Security Issues in the Black Sea-Caspian Region

Abstract

The Black Sea-Caspian region is a region of beginnings and flowerings, of decline and disappearance, of contacts and cooperation among many world civilizations. Even nowadays, scholars and politicians turn to the ancient history of that space to justify their own views and predilections. That their attempts are not always successful is another matter. At present, the region bounded by states with an outlet to the Black or Caspian seas is a hub, an intersection for all imaginable civilizational, ethnic, cultural, and other parameters or models of human development.