The Assessment of Environmental Terrorism in The Context of “Security”: Lesson from Eastern Black Sea Region

Abstract

The last quarter of the 20th century corresponds to ones when the cross-border effects of local and regional ecological problems activated to be perceived as a global threat. Due to the fact that ecological problems include cross-border effects as well as interdependence, complexity, and uncertainty, the formation of a new considerate of security spreading from the local to the global (environmental security) has become necessary. It is difficult to create rational inferences in associating resource scarcity or abundance with security without scrutinizing the concepts of "environment" and "security" in an integrated manner. On the other hand, environmental terror and terrorism are deliberated among the security issues discussed in contemporary academic and political debate as in the past. In this context, there is a need for mixture studies that make it possible to comprehensively evaluate the environmental scopes of terror and terrorism, which also constitute the crucial point of security studies. Studies on this subject are extremely unsatisfactory in terms of revealing the intersection areas of environmental terrorism and security issues. In practical, the measures taken against environmental terrorism require an effective political and legal formulation with a new outlook. In this context, the main purpose of the study is to scrutinize the projections of environmental terrorism in terms of security in the "Eastern Black Sea Region". The study accomplishes this aim in two different phases. In the first stage, it is realized by clarifying the relationship of the environment with security and terrorism phenomena. In the second stage, there are evaluations about where and how environmental terrorism will be positioned within the considerate of security. The results of the study demonstrate that the environmental essentials, which are easy to access and cost-effective, have the potential to turn into a tool or target that can create effective and lasting results, and that the considerate of security has gained a new dimension from "human security" to "ecological security", where the considerate of security is tied in the last order.