Abstract
Autore:
Di Casola Maria Antonia
Titolo:
"Larga la storia. Stretta la via. Bosforo e Dardanelli nella politica estera turca di “profondità strategica”"
With direct affect on Turkey and Russia and of significance in maintaining the relationship (balance of power) between the countries of the Mediterranean, the straits of the Bosporus and the Dardanelles have over time remained synonymous of the age-old Eastern Issue. Their control has been subject to a number of treaties and conventions which have marked the alternating fortune of the great powers. The last of these being the Montreux Convention of 1936, still in force today, which remains unchanged in substance despite repeated attempts - mainly Soviet - to change its regulation following the Second World War and coinciding the Conventions’ apparent decline in the subsequent era of nuclear weapons and intercontinental missiles. On the contrary, this ‘synthesis’ of rules governing the Straits has recently re-emerged and used by Turkish foreign policy of ‘strategic depth’, as a barrier to the encroachment of non-regional realities, such as the arrival of American ships in the clash between Russia and Georgia in 2008, when the appliance of the Montreux Convention in effect allowed more space for the use of ‘soft power’ diplomacy.
