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: Two ongoing wars in the BSEM region

Research Articles

The Foreign Policy Implications of Erdoganism

‘Uti possidetis’ and the Armed Conflict in Ukraine

The Role of Energy in the Strengthening of Turkey-Russia Relations, 2016-2021

Commentaries on Current Affairs

Gaza vs Libya: Mission Impossible for Norway’s Commitment to International Law

Resisting the ‘New World Order’ through the Lens of the Zionist-Palestinian Conflict

Book Review

The New Eastern Mediterranean Transformed: Emerging Issues and New Actors

Calls

Digital Media, Communication and Journalism English-taught master’s degree program in AUTh

MA International Relations and Eastern Mediterranean Studies, University of Nicosia

MA in Black Sea and Eastern Mediterranean Studies: Culture and International Relations, International Hellenic University