Black Sea and Eastern Mediterranean Review

The Black Sea and Eastern Mediterranean Review (BSEMR), together with the University of Nicosia and ILABSEM at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, in collaboration with Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES), invites participants to its 2025 Autumn Conference: “The International Order in Question: Regional Security and Prosperity in Times of Global Flux and Disarray.”

The conference explores pressing regional and global challenges, including shifting power dynamics, cyber threats, protectionism, strong-arm politics, and Europe’s defense strategies, bringing together scholars, policymakers, and practitioners to reflect on governance, stability, and security in turbulent times.

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Full Issue

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Editorial Note

Message by the Editorial Committee

Research Articles

A war beyond the war: the use of propaganda in social media in the 2022 Russo-Ukrainian conflict

The Everyday Construction of Regional Security: A Comparative Study of Small States’ (in)Security in the Baltic Sea and the Eastern Mediterranean

The Turkish-Russian Conflictual Cooperation Through the Perspective of ‘Kriter’ Magazine

Policy Paper

Three counter-intuitives on resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Book Review

Turkish Foreign Policy: The Lausanne Syndrome in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East