Transcript Global Challenges in Black Sea Region and Security Aspects

Global Challenges in Black Sea
Region and Security Aspects of
Economic cooperation
By Dr. Eka Sepashvili
Introduction
Integration and regionalism as modern
trends of development
• Current tendency of world economy
development
• Integration and Globalization
• Contemporary Regionalism
• Integration in Developing world
Circumstances in Black Sea
Region for Cooperation
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Regional market of 1/3 billion people
Improving economies
Strategic position - center of Eurasia
Energy and mineral resources / routes
Great nature, culture- tourism paradise
Technological and scientific base
Competitive operation costs
Talented / educated people
Great scope for business, investments
The Sources of Instability in
Black Sea Region
• The birth New state Actors in the region
• The imperfect political stability of the transitional
countries
• Three largest armed forces (Russia, Turkey and
Ukraine)
• Control over the armed forces
• Naval balances of the Black Sea
• Convention of the Law of the Sea
• Ecological problems
• Inhomogeneous economic systems
New concepts of 21st century
• The new concept of security;
• The new concept of economic
cooperation;
Solving the problems in Black
Sea Region
Economic cooperation
Peace and stability
Prosperity
The organization of BSEC as Security Building
Measure in Black Sea Region
• Establishing of the organization of Black
Sea Economic Cooperation
• 25 June, 1992 in Istanbul 11 countries of
Black sea region signed "Summit
Declaration on Black Sea Economic
Cooperation.
• Black Sea Economic Cooperation - BSEC
– Countries
BSEC Countries
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Azerbaijan
Albania
Armenia
Bulgaria
Georgia
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Greece
Moldova
Romania
Russia
Turkey
Ukraine
Obstacles for Security Building
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High security concerns and diversity of national
security policies.
Region countries lack a sense of regional interest and
a common view of external threat.
The Black Sea basin countries belong to different
political and security organizations,
Low degree of commitment to cooperation within the
organization of BSEC.
The fear of being dominated by larger
Lack of implementation mechanisms within the
organization of
There is no efficient interface between BSEC and other
organizations
Regional Stability and Security
through Economic Cooperation
The factors that will stimulate the region-building
opportunities are:
• the effective utilization of the energy sector;
• the involvement of the private sector, of the private industries in
general and the banks;
• the growth of the trade relations and the rise in the effectiveness of
the BSEC;
• the involvement of the national political element in the regional
cooperation: governmental, parliamentary and of local authorities;
• the evolution of the educational and cultural relations in the Black
Sea region;
• the peaceful, friendly and stable bilateral relations of the 11 BSEC
countries;