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Why the EU Needs a Strategy for the Black Sea Region

3 January 2007

By Lara Scarpitta*
It is old news that geography matters in foreign policy. A dormant EC/EU had to learn this vital lesson in 1989, when communism crumbled behind its safe walls. Faced with the sudden prospect of bordering poor, unpredictable and unstable neighbours, it responded by anchoring the former soviet satellites of Central Europe with the [...]

Limited Opportunities and the Rise of Islamic Extremism in the North Caucasus, Balkans and Turkey

1 October 2006

By Alisa Voznaya
The tenets of Islamic radicalism, often associated with Wahhabism, a fundamentalist form of Islam prevalent in Saudi Arabia, are slowly penetrating the previously secular populations in the Balkans and the North Caucasus. In Turkey, where 99 percent of the population identify themselves as Muslim, the unique sense of secularism is also beginning to [...]


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