The Black Sea region is increasingly becoming a priority onthe international agenda since the collapse of Soviet Union.Almost twenty years ago, it did not even appeared on manypolitical maps.1It was considered a borderline between NATOand its member in the region Turkey and the Warsaw Pact.However, in the contemporary international politics, Black Sea isone of the most salient regions where balance of power haschanged and new geopolitical discourses emerged. Many importantfactors contributed to this development. First of all, especially inthe last ten years, the Black Sea as a regional project representsnew security and cooperation patterns in the new internationalsystem. New security patterns, such as energy and environment,are now in the gaining more importance. Beside these systemictransformations, political conditions in the Black Sea region havealso changed. While there were only two players in the regionbefore the collapse of the Soviet Union, Today, there are fivelittoral states.