Geopolitics, Revisionism and the Black Sea

... seemed hardly believable within European political circles. Not so long ago, Ukraine was perceived to be a game changer in the Black Sea region, and indeed it was, but not in the way EU decision-makers envisioned it to be. Recent events dispelled the deep-rooted ... ... rather inconsequential, i.e. the Russo-Georgian war of 2008 and the more recent events that concluded with the annexation of the Crimean Peninsula. However, regional links and interdependencies are not entirely a Soviet legacy or the emanation of personalistic ...