Geopolitics, Revisionism and the Black Sea

... Yanukovich’s toppling regime and the vacuum of power that left Ukraine on the brink of dismemberment triggered a set of events that 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 post Cold War reliance on the natural progression of the European project and its unfettered expansion towards the ...