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Book SynopsisIn the last decade Russia has searched for new alternative policies to compensate for its political deficiencies and to balance its rivals in one of the key areas of the approaching geopolitical rivalry, the sea. The Russian assertiveness seen in the Black Sea-Mediterranean basin has recently been a real concern for the international community. In the six chapters of this book, contributors explain Moscow’s newly perceived assertive foreign and security behavior in the Black Sea and Mediterranean basin from their own perspectives, and reach a conclusion about the limits and validity of this new Russian ascendance in the region.
Trade Review“The New Geopolitical Realities for Russia brings together a multinational and interdisciplinary group of scholars with diverse perspectives and fresh thinking on the most recent challenges and frontiers of Russia’s resurgence from the Black Sea to the Eastern Mediterranean." -- Şener Aktürk, Koç University
“The New Geopolitical Realities for Russia is a very timely and illuminating book for the ongoing debate on the remapping of Russia’s role in global politics, especially in the context of geopolitics and geoeconomics.” -- Ayşegül Sever, Marmara University
Table of ContentsChapter 1 New Russian Mahanism Failed: Futile Geopolitical Dreams in the Black Sea and Mediterranean Nurşin Ateşoğlu Güney and Vişne Korkmaz Chapter 2 What Lies behind the Ukrainian Crisis and Moscow’s Gains and Losses? Ellen Wasylina Chapter 3 Russia's Energy Security Policy Challenges – Ways of Finding Compromise Between Local Tasks and Global Market Valeriy A. Kryukov and Janetta J. Medzhidova Chapter 4 Russia’s Geo-Economic Realism of Energy and International Relations Mert Bilgin Chapter 5 Russia-Iran Relations Gawdat Bahgat Chapter 6 Russia and Turkey: Interdependence in the Time of Hybrid Mahanism Vişne Korkmaz, Nurşin Ateşoğlu Güney, and Eda Güney
