What is it about?
The Black Sea region is strategically geopolitical in that it is where the routes of Europe, the Caucasus, Asia, and the Middle East intersect. Ensuring stability and security in the Black Sea area is essential for emerging new security architecture. In search of balance, the challenges are met by the Three Seas Initiative (3SI) and the deepening of strategic relations with the United Arab Emirates. The UAE, anchored in the Euro-Atlantic partnership and with extensive influence, emerges as an interesting strategic partner. When analyzing the Three Seas Initiative, it should be noted that the United States of America joined the implementation of 3SI, seeing it as an opportunity to pursue American interests in LNG markets and in a broader geopolitical dimension, combining this initiative with projects in the Middle East. This research paper is the first to analyze the foreign and security policy of the two Black Sea countries, Bulgaria and Romania, that participate in the Three Seas Initiative from the geostrategic perspective and relations with the United Arab Emirates. The research work is based on empirical research, the results of which are derived mainly from 10 years of direct observation, as well as the participation of the author of the article in many initiatives related to cooperation between all 3SI countries with the United Arab Emirates, among others as an Ambassador, Senior Advisor at Dubai Expo 2020.
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Why is it important?
This article is the first to analyze the foreign and security policy of the two Black Sea countries participating in the Three Seas Initiative, Bulgaria, and Romania, from the geostrategic perspective and relations with the United Arab Emirates. The research work is based on empirical research. The results are derived mainly from 10 years of direct observation, as well as the participation of the author of the article in many initiatives related to cooperation between the countries of the Three Seas Initiative and the United Arab Emirates, including as Ambassador, Senior Advisor is Dubai Expo 2020 also responsible for the strategies and dynamization of all 3SI countries in UAE relations.
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From the beginning of 2011, i.e., the start of the so-called Arab Spring, relations between the United Arab Emirates and the European Union members, especially with Central and Eastern European countries, intensified. Additionally, this process was favored by the situation related to the implementation of the Treaty of Lisbon, including the establishment of new instruments of the Common Foreign and Security Policy and the change of priorities in the United States of America's foreign and security policy, i.e. transferring political, economic and security strategic priorities from the Euro-Atlantic and Middle East area to the Pacific region.
Professor Adam Krzymowski
Zayed University
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This page is a summary of: THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE BLACK SEA COUNTRIES OF THE THREE SEAS INITIATIVE RELATIONS WITH THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, On-line Journal Modelling the New Europe, December 2020, Babes-Bolyai University,
DOI: 10.24193/ojmne.2020.34.04.
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