Black Sea, European Maritime Space and Geostrategic Implications

AutorGabriel-Liviu Ispas
Cargo del AutorAssociate professor and dean, Faculty of law, Titu Maiorescu University
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CHAPTER 32
Black Sea, European Maritime Space
and Geostrategic Implications
Gabriel LIVIU ISPAS
Associate professor and dean, Faculty of law,
Titu Maiorescu University
Summary: 1. Introduction. 2. Romania And Bulgaria, and the new European context.
3. International Convention on the Law of the Sea (1982). 4. The maritime strategy of
the European Union and its application in the Black Sea basin. 5. Black Sea Synergy Ini-
tiative. 6. Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda. 7. Conclusions.
1. INTRODUCTION
The Black Sea has always been the connecting point between civilizations,
history showing that this space was at the conuence of the interests of the
great empires, from the Roman Empire to the Ottoman and Tsarist Empires.
With a signicant development in the period when crossing the Bosporus and
Dardanelles Straits was free1, the Black Sea area suered during the Cold War,
both in strategic and economic terms, as well as in the sustainable development
of a specic economy.
The geostrategic shifts in international policy that occurred after the terror-
ist attacks of 9/11 2001, the decision to strengthen the eastern ank of NATO, but
1 The Montreux Convention of 1936 oered Turkey the possibility, for security reasons,
to temporarily restrict or temporarily block the movement through the straits

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