"Murky Seas
...That is of course an appealing vision, but it will be competing with others, particularly in the Black Sea region. Since 1992, Turkey – historically the greatest power in the Black Sea, arguably the region’s greatest power at present, and now also a pipeline hub – has promoted its own notion of a peaceful and prosperous Black Sea through the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC) group, an association of Black Sea countries and their immediate neighbors. "
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