MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND SCIENCE OF UKRAINE ODESA MECHNІKOV NATIONAL UNIVERSITY BLACK SEA REGION IN WORLD POLICY: ACTORS, FACTORS, AND SCENARIOS OF THE FUTURE MONOGRAPH Editors Olga Brusylovska, Volodymyr Dubovyk, and Igor Koval ODESA ONU 2020 Brusylovska, Olga, Dubovyk, Volodymyr, and Koval, Igor (eds.), Black Sea Region in World Policy: Actors, Factors, and Scenarios of the Future (Odesa: Odesa Mechnikov National University Press, 2020. – 168 p.). Odesa Mechnikov National University Press is a department of the Odesa Mechnikov National University. Odesa Mechnikov National University Dvoryanska, 2 65082 Odesa Tel: +38/048/723-52-54 Fax: +38/048/723-35-15 Email:
[email protected] http://onu.edu.ua/en/ Published in Ukraine by Odesa Mechnikov National University Press Elisavetynska, 12, Odesa, 65082. Published with support by Fulbright Ukraine Proofread by Valeriia Lozova All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Odesa Mechnikov National University. You must not circulate this work in any other form and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer. ISBN 978-617-689-406-3 © Odesa Mechnikov National University ISBN 978-617-689-407-0 Press 2020 DOI 10.18524/978-617-689-406-3 TABLE OF CONTENTS PREFACE ................................................................................................... 4 (Igor Koval) CHAPTER 1. STRUCTURAL REALISM VS CONSTRUCTIVISM? MODERN SCIENTIFIC APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF THE BLACK SEA REGION ................................................................. 6 (Olga Brusylovska) CHAPTER 2. TURKEY’S POLICY IN THE BLACK SEA REGION: THE BALANCE OF POWERS, THREATS AND INTERESTS ............. 27 (Yevgeniya Gaber) CHAPTER 3.