The Changing Strategic Paradigm in the Black Sea Zone and the Challenges to Regional Security
Journal: SSRN Electronic Journal
Year: 2019

The article analyses Russia’s particular actions aimed to alter the strategic balance in the Black Sea region in her favor. The 2008 war with Georgia and the increasing Russian presence in Abhazia, South Ossetia, Armenia, and Transnistria, in addition to the geopolitical quake(upheaval) that followed the Crimea annexation and the conflicts in Donbas supports our view. In assessing the military balance, a thorough comparison is made between the Russian Black Sea Fleet and that of Turkey, that sho