TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wezeman,Siemon T.
AU  - Kuimova,Alaxandra
ED  - SIPRI
TI  - Romania and Black Sea security
T2  - SIPRI background paper
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Solna
PB  - SIPRI
KW  - Black Sea Region
KW  - regional security
KW  - Romania
N1  - SIP1923; "December 2018"; The Black Sea region is experiencing a changing military balance. The six littoral states (Bulgaria, Georgia, Romania, Russia, Turkey and Ukraine) intensified their efforts to build up their military potential after Russia’s takeover of Crimea and the start of the internationalized civil war in eastern Ukraine in 2014.
The events of 2014 have clearly had an impact on Romania’s perception of threats. Although official documents published by Romania since 2014 do not explicitly refer to Russia as a threat, they do raise concerns about security in the Black Sea region. Romania’s defence policy has also prioritized the modernization of its armed forces. As a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organ­ization (NATO), Romania has emphasized the strategic significance of the Black Sea region in NATO discussions; The authors would like to thank the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs for providing the funding that allowed this Background Paper to be produced. They would also like to thank all those
who agreed to share their expertise at the SIPRI workshop ‘Shifting Black Sea Security Dynamics’, 7–8 Dec. 2017
UR  - https://www.sipri.org/publications/2018/sipri-background-papers/romania-and-black-sea-security
ER  -