Klympush-Tsintsadze Ivanna - The Black Sea Region Cooperation and Security Building

THE
BLACK SEA
REGION

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THE
BLACK SEA
REGION

COOPERATION AND SECURITY BUILDING

EDITED BY

OLEKSANDR PAVLIUK AND IVANNA KLYMPUSH-TSINTSADZE

First published 2004 by M.E. Sharpe

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The Black Sea region : cooperation and security building / edited by Oleksandr Pavliuk and Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze.

p. cm.

ISBN 0-7656-1225-9 (alk. paper)

1. National securityBlack Sea Region. 2. Black Sea RegionPolitics and government20th century. I. Pavliuk, Oleksandr. II. Klympush-Tsintsadze, Ivanna. III. EastWest Institute.

DJK66 .B58 2003
355.0331822dc22

2003015289

ISBN 13: 9780765612250 (hbk)

Contents

Oleksandr Pavliuk

Charles King

Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze

Arkady Moshes

Roy Allison

A. Necdet Pamir

Andrzej Karkoszka

Hryhoriy Perepelytsya

Leonid Polyakov

James Sherr

Sergiu Celac

Oleksandr Pavliuk

This volume is the concluding product of a two-year research and policy-forming project, The Black Sea Strategy Group: Strengthening Cooperation, Security and Stability in the Black Sea Region, run by the EastWest Institute (EWI). The project became possible thanks to generous support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, to which the EWI is grateful.

The goal of this project was to provide an unofficial regional framework for discussing and assessing the conflict potential and security challenges facing the Black Sea region with a view to identifying obstacles to regional security and cooperation and suggesting possible solutions that could be given further attention in official circles. The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, which took place during the project implementation, sharpened our comprehension of the close link between global and regional security and added urgency to the necessity of consolidating the nascent cooperation process in the Black Sea region and strengthening regional security and stability.

In the course of two years a series of six meetings of the Black Sea Strategy Group (BSSG) were convened across the Black Sea region (in Bucharest, Baku, Sofia, Istanbul, Athens, and Kyiv, often in partnerships with local think tanks and NGOs). Participants in these meetings discussed security issues in the region and their impact on regional stability and the process of regional cooperation and region-building. These meetings brought together dozens of peoplepoliticians, officials, private sector representatives, leading academics and researchers from all member-countries of the organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC), as well as from beyond the region. It was indeed a collaborative effort, and the project owes its results and achievements to all participants, and their openness and willingness to share their knowledge and expertise. Their opinions and perspectives greatly benefited the project and more broadly, the policy debate in the Black Sea region. The EWI and the editors of this volume wish to thank all partners in this project and participants in the meetings, especially those composing the core of the BSSG.

Through dialogue and interaction during the projects entire duration, through regular meeting reports and occasional policy briefs, the project has raised awareness among players within and outside the region of security challenges in the Black Sea area and of the need for further efforts, including via the existing mechanisms of regional cooperation, to approach and address those challenges. An important and encouraging development, which reflects the deliberations and recommendations of the BSSG, is the recent decision of the Meeting of the Council of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the BSEC Member States to consider ways and means of enhancing the contribution of the BSEC to strengthen security and stability in the region, and to create for that purpose an ad hoc Study Group including representatives from all BSEC member states.

The contributors to this book were active participants in the project, many of them constituting the core of the BSSG. The editors would like to thank the authors for their commitment and effort. We are also grateful to Vasil Hudak, Hannu Himmanen, John Tedstrom, and Andrei Zagorski for their involvement and support at various stages of the project implementation. We appreciate the work and patience of Kennie Lyman, who did the technical editing. We also wish to thank Kristie Evenson and Rebecca Weaver from the EWI for their assistance in editing this volume. The contents of this book, however, are solely the responsibility of the editors and the authors. They do not necessarily reflect the views of the EastWest Institute or of the Carnegie Corporation of New York.