Geopolitics, Revisionism and the Black Sea

... have loomed before civil strife actually irrupted in Ukraine amid deep-rooted political uncertainties. That claims upon the Crimean peninsula would be eventually raised by Putin’s Russia, concentrating troops at the borders and effecting what appeared to be a military invasion, followed by a political validation ... ... 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 ...