdf

The essays included in this volume highlight the new dilemmas arising from the tectonic shifts in world geopolitics that the Western community of values has to face now and in the years to come, considering the impact of accumulated security risks caused by growing uncertainties, imbalances, disruptive technologies, emergence of new forms of hybrid and information warfare short of outright armed confrontation, spill‑over of military competition in outer space and cyberspace, and instances of unlawful behaviour by some major international actors such as Russia and China. The accelerated pace of change emphasises the distinction between enablers and spoilers in international affairs, while the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic has added a new layer of concern as a real and present security threat on a global scale.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Political Science
ISBN : PSU:000022741592

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U.S. Policy Toward Bosnia and the Balkans by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs Pdf

Author : Stefano Bianchini
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : POLITICAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 9781786436610

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Liquid Nationalism and State Partitions in Europe by Stefano Bianchini Pdf

This timely book offers an in-depth exploration of state partitions and the history of nationalism in Europe from the Enlightenment onwards. Stefano Bianchini compares traditional national democratic development to the growing transnational demands of representation with a focus on transnational mobility and empathy versus national localism against the EU project. In an era of multilevel identity, global economic and asylum seeker crises, nationalism is becoming more liquid which in turn strengthens the attractiveness of ‘ethnic purity’ and partitions, affects state stability, and the nature of national democracy in Europe. The result may be exposure to the risk of new wars, rather than enhanced guarantees of peace.

Author : Robert D. Kaplan
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780812982220

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The Revenge of Geography by Robert D. Kaplan Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this “ambitious and challenging” (The New York Review of Books) work, the bestselling author of Monsoon and Balkan Ghosts offers a revelatory prism through which to view global upheavals and to understand what lies ahead for continents and countries around the world. In The Revenge of Geography, Robert D. Kaplan builds on the insights, discoveries, and theories of great geographers and geopolitical thinkers of the near and distant past to look back at critical pivots in history and then to look forward at the evolving global scene. Kaplan traces the history of the world’s hot spots by examining their climates, topographies, and proximities to other embattled lands. The Russian steppe’s pitiless climate and limited vegetation bred hard and cruel men bent on destruction, for example, while Nazi geopoliticians distorted geopolitics entirely, calculating that space on the globe used by the British Empire and the Soviet Union could be swallowed by a greater German homeland. Kaplan then applies the lessons learned to the present crises in Europe, Russia, China, the Indian subcontinent, Turkey, Iran, and the Arab Middle East. The result is a holistic interpretation of the next cycle of conflict throughout Eurasia. Remarkably, the future can be understood in the context of temperature, land allotment, and other physical certainties: China, able to feed only 23 percent of its people from land that is only 7 percent arable, has sought energy, minerals, and metals from such brutal regimes as Burma, Iran, and Zimbabwe, putting it in moral conflict with the United States. Afghanistan’s porous borders will keep it the principal invasion route into India, and a vital rear base for Pakistan, India’s main enemy. Iran will exploit the advantage of being the only country that straddles both energy-producing areas of the Persian Gulf and the Caspian Sea. Finally, Kaplan posits that the United States might rue engaging in far-flung conflicts with Iraq and Afghanistan rather than tending to its direct neighbor Mexico, which is on the verge of becoming a semifailed state due to drug cartel carnage. A brilliant rebuttal to thinkers who suggest that globalism will trump geography, this indispensable work shows how timeless truths and natural facts can help prevent this century’s looming cataclysms.

Author : A. Harding Ganz
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780811763912

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Ghost Division by A. Harding Ganz Pdf

Nicknamed the "Ghost Division" because of its speed and habit of turning up where its enemies least expected, the German 11th Panzer Division wreaked havoc in the East and West in World War II, playing a pivotal role in some of the biggest engagements, including Barbarossa, Stalingrad, Kursk, and the West.

Author : Zbigniew Brzezinski
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780465093083

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The Grand Chessboard by Zbigniew Brzezinski Pdf

Bestselling author and eminent foreign policy scholar Zbigniew Brzezinski's classic book on American's strategic mission in the modern world. In The Grand Chessboard, renowned geostrategist Zbigniew Brzezinski delivers a brutally honest and provocative vision for American preeminence in the twenty-first century. The task facing the United States, he argues, is to become the sole political arbiter in Eurasian lands and to prevent the emergence of any rival power threatening our material and diplomatic interests. The Eurasian landmass, home to the greatest part of the globe's population, natural resources, and economic activity, is the "grand chessboard" on which America's supremacy will be ratified and challenged in the years to come. In this landmark work of public policy and political science, Brzezinski outlines a groundbreaking and powerful blueprint for America's vital interests in the modern world. In this revised edition, Brzezinski addresses recent global developments including the war in Ukraine, the re-emergence of Russia, and the rise of China.