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

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