Black Sea and Eastern Mediterranean Review

"The global (ex) "periphery" re-claiming its historical significance: Africa, South America and Eastern Mediterranean architecture under transformation"

(31 October/1 November 2026 - Thessaloniki)

The Black Sea and Eastern Mediterranean Review (BSEMR) and its constituent institutions, the Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Black Sea and Mediterranean Studies in Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (ILABSEM AUTh) and the School of Law in the University of Nicosia issue a call for abstracts for participation in an international conference. The conference is co-organized by the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES).

This conference aims to explore the rise in international significance of three major international regions: Africa, South America and the Eastern Mediterranean. These regions increasingly occupy critical spaces of political, legal, economic, and socio-technological roles, through transformations and repositioning within the contemporary global order. Long framed as “peripheries” in dominant international narratives, these sets of countries and regions are, currently, increasingly reclaiming historical, strategic, and normative importance amid shifting alliances and reshuffling power structures, renewed geopolitical tensions, post- and neo-colonial dynamics, including rapid technological change.

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Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Editorial Note

Editorial Note by the Editor-in-Chief: Win or Perish – Perish you Will Despite Winning

Research Articles

Cybersecurity and International Law: Charting Stability in the Black Sea–Eastern Mediterranean Region

Unequal Partners? Rethinking Burden Sharing in a Future European Defence Union

Narratives of Maritime Sovereignty: The Mavi Vatan Doctrine

Book Review

Dynamics of the Ukraine War: Diplomatic Challenges and Geopolitical Uncertainties