Georgia-NATO relations and the United States of America

Abstract

The collapse of the international system of socialism and the emergence of new sovereign states in the post-Soviet space led to the correction of the political map of the world, the emergence of new states and global geostrategic changes, which ushered in a new era of international relations. New centers of power emerged, between which the struggle for spheres of influence intensified international contradictions. The South Caucasus, in a broader sense, the Black Sea-Caspian region, has become one of the most attractive spaces of global and regional superpower rivalry in the post-Cold War era, which reached its highest level of confrontation during the aforementioned events. 1. NATO became active in the region and intensively started military sailing, joint exercises and "flag show visits" in the Black Sea. 2. The European Union and NATO expanded in the direction of Bulgaria-Romania (2007), and the three states of the region - Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova - made a firm promise at the 2008 summit in Bucharest that they would one day become members of the alliance. These and other events made the Black Sea and the South Caucasus with it one of the key issues of global politics