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Black Sea-Caspian Region in Global Context: International Transport Corridors

Year 2025, Volume: 19 Issue: 37, 1 - 22, 15.12.2025
https://doi.org/10.19060/gav.1836488

Abstract

The paper focuses on the Black Sea-Caspian region analysis, its place and role in international relations and world politics. Particular attention is paid to international transport corridors (ITC), as well as factors of stability and security in the region. Since 2013, the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route (TITR) can significantly increase the volume of cargo transportation between Central Asia and Europe. It fits into the EU Global Gateway initiative, which, among other things, provides for investment in the development of logistics links with Asian countries as opposed to the Chinese Belt and Road. Although the Caspian Sea has no access to the World Ocean, it is an important center of transport and trade links, as well as a source of regional cooperation and, at the same time, intense competition. The authors conclude that the conflict in Ukraine and Western sanctions against Russia caused the countries of Central Asia, which generally remain neutral in the conflict, consider TITR as an alternative to the Northern Corridor and began to actively promote this trade corridor bypassing Russia. The Black Sea-Caspian region is an integral element of existing geopolitical configurations. Such territories can be as zones of interaction between socio-cultural and political flows, as well as an “apple of discord” between rival world actors. In the context of a new world order formation, favoring of one or another of the competing logistics projects can lead to a transformation of trade over a vast territory and a change in existing centers of power as well.

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Küresel Bağlamda Karadeniz-Hazar Bölgesi: Uluslararası Ulaşım Koridorları

Year 2025, Volume: 19 Issue: 37, 1 - 22, 15.12.2025
https://doi.org/10.19060/gav.1836488

Abstract

Bu çalışma, Karadeniz-Hazar bölgesinin analizi ile bu bölgenin uluslararası ilişkiler ve dünya siyasetindeki yeri ve rolüne odaklanmaktadır. Özellikle Uluslararası Ulaşım Koridorlarına (ITC) ve bölgedeki istikrar ile güvenlik faktörlerine özel önem verilmektedir. 2013 yılından bu yana Trans-Hazar Uluslararası Taşımacılık Güzergâhı (TITR), Orta Asya ile Avrupa arasındaki yük taşımacılığı hacmini önemli ölçüde artırma potansiyeline sahiptir. Bu güzergâh, Avrupa Birliği’nin Küresel Geçit (Global Gateway) girişimiyle uyumlu olup, Asya ülkeleriyle lojistik bağlantıların geliştirilmesine yönelik yatırımları içermekte ve Çin’in Kuşak ve Yol Girişimi’ne alternatif oluşturmayı hedeflemektedir. Hazar Denizi’nin açık denizlere doğrudan bağlantısı bulunmamakla birlikte, önemli bir ulaştırma ve ticaret merkezi olmasının yanı sıra bölgesel iş birliği için bir zemin ve aynı zamanda yoğun rekabetin yaşandığı bir alan niteliğindedir. Yazarlar, Ukrayna’daki savaş ve Batı’nın Rusya’ya uyguladığı yaptırımların ardından, genel olarak bu çatışmada tarafsız kalan Orta Asya ülkelerinin TITR’yi Kuzey Koridoruna alternatif olarak değerlendirmeye başladıklarını ve bu ticaret güzergâhını Rusya’yı baypas edecek şekilde aktif biçimde teşvik ettiklerini ileri sürmektedir. Karadeniz-Hazar bölgesi, mevcut jeopolitik yapıların ayrılmaz bir unsurudur. Bu tür bölgeler, sosyokültürel ve politik akımların kesişme noktası olabilecekleri gibi, rakip küresel aktörler arasında bir “çekişme alanı” (nifak elması) da olabilirler. Yeni bir dünya düzeninin şekillenmekte olduğu bu süreçte, rekabet halindeki lojistik projelerden birinin tercih edilmesi, geniş bir coğrafyada ticaret yapılarının dönüşmesine ve mevcut güç merkezlerinin değişimine yol açabilir.

References

  • ABBASOVA, Arzu, ALLISON, Olivia, “Can the Middle Corridor be Europe’s Middle Ground?”, The Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies, March 28, 2025, https://www.rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/can-middle-corridor-be-europes-middleground#:~: text=First%2C%20the%20main%20direction%20of,dominated%20by%20one%20geopolitical%20superpower
  • ABDULLAYEV, K.N., “Development of transport connection of Azerbaijan Republic with European Union’’s countries on the base of international transit transport projects “East-West” (TRACECA), “North-South” and “South-West”, Vestnik Rostovskogo gosudarstvennogo ekonomicheskogo universiteta (RINKh). Volume: 3, Issue: 63, 2018, p. 12-21.
  • AGUIAR, Paulo, “The Middle Corridor: A Route Born of the New Eurasian Geopolitics”, Geopolitical Monitor, 2025, https://www.geopoliticalmonitor.com/the-middle-corridor-a-route-born-of-thenew-eurasian-geopolitics/
  • AKCAY, Nurettin, CHANGGANG, Guo, “Türkiye’s Middle Corridor and China’s BRI: Identification and Assessment”, Insight Turkey, Volume: 25, Issue: 1, 2023, p. 63-74.
  • AKINFIEVA, Arina Eduardovna, “Transkaspiiskii mezhdunarodnyi transportnyi marshrut: sostoianie, perspektivy, konkurentsiia s rossiiskimi magistraliami”, Rossiiskii institut strategicheskikh issledovanii (RISI), http://riss.ru/analitycs/26406/
  • ASLANLI, Araz SERIFLI, Yunis, “Zengezur koridoru, Pekin-Londra hattı ve Türkiye’nin artan önemi”, Anadolu Ajansı, May 26, 2021, https://www.aa.com.tr/tr/analiz/zengezur-koridoru-pekin-londrahatti-ve-turkiye-nin-artan-onemi/2254505
  • Azerbaijan reaffirms support to dev’t of Caspian Sea – Black Sea Int’l Transport Route”, Trend News Agency, March 4, 2019, https://en.trend.az/azerbaijan/politics/3028256.html
  • BAZAROV, V.B., ATANOV, A.A., “Evraziiskie tsentral-noaziatskie logisticheskie proekty XXI stoletiia”, Vlast, Issue: 8, 2018, p. 137-142
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Primary Language English
Subjects International Economics (Other), Politics in International Relations
Journal Section Research Article
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Elena Savicheva 0000-0001-8617-3508

Erman Tatlıoğlu 0000-0001-9745-2043

Submission Date July 9, 2025
Acceptance Date November 5, 2025
Early Pub Date December 8, 2025
Publication Date December 15, 2025
Published in Issue Year 2025 Volume: 19 Issue: 37

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APA Savicheva, E., & Tatlıoğlu, E. (2025). Black Sea-Caspian Region in Global Context: International Transport Corridors. Gazi Akademik Bakış, 19(37), 1-22. https://doi.org/10.19060/gav.1836488
AMA Savicheva E, Tatlıoğlu E. Black Sea-Caspian Region in Global Context: International Transport Corridors. Gazi Akademik Bakış. December 2025;19(37):1-22. doi:10.19060/gav.1836488
Chicago Savicheva, Elena, and Erman Tatlıoğlu. “Black Sea-Caspian Region in Global Context: International Transport Corridors”. Gazi Akademik Bakış 19, no. 37 (December 2025): 1-22. https://doi.org/10.19060/gav.1836488.
EndNote Savicheva E, Tatlıoğlu E (December 1, 2025) Black Sea-Caspian Region in Global Context: International Transport Corridors. Gazi Akademik Bakış 19 37 1–22.
IEEE E. Savicheva and E. Tatlıoğlu, “Black Sea-Caspian Region in Global Context: International Transport Corridors”, Gazi Akademik Bakış, vol. 19, no. 37, pp. 1–22, 2025, doi: 10.19060/gav.1836488.
ISNAD Savicheva, Elena - Tatlıoğlu, Erman. “Black Sea-Caspian Region in Global Context: International Transport Corridors”. Gazi Akademik Bakış 19/37 (December2025), 1-22. https://doi.org/10.19060/gav.1836488.
JAMA Savicheva E, Tatlıoğlu E. Black Sea-Caspian Region in Global Context: International Transport Corridors. Gazi Akademik Bakış. 2025;19:1–22.
MLA Savicheva, Elena and Erman Tatlıoğlu. “Black Sea-Caspian Region in Global Context: International Transport Corridors”. Gazi Akademik Bakış, vol. 19, no. 37, 2025, pp. 1-22, doi:10.19060/gav.1836488.
Vancouver Savicheva E, Tatlıoğlu E. Black Sea-Caspian Region in Global Context: International Transport Corridors. Gazi Akademik Bakış. 2025;19(37):1-22.