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AIM AND SCOPE
In the last few years, radical changes have occurred in the strategic security environment of the Black Sea region and the Balkans. Russia’s interventions in the region and invasion of Ukraine not only reshaped the security situation in the Black Sea region but also increased concerns in the Balkans.
These developments have changed these regions’ importance and key regional players’ roles for
European and global security. While the Black Sea was rarely considered among the world’s most
important strategic spaces, Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has shifted the Black Sea region from the periphery to the center of the Euro-Atlantic security processes. The war also indicated that the Black Sea region should be considered not separately but as closely connected to the Balkans and as a part of the whole European security system.
As the current situation shows, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has negatively affected the already
fragile stability in the Western Balkans. The region faces new troubles. Bosnia and Herzegovina is confronted with calls for secession in the autonomous Serb-dominated entity, Republika Srpska. There exist grievances of the Croat population living in the Federation as well. Meanwhile, efforts to resolve Serbia-Kosovo dispute have come to a standstill, tensions brew anew between the two sides which make minority communities on both sides of the border vulnerable to a possible renewed conflict. Moreover, regional instability is also deteriorating as a result of the increasing disagreements between Türkiye and Greece in the Aegean and in the Eastern Mediterranean.
Against this backdrop, İstanbul Arel University will hold a face-to-face international congress on
30-31 May 2024. The Congress’s main theme is “Changing Strategic Security Landscape in the Black Sea and the Balkans: Challenges and Opportunities”. The Congress aims to analyze the current challenges, risks, threats, and opportunities in the Black Sea region and the Balkans, explore future dynamics, and evaluate possible scenarios. The two-day congress is planned to examine the emerging strategic security landscape in the Black Sea region and the Balkans, explore the military and non-military threat perceptions of the states and peoples, discuss policies of global and regional actors and their roles in providing security, and assess the role of international/regional institutions to meet new challenges and threats.
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