Summary
The Russia-Ukraine War has elevated the geopolitical significance of the Black Sea. The sea has become a site of military battles, blockaded trade routes, and environmental degradation. The entanglement of this body of water with many contentious developments underscores the need for a deeper and multifaceted understanding of its role in contemporary geopolitics. Yet, the military-strategic analysis, which dominates the academic scholarship on the Black Sea, ignores other important geopolitical dimensions, such as interests and knowledge of the local coastal communities and the materiality of the sea water in shaping geopolitical relations. The project, therefore, aims for a critical, bottom-up and material geopolitical reframing of the Black Sea in which the body of water and its coasts remain both a central object of analysis and a key site of study of geopolitics. Empirically, the research focuses on the Black Sea’s role in the European Union’s (EU) geopoliticization of its European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) since 2014. It investigates the Black Sea’s role in the European Union’s geopolitical agenda and practice. Methodologically, the research brings different geographical scales and vantage points on the Black Sea geopolitics together, such as the EU institutions in Brussels, coastal communities on the Black Sea, and the sea itself, in order to capture various elements and phases of EU’s practice of geopolitics from inception to implementation and finally, effect and impact.
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| Web resources: | https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101154464 |
| Start date: | 01-01-2025 |
| End date: | 31-12-2026 |
| Total budget - Public funding: | - 191 760,00 Euro |
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The Russia-Ukraine War has elevated the geopolitical significance of the Black Sea. The sea has become a site of military battles, blockaded trade routes, and environmental degradation. The entanglement of this body of water with many contentious developments underscores the need for a deeper and multifaceted understanding of its role in contemporary geopolitics. Yet, the military-strategic analysis, which dominates the academic scholarship on the Black Sea, ignores other important geopolitical dimensions, such as interests and knowledge of the local coastal communities and the materiality of the sea water in shaping geopolitical relations. The project, therefore, aims for a critical, bottom-up and material geopolitical reframing of the Black Sea in which the body of water and its coasts remain both a central object of analysis and a key site of study of geopolitics. Empirically, the research focuses on the Black Sea’s role in the European Union’s (EU) geopoliticization of its European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) since 2014. It investigates the Black Sea’s role in the European Union’s geopolitical agenda and practice. Methodologically, the research brings different geographical scales and vantage points on the Black Sea geopolitics together, such as the EU institutions in Brussels, coastal communities on the Black Sea, and the sea itself, in order to capture various elements and phases of EU’s practice of geopolitics from inception to implementation and finally, effect and impact.Status
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HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01-01Update Date
24-11-2024
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