BAKU-TBILISI-CEYHAN PIPELINE: GEOPOLITICAL AND GEOECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS IN CENTRAL ASIA AND CAUCASUS

It was May, 25th, 2005, when a crucial event for the begining of the 21st century occured in Baku: the opening of the gigantic American pipeline, Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan, whose political construction begun more than ten year...

THE GLOBALISATION AND THE EFFECTS OF PROJECTING IT INTO THE REGIONAL SECURITY FIELD

Globalisation is a term more and more used by persons with different backgrounds. As a matter of fact, it incites by the complexity of processes and phenomena that induce. The regional and global security environment...

THE GEOPOLITICS OF STRATEGIC ENERGY RESOURCES. STRATEGIC ENERGETIC RESOURCES

The Strategic Energetic Resources – Geopolitical considerations. Oil is not a simple word or a resource like any others. It defi nes another category of resources – the geo-strategic ones. On the other hand, it defi...

THE NATION-STATE IN THE CONTEXT OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION

ELEMENTS OF THE INSECURITY'S INTRICATE EQUATION

The challenges to security studies that result from the development of a new international background are obvious: the global emergence of new threats has proved the inefficiency of older con- cepts. The presence and...