Many of the world’s best and brightest STEM researchers have long moved to the US. But now that brain gain is at risk of ...

The Black Sea borders seven countries, with its coast spanning two EU member states — Bulgaria and Romania — as well as the EU accession candidates Georgia, Turkey and Ukraine, plus Russia.

Dov S. Zakheim is a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and vice chairman of the board for the Foreign Policy Research Institute.

Former First Minister and University of Stirling Chancellor Jack McConnell is to lead an international group which aims to drive regeneration of communities on the coast of the Black Sea. War-torn ...

Fellows in the Center for China Analysis’ (CCA) Foreign Policy and National Security pillar conduct research into China’s external affairs. We focus on geographical areas that carry heightened ...

The Black Sea Fleet did not participate in the Russian Navy’s largest worldwide exercise in years that began in late July. The exercises involve 20,000 sailors and marines and 300 surface ships ...

While the Black Sea was never a “Russian Lake,” the presence of Kremlin naval power from the time of Peter the Great in the early 18 th century meant access to the Mediterranean, Daugherty said.

Third, the Black Sea compact should be incorporated within strategic planning documents, including the U.S. Black Sea Strategy, the EU’s Strategic Compass, and NATO’s Strategic Concept.

Over two years on, the consequences of the Russia-Ukraine War continue to reverberate throughout the Black Sea and Western Balkan regions. Russia’s latest push threatens to break Ukraine’s front lines ...

Geopolitical competition in the Black Sea is redefining regional order, changing its geopolitical identity, and shaping relations between states in the wider region. It has also hollowed out the once ...

Patrol boats such as the Sergey Kotov are part of Russia’s countermeasures against drone attacks, according to an article published last month by the Foreign Policy Research Institute, a U.S ...

Though Ukraine had shifted a large quantity of its food exports to rail in the meantime, soon ships were again setting out across the Black Sea bound for the ports of Constanta and Istanbul ...