Olexandr Honcharenko, Prof., CISSS President * * * The Caspian-Black Sea region is taken today on the world geopolitical map as an extremely important place, due to the presence of huge natural resources and major strategic transport corridors, the control of which will determine actually control of Euro-Asia both today and in the future. For this reason on this region we focused geopolitical, political-military, financial- economic and other interests of main global and regional powers. From the other point of view one of major geopolitical feature of the region is growing security vacuum which potentially could endanger the security and stability of the whole Eurasia. Is there a way to fill this security vacuum? What political forces or structures should be responsible for the future stability and security of this region? Russia and Russia's satellites from the Collective Security Treaty? NATO and NATO's potential members in this region? стр. 21 Regional countries and regional security structures? In this intervention I will try to analyze the present day situation and major threats and security challenges to the region and speculate about the possible alternatives for the future including regional security structures and crisis management. Today the internal composition of the region is quite chaotic the clear geopolitical structure is absent. Interests of the region actors are different. For a long time the region was the area of interaction and mutual penetration of various cultures and civilizations and the field of constant clash of external geopolitical formations. Because of the long-term domination of foreign powers, the consolidated core system of the interests of the Black Sea area countries was never created. Region countries did not become considerable geopolitical powers and usually looked for the external patronage or maneuvered between various external powers that competed for domination using the natural and people resources of the reg ... Читать далее