This study addresses the EU Common Fisheries Policy's (CFP) call for ecosystem-based approach to fisheries management (EAFM) by evaluating its implementation in the Mediterranean and Black Seas. Building on previous research (Piet and Arthur, 2022), it assesses the legal setting of EAFM,...

This paper assesses the impact of the Black Sea Grain Initiative on the grain futures market. We rely on counterfactual evaluation techniques and detailed futures price series to estimate how corn and wheat futures prices and historical volatility responded to the Grain Deal enforcement,...

Sustainable development policies of the Black Sea Region is vital to European Union given increasing environmental disturbances by dynamic and heterogenous factors across the enclave beginning from 1990s. This study assesses long run asymmetric effect of urbanization, energy consumption and...

In the Black Sea, Turkey has been able to engage in resource exploration and joint security arrangements with its neighbours. Ankara's approach to the Black Sea demonstrates that with the right diplomatic efforts and mutual recognition of inter­ests, regional cooperation is possible even in...

Das Schwarze Meer ist ein Spannungsfeld. Es ist Schauplatz der Russland-Nato-Konfrontation und Projektionsfläche der russischen und türkischen Vorstellungen einer regionalen Ordnung. Die Sonderrolle der Türkei in der Region ergibt sich in erster Linie aus der Umsetzung des Vertrags von...

Turkey’s policy in the Black Sea region is the result of not only a complex relationship with Russia but also of a difficult relationship with the West. In particular, US policy in the Middle East has a major impact on how Ankara positions itself in the Black Sea region. An important feature...

As a result of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Ankara now perceives the Black Sea region as a much less stable and predictable environment. Türkiye has voted alongside the West in the UN resolutions condemning Russia's actions, and provided Ukraine with arms, but refrained from joining...

As a result of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Ankara now perceives the Black Sea region as a much less stable and predictable environment. Türkiye has voted alongside the West in the UN resolutions condemning Russia's actions, and provided Ukraine with arms, but refrained from joining...

The conflict between Ukraine and Russia raises several questions and uncertainty about the cereal supply chain and market trends. This international crisis and other factors influencing the market, such as the environmental and climate ones, have placed greater attention on Italy's dependence on...

This paper aims to analyse the cooperation and security dynamics that characterise the Black Sea Region (BSR) since the Russian military aggression against Ukraine in February 2022, while also considering the major historical developments in the area. The study examines the interests and actions...

The article examines the geopolitical significance of the black sea region for the foreign policy of Russia. The history of Muscovy’s development before the Russian Empire is mainly connected with the process of increasing expansion on the Black sea and in the Caucasus region. Traditionally,...

Das Schwarze Meer ist ein Spannungsfeld. Es ist Schauplatz der Russland-Nato-Konfrontation und Projektionsfläche der russischen und türkischen Vorstellungen einer regionalen Ordnung. Die Sonderrolle der Türkei in der Region ergibt sich in erster Linie aus der Umsetzung des Vertrags von...

The Black Sea is a region of tension. It is the arena of the Russia-NATO confrontation while at the same time serving as a projection area for Russian and Turkish visions of regional order. Turkey’s special role in the region stems primarily from the imple­men­tation of the Montreux...

The current context generated by the armed conflict between Ukraine and Russia brings to the foreground an important issue concerning the international trade in cereals, mainly the transit of cereals from/to Ukraine via the Black Sea to/from Ukraine's trading partners. While the transit of...

Although electricity grids shape and define both political and economic spaces, the geopolitical significance of electricity remains underestimated. In political communities and beyond, such grids establish new channels for projecting geopolitical influence and new spheres of influence. In the...

Nicht zuletzt infolge merklich gestiegener Einkommen, veränderter Verbraucherwünsche und beachtlicher technologischer Fortschritte verzeichnet der weltweite Agrarhandel in den vergangenen drei Jahrzehnten historische Entwicklungen. Diese betreffen (insbesondere) auch die internationalen...

Income growth, changing consumer preferences and technological progress are having a transformative effect on global food trade and, in particular, wheat markets. This is evidenced by two main developments: First, the growing demand for wheat in Asia and Africa is increasingly being met by the...

Рост доходов, изменение предпочтений потребителей и технический прогресс оказывают преобразующее влияние на мировую торговлю продуктами питания и, в...

While the Black Sea has historically been an area of significant geostrategic importance, this has not made it a vibrant zone of commerce, transport, energy, tourism, or cultural exchange. Rather, it has become a theatre of struggle for dominance and competing geopolitical and geo-economic...

The South Caucasus region has a strategic geopolitical significance due to its importance for energy transports to Europe, but the conflicts, the pandemic and the instability affect people's safety. Moreover, these conflicts are an obstacle to the economic and social development of these...

Nicht zuletzt infolge merklich gestiegener Einkommen, veränderter Verbraucherwünsche und beachtlicher technologischer Fortschritte verzeichnet der weltweite Agrarhandel in den vergangenen drei Jahrzehnten historische Entwicklungen. Diese betreffen (insbesondere) auch die internationalen...

Income growth, changing consumer preferences and technological progress are having a transformative effect on global food trade and, in particular, wheat markets. This is evidenced by two main developments: First, the growing demand for wheat in Asia and Africa is increasingly being met by the...

Income growth, changing consumer preferences and technological progress are having a transformative effect on global food trade and, in particular, wheat markets. This is evidenced by two main developments: First, the growing demand for wheat in Asia and Africa is increasingly being met by the...

The provision underlying the reforms in the EaP countries, the concept of "normative power" was supposed to ensure their preparation for integration into the EU. But the limited results of the European integration policy in the Black Sea region indicate that the adopted strategy does not meet...