Book/Printed Material Russia, NATO, and Black Sea security

Title

• Russia, NATO, and Black Sea security

Summary

• The Black Sea region is a central locus of the competition between Russia and the West for the future of Europe. The region experienced two decades of simmering conflicts even before Moscow's illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014, and Russia has used military force against countries in the region four times since 2008. The Kremlin is seeking to establish a sphere of privileged influence over countries in the region and limit their integration into Euro-Atlantic structures while enhancing Russia's regime stability and improving military capabilities for homeland defense and wider power projection into the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East. Despite this instability and conflict, U.S. and European officials and analysts have not given nearly as much attention to the region's security challenges as they have to those in Northern Europe. In this report, the authors first assess how Russia is employing a variety of nonmilitary and military instruments to advance its goals. They then consider how the three North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) allies (Bulgaria, Romania, and Turkey) and five NATO partners (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine) in the Black Sea region perceive and are responding to Russia's activities and where those countries' interests align and diverge. Finally, the authors identify possible elements of a Western strategy to protect mutual interests, counter Russian malign influence and aggression, and foster regional stability.

Names

• Flanagan, Stephen J., author
• Binnendijk, Anika, author
• Chindea, Irina A., author
• Costello, Katherine, author
• Kirkwood, Geoffrey, author
• Massicot, Dara, author
• Reach, Clint, author
• Rand Corporation
• United States. European Command

Created / Published

• Santa Monica, Calif. : RAND Corporation, [2020]

Headings

• -  North Atlantic Treaty Organization
• -  Rand Corporation
• -  Black Sea Region--Politics and government--21st century
• -  Black Sea Region--Relations--Russia (Federation)
• -  Black Sea Region--Strategic aspects
• -  International relations
• -  Politics and government
• -  Strategic aspects of individual places
• -  Black Sea Region
• -  Russia (Federation)
• -  2000-2099

Notes

• -  Also available on the Internet as a PDF file.
• -  Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-175).
• -  Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.

Medium

• 1 online resource (xvii, 175, pages) : illustrations.

Call Number/Physical Location

• JN98

Digital Id

• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdcebookspublic.2024739320

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2024739320

Rights Advisory

• This is non-restricted, fully open content that may be accessed on and off of the Library of Congress campus, with no restrictions, by an unlimited number of users

Access Advisory

• Unrestricted online access

Online Format

• image
• pdf

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2024739320

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