Power and Stability Policies in the Black Sea-Caspian Region in the Context of Max Weber’s Authority Approach

Abstract

Weber defined the authority that gave legitimacy to power based on the concept of sovereignty and tried to understand the level of awareness of the individual’s social actions. Together with the phenomenon of power, who played an active role in the strategic platform formed at the same time the hegemony of the authority. The playmakers, who are the active subjects of International Relations, produce proactive-structural policies considering the power balances. In this context, the Black Sea and the Caspian Basin are not only affected by energy, politics and power policies on geopolitical axes but also affect these policies. Turkey is strengthening its central position taking an active role in the Black Sea and the Caspian Basin energy and stability policies for the balance of power in the Eurasian axis. In this study, on the scale of the Black Sea and the Caspian Basin; in terms of Turkey, regional and global actors in energy policies, geopolitics and the balance of power will be examined.