Georgia-EU/NATO Relationship in aegis of Geostrategic and Geopolitical Shifts at Wider Black Sea Region: New Challenges and New Strategic Partnership
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MAISAIA, Vakhtang. Georgia-EU/NATO Relationship in aegis of Geostrategic and Geopolitical Shifts at Wider Black Sea Region: New Challenges and New Strategic Partnership. In: Ţările post-sovietice între UE şi Federaţia Rusă – analiza circumstanţelor specifice şi tendinţelor politice, 27 septembrie 2016, Chișinău. Chișinău, Republica Moldova: Centrul Editorial-Poligrafic al USM, 2016, pp. 439-451. ISBN 978-9975-71-829-5.
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Georgia-EU/NATO Relationship in aegis of Geostrategic and Geopolitical Shifts at Wider Black Sea Region: New Challenges and New Strategic Partnership


Pag. 439-451

Maisaia Vakhtang
 
IBSU Black Sea Geopolitical Research Center
 
 
Disponibil în IBN: 18 iulie 2018


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From the macro perspective of geopolitics, the global balance of interest is being decided in three main regions: Central Asia (Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, and Turkmenistan), the Caucasus and finally the oil exporting countries of the Persian Gulf. The geopolitical triangle which connects these regions plays an important role in contemporary world affairs. These three regions are assembled into one key geostrategic space labeled as “Wider Black Sea Area”. Geo-economics and political statecraft exemplify the true dimensions of the geopolitical wars that are being waged in both the minds of politicians their proxy agents in the field. Saul B. Cohen, an American political scientist in the midst of the 70s of the 20th century, elaborated the geopolitical concept of the so-called "Gateway Regions"[1, p.50-50]. He explained that gateway regions have several distinct characteristics. Usually there are distinct cultural and historic culture hearths, often economically more developed than surrounding areas, but relatively small in population and land area. More importantly, these heaths are located in the midst of key crossroads and access points. Location allows these gateway regions to straddle geopolitical borders and serve an integrative function between neighboring realms, i.e. acting as an honest broker in ongoing geopolitical processes and conflicts. These conflicts can be caused by differences in specialized manufacturing, trade, tourism, financial services and military capabilities in the respective realms. There are some obvious externalities which dictate geoeconomic perspectives, the most obvious ones being the oil that will flow through pipelines (Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan; Baku-Tbilisi-Supsa, TAP), which will connect Azerbaijan with Turkey via Georgia, and the natural gas delivery networks which will soon follow. It is expected that the delivery of Azerbaijan’s reserves will impact positively on Georgia and the entire region [2]. They will make it possible for the West to be less dependent on current suppliers of energy, especially those from Persian Gulf. Georgia is small in population and area and its location gives direct access to the Black Sea and Turkey, a member of NATO. 

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Black Sea region, EU, geopolitics, geostrategy, Energy Security,

NATO,

the Eastern Partnership initiative