STUDY Policy Department External Policies REGIONAL COOPERATION IN THE BLACK SEA AREA: ANALYSIS OF THE OPPORTUNITIES TO FOSTER SYNERGIES IN THE REGION FOREIGN AFFAIRS December 2007 JANUARY 2004 EN This study was requested by the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs. This study is published in the following language: English Authors: Krassimir Y. Nikolov Burcu Gültekin-Punsmann Study made under the framework contract with the Trans European Policy Studies Association (TEPSA) Krassimir Y. Nikolov holds a Jean Monnet chair at Varna Free University “Chernorizets Hrabar”, Bulgaria, and is Secretary General of the Bulgarian European Community Studies Association (BECSA). Previously he was Senior Research Fellow and Director of the Institute of European Studies and Information – Sofia. His research interests focus on CFSP, ENP, Eastern EU enlargement, EU institutional system and decision making. Dr. Burcu Gültekin-Punsmann holds a PhD degree from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris. She is Research Fellow at the Center for European Studies at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara and the Turkey project manager of the Caucasus Business and Development Network (CBDN) project run by the London based international NGO International Alert. Former NATO Manfred Wörner research fellow, she is currently acting as the principal investigator of the NATO financed project “Bridging Perceptions of Security, Integrating the Black Sea Region”. Responsible Official: Dag Sourander Directorate-General for External Policies of the Union Policy Department BD4 06M083 rue Wiertz B-1047 Brussels E-mail:
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