Perceptions of changing power, dyadic rivalries and security dilemma mechanisms in the wider Black Sea area
Journal: Social Science Open Access Repository (GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences)
Year: 2016

The NATO/EU countries and the Russian Federation have a common neighborhood in Eastern Europe, which includes the Black Sea region. This area could be defined as a "security complex", whose security architecture is made by the interaction of the various state and non-state actors, or as a geopolitical region. The riparian states are very heterogenous, they greatly differ in territory, population, economy and strategic affilitions. One important problem is that these countries - Bulgaria, Romania