Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Journal of Balkan and Black Sea Studies, cilt.6, sa.10, ss.61-89, 2023 (Hakemli Dergi)
In this study, firstly, the policies followed by Russia in the Caucasus region
with the end of the Cold War period and the problems created by these
policies in the Soviet geography will be discussed. In this context, the steps
taken by Georgia, Ukraine and other countries established in this geography
after the USSR, which came to the agenda with NATO and EU membership
issues, the price they paid, and the fields of cooperation between NATO and
the countries in the region will be emphasized. Then, it will be focused on
how NATO’s enlargement policies were met in the Western world, Turkey,
and the post-Soviet geography, what kind of regional and global effects of
enlargement, and the problems that enlargement policies created in the
fields of energy security, food, security, terrorism, economy and deterrence.
The economic responsibilities that enlargement brings to NATO and the
effects of the increase in the number of NATO member states in the future
on NATO’s future strength and deterrence will also be evaluated. In
particular, the problem of mercenaries, which started to come to the fore
again with the Russian-Ukrainian war, the claims that jihadist organizations
started to settle in the Caucasus, and the areas in which the military and
logistic support provided by NATO to Ukraine during the war were limited
will be discussed. Considering that enlargement policies cause regional
instability and wars, the policies followed by NATO in the Soviet geography
in the post-Soviet period and the regional and global effects of these policies
will be emphasized