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21
Sep
1 Agenda

9th International Balkan Forum

  • “Future of the Balkans Economy and Türkiye”
Türkiye, in terms of foreign trade, has increasingly become important both for the Balkan region and Europe, of which Türkiye is the fifth-largest exporter and the seventh-largest importer. Türkiye's foreign investment stock has increased from $7 billion to almost $40 billion. The percentage of the investments by Türkiye in the Balkan countries is around 5% of its overall foreign investments, while Romania is the largest in export and Greece is the largest in import. There has been an upward trend in Türkiye's investments in the region particularly Romania, Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Türkiye's volume of trade with the 12 Balkan countries has increased 23 billion dollars. The export volume of the Balkan countries is over 500 billion dollars.

Hence, the countries in the Region are required to keep the intellectual infrastructure regarding their future fit, and develop such policies that are appropriate to their interests. The 9th International Balkan Forum, which is organized under the main theme of the “Future of the Balkans Economy and Türkiye“ aims at contributing to this field.

Main Theme
Future of the Balkans Economy and Türkiye

Sub-Themes
Governance of the Economic Competition in the Balkans and Türkiye
EU and the Balkans New Economy Ecosystem after the Brexit
China, Belt and Road Project, the Balkans and Türkiye
New Economic Dynamics in the Balkans
Country Perspectives (Greece, Bulgaria, Türkiye, Albania etc.)

Contents

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Although during the Russian war in Ukraine, Belarus may be qualified as a Russian proxy, paradoxically, it can be as well perceived as a country struggling to save the rest of its independence from Moscow. ;
Comment

The physical elimination of Evgeni Prigozhin and the commandment of the Wagner Group opens the question of the further use of mercenaries, not only in Ukraine but in wider regional context. Designed as a non-conventional solution of ‘delicate’ tasks abroad, Wagner and its leader turned into a ‘delic...;
Comment

After the military coup, Niger's future hangs in uncertainty driven by terrorism, necessitating the presence of Western allies in the Sahel region.;
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After the end of the Cold War, relations between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Russian Federation (RF) have developed dynamically, albeit seemingly unevenly. The possibility of a genuine strategic partnership between Russia and China seemed to be downplayed.;
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Wars have been going on since the first humanity and gained new dimensions in the last century fed by different objects. As the aerospace and space race increased in the bipolar world, whose tensions increased during the Cold War period, it has become clear that the unpredictable works on rocket tec...;
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One of the economic and foreign policy objectives of Turkiye is the development of the Middle Corridor on the New Silk Road route and thus becoming a logistics base in the terrestrial East-West trade via Eurasia and being a center in the supply chain.;
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Turkish stance towards the ongoing Russian aggression in Ukraine is based on the national interest that implies avoiding risks and profiting from opportunities created by the conflict. The ultimate aim is to make its own place in the post-war international system more optimal than it was in the pre-...;
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From the understanding of security in the past, which focused only on military threats from the Cold War period, which prioritized the security of states; in addition to the state actor, there is a transformation towards a new security understanding that deepens and expands in the political, economi...;

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