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Article: U.S. perspectives on the Black Sea Region.(Legislation and Policy)
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- DISAM Journal
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- December 1, 2008
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[The following are excerpts from a speech prepared as the Keynote Address at the Woodrow Wilson Center Conference: Trans-Atlantic Perspectives on the Wider Black Sea Region, Washington, DC, June 10, 2008.]
The Black Sea region is growing in significance for the U.S. and transatlantic foreign policy community. The Black Sea lies at a strategic crossroads of geography and culture, where Russia intersects with the European Union, where energy producers of Eurasia connect to energy consumers of central and Western Europe, where Islamic traditions meet Christian traditions, and where Europe and the Middle East meet.
The Black Sea region is of considerable ...