Transnational Politics in the Black Sea Rim : Unknotting Religions, States, and Minorities

在这项研究中，前苏联集团和土耳其的专家合作分析了冷战后出现的一个新的宏观区域--黑海沿岸。环黑海地区没有民族国家的传统，跨国行为体在那里发挥着重要作用。在各种跨国行为者中，这项研究侧重于宗教组织（东正教，伊斯兰教和反迦克墩基督教）和跨境少数民族，如瓦拉几人，库尔德人，明格里亚人和亚美尼亚人，并挑战了传统的以国家为中心的理解这一地区。

In this study, specialists in the former Soviet Bloc and Turkey cooperated to analyze the Black Sea Rims, a new macro-region having emerged after the Cold War. The Black Sea Rims do not have the tradition of nation state, and transnational actors play important roles there. Among various transnational actors this study focused on religious organizations (Orthodoxy, Islam, and anti-Chalcedon Christianity) and trans-border minorities, such as Vlachs, Kurds, Mingrelians, and Armenians, and challenged the traditional state-centered understanding of this region.