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Russian-European Relations in the Balkans and Black Sea Region: Great Power Identity and the Idea of

Russian-European Relations: An “Unexpected” Crisis Greatness, Identity, and Method Great Power: Material and Ideational Dimensions Constructivism and Two Conceptualisations of Identity Representational Identity and Discourse Analysis: Some Dilemmas My Eclectic Analytical Approach An Anthropology of National Identity Method and Outline Notes Writing Russianness, Greatness and Europe in the 1960s Holy Grail and Promised Land: The Balkans and the Black Sea in Russian Identity The Black Sea and the Balkans as a Holy Grail of Russia The Promised Land: Eternal North-to-South Movement Russian Selves and European Others: Relational Identity Construction Russia’s Triple Self and Triple Gap Between Soviet Adult and Soviet Youth Multiple European Others Conclusions Notes Writing Russianess, Greatness, Europe, and the Balkans in the Late Soviet Discourse in 1980s The B lack Sea-Balkans Nexus in the Late Soviet Discourse Relational Identity Construction Reading the EU Through the Web of Other USSR-Yugoslavia-Europe Self-sacrifice and Great Power Practices Conclusions Notes Russian-European Security Interaction and the Idea of Great Powerhood Between 1991-1999 New Soviet Russian Greatness vs. New Western Russia (1991-1993)New Western Russia’s Greatness and the Balkans True Europe and Policy Options in the Balkans and the Black Sea Region Russia and True Europe in the Black Sea Region Civilising Europe in the Balkans True Europe: Kosovo Crisis and the Evolution of the EU Conclusions Notes Reinvention of Europe and EU-Russia Relations in Putin’s Era 2000-2010 Dislocation and Identity Management Russia and EU as Civilising Europe Dealing with Civilising Europe in the Black Sea Region Preventing Bloodshed and Imitating Painstaking Peace-Making Efforts PRISOIEDINIATES—INVOLVING CIVILISING Europe as Junior Partner “Watch and Learn, but Don’t Touch Anything”83: Disempowering the EU in the Region Russian-Georgian War and Education of the EU Conclusions Notes “Black Swan”: New Greatness, False Europe and the Ukraine Crisis (2002-2014)New Greatness: Identity, Discourse, and Agency The End of “True Europe”: Constructivism Unleashed Ukrainian Crisis 1: Russia, Europe, and Crimea Perceptions, Butterfly Effects, and “Reality Bites”Ukrainian Crisis 2: NovoRossiya, Minsk, and the Return of Civilising Europe Negotiations and Return of Civilising Europe War and Minsk: Conflict-resolution in Donbass Conclusions Notes Bibliography

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True Europe and Policy Options in the Balkans and the Black Sea Region
Several kinds of evidence demonstrate that Russia treated the organisation with far greater respect than any other international structures. First, Russia actively promoted the transformation of the conference into a proper international organisation. Back in 1992, the OSCE Summit in Helsinki issued...
(Russian-European Relations in the Balkans and Black Sea Region: Great Power Identity and the Idea of Europe)
Nature-Based Tourism in Turkey: The Yayla in Turkey’s Eastern Black Sea Region
Faruk Alaeddinoglu and Mehmet §eremet Since the 1960s, interest in sustainable tourism has seen a massive growth, the overwhelming focus of which was on creating an alternative to ‘mass’ tourism by changing the way people think about their participation in tourism (Williams 1998)....
(Alternative Tourism in Turkey: Role, Potential Development and Sustainability)
Socio-economic Features of the Black Sea Region
Before introducing the case studies, we offer some brief insights into the Black Sea region’s sociocultural background which will help the reader to understand life in the region. During the Cold War, this region was strategically important for Turkey and its allies in their fight against the Soviet...
(Alternative Tourism in Turkey: Role, Potential Development and Sustainability)
Black Sea Region
This region’s environment is characterized by mountains, high plateaus, forests, and a climate heavily influenced by the Black Sea and the Pontic Mountains (cool winters and relatively warm summers with lots of rain that fall throughout the year). Due to this cooler, wet climate, the growing season...
(Alternative Tourism in Turkey: Role, Potential Development and Sustainability)
Russia and True Europe in the Black Sea Region
As in the Balkans, Russia was prepared to accept the OSCE as the major international actor in the Black Sea region. Even the UN Mission also visited the region, and the control of the conflict resolution was eventually taken over by the OSCE. During the early stage of the Transnistria conflict in Moldova...
(Russian-European Relations in the Balkans and Black Sea Region: Great Power Identity and the Idea of Europe)
Dealing with Civilising Europe in the Black Sea Region
Even though Russia failed to play the role of a great power in the Balkans, the Black Sea region retained a special status for Russian identity. First of all, the Black Sea was perceived as a sort of Promised Land—the destination and locus of adventurous freedom for President Putin. In one of his biographies,...
(Russian-European Relations in the Balkans and Black Sea Region: Great Power Identity and the Idea of Europe)
Egyptian faience flaccid phallus pendants in the Mediterranean, Near East, and Black Sea regions
Phallic imagery is well known in the Roman period, appearing in a variety of forms and media on rings, pendants, wall carvings, and mosaic floors (Johns 1982: 61-75; Parker 2015, 2017; Faraonc 2018: 75-8; Whitmore 2018; see Chapters 4 and 9). While early scholars interpreted these items and iconography...
(Un-Roman Sex: Gender, Sexuality, and Lovemaking in the Roman Provinces and Frontiers)
Holy Grail and Promised Land: The Balkans and the Black Sea in Russian Identity
It is now commonly acknowledged that the Black Sea region has been an arena of great power rivalry.11 Many references relate to the era of Catherine the Great or the Russian-Turkish War of the nineteenth century. A closer look at history textbooks allows for a more nuanced understanding of the role of...
(Russian-European Relations in the Balkans and Black Sea Region: Great Power Identity and the Idea of Europe)
The Black Sea and the Balkans as a Holy Grail of Russia
Nations need their origin myths. Greeks and Italians looked for it in their ancient history. Nordic countries looked back to the Scandinavian sagas. It has been a consensual view that the “Soviet nation could not look back to any particular native territory or primordial narration myth and had to invoke...
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Is the Black Sea really black?
No, it is not. This sea, located to the north of Turkey, is quite deep and has darker looking water than most water bodies, but receives its name from the inhospitableness of the waters for sailing. A desalination plant in the Caribbean pumps salt water out of the ocean and makes it suitable for drinking....
(The handy geography answer book)