A key question for European energy transition is which forms of renewable technologies will play a central role in this process. The recent dynamic growth offshore wind power together with the vast potential seas, including Baltic Sea, make technology an increasingly attractive and viable option. Considering high installation connection costs, government support considered essential development...

This research explains how states’ expanding security policy contributes to its credibility of threats in international relations. The context is represented by the case Indonesia’s South China Sea expansion under Joko Widodo administration, which became more assertive. Most current literatures picture engagement setting relation with and effort build regional stability. paper aims locate into ...

today regional integration has become the main source of concern for governments. in the era of globalization different parts of the world have formed regional groupings. realizing their geopolitical, geostrategic and geo-economic status, these regions have regional structures with various degrees of regionalism. geopolitical region of the caucasus is considered as one of the geopolitical regio...

The Montreux Convention has once again become one of the international normative acts maximum interest, in context Russian-Ukrainian conflict. rights and obligations stipulated content this act are carefully studied terms effects generated, especially at military, economic geostrategic level. Protecting security Black Sea area becomes priority objective, to which decisions on how implement prov...

Asingle factor may not fully explain the rationale for India’s quest for a Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) system. Security, prestige, and an aspiration for power projection are predominant factors in New Delhi’s acquisition of nuclear weapons, as well as in its pursuit of a BMD system. Particularly after the 2005 India–U.S. nuclear deal, which allowed the United States to provide nuclearrelate...

The Kosovo war of 1999 brought the checkered legacies of Russian and Western geopolitics back to the forefront of international relations. Central to the discussions of the Balkans is its century-old legacy as a Shatterbelt or Crush Zone. Though not identified by Saul Cohen as a Shatterbelt during the Cold War, the region is now located where the maritime (Western) and land power (Russian) geos...