The Three Seas Initiative and Romania’s Grand Behaviour in the Black Sea Area: Change and Continuity
Journal: Central European Journal of International and Security Studies
Year: 2024

Drawing on classical realism, the article investigates whether the Three Seas Initiative (3SI), just like the other subregional projects that Romania took part in since joining NATO in 2004, has been part of Romania’s external balancing towards Russia. In contrast to the 1990s, when the Black Sea area had not been mentioned in Romania’s strategic documents, Bucharest came up with a grand principle (the internationalisation of the Black Sea area) and a grand behaviour (external balancing) once it