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The Role of Energy and Railway Traffic Corridors in Changing the Geopolitical Position of Croatia: A Review of Developments and Perspectives

Traffic corridors can be and usually are a prime factor of fulfilling certain geopolitical goals, whether they are used to expand presence, inhabit certain territories, increase goods exchange or are used as military transport corridors, or all of the above at the same time. Geopolitical position is a complex category and represents a set of geopolitical features of a certain political-territorial unit, in most cases the state. The geopolitical position is not permanent and unchanging, but is a changing category that changes with respect to changes in the state and its environment that affect the geopolitical position of the state. By studying the role of the traffic corridors passing through Croatia and the territories of the neighbouring countries, we have tried to explore the perspectives of improving Croatia’s geopolitical position as a country that is located at the fringes of three large European regions – Central Europe, Southern Europe and South-eastern Europe. The role of European traffic corridors and the further development of infrastructure on these corridors could determine the future importance not only of these corridors but a geopolitical and geo-economic position of Croatia in the future decades.

geopolitical position ; traffic corridors ; Croatia ; Western Balkans ; infrastructure

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