title: Ukrainian foreign policy expertise and Russia’s military security in the Black Sea region
abstract: This article is the first attempt in political science to determine the specifics of potential influence on Russia’s military security that may be exerted by the existing views on Russia and on the Black Sea region in the geopolitical worldview of the experts from the main Ukrainian think-tanks engaged in Russian and Black Sea studies. Using synthetic methodology based on certain principles and provisions of critical geopolitics, the theory of epistemic communities by Peter Haas, and securitizat
journal: Historia provinciae – the journal of regional history(rus )