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Since 2014 – if not 2008 – Russia has destabilised the Black Sea region, gradually turning it into a zone of anarchy. The Kremlin’s renewed offensive against Ukraine in February 2022 led to widespread military action, closing the Black Sea off to civilian traffic. This map visualises the geopolitics of the Black Sea region.
This map was updated on 29th March 2022.
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James Rogers is Co-president and Director of Research at the Council on Geostrategy, where he leads the organisation’s intellectual approach and research projects. He is also Editor of Britain’s World, the Council on Geostrategy’s online magazine. His areas of expertise cover the United Kingdom’s international posture, connections between the Euro-Atlantic and Indo-Pacific theatres, nuclear strategy, and national power analysis.
He is also a Fellow of the Durham Institute of Research, Development and Invention (DIRDI) and a Research Fellow at the Strategy, Statecraft and Technology Centre (SST-CCW) at the University of Oxford. Previously, he held positions at the Henry Jackson Society, the Baltic Defence College, RAND Europe, and the European Union Institute for Security Studies.
His commentary has been carried in the global media and he has been invited to give oral evidence at the Foreign Affairs, Defence, European Affairs, and International Development committees in the Houses of Parliament. His research has been cited and endorsed by a former British prime minister and a former British foreign secretary, and he has worked on research projects for the British Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, and the British and French ministries of defence.
He holds an MPhil in Contemporary European Studies from the University of Cambridge and an award-winning BSc Econ (Hons) in International Politics and Strategic Studies from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
