.... eastern Mediterranean southern Europe rimland Turkey and energy Copyright 2015 by Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2015 Petros Vamvakas is associate professor of political science at Emmanuel College, Boston. Global Stability and the Geopolitical Vortex of the Eastern Mediterranean...

... observed, it is the EU that must do the heavy lifting in seeking to bring the northern and southern rimlands into constructive collaboration: Outside the narrow security realm, the EU’s Barcelona Process has emerged as the leading instrument...

... and more by a conflict and trading system that spans the whole navigable southern rimland of the Eurasian supercontinent, with ten- tacles reaching north into Central Asia. The Indian Ocean thus emerges as the global hydrocarbon interstate linking the oil and gas fields of the Persian Gulf...