NATO's energy security approach and Eurasia

The issue of sharing, where hydrocarbon energy resources are available at limited levels and in limited geographies in the world, but in which there have been struggles pushing the limits regarding their use, and where these struggles have been experienced extensively in the last two hundred years of human history, has become one of the main determinants of international relations. Countries with high levels of prosperity have somehow become actors in energy sharing, regardless of whether they are resource rich or not. These actors can act individually or with their organizational identities. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has acquired a new mission for itself by developing a sense of security in the field of energy after the Cold War. This mission has been tried to be implemented in the context of establishing energy security in many geographies. Structural organizations, military operations and political-diplomatic initiatives to ensure energy security are among these. Although these initiatives of NATO had similar purposes in some geographies, they generally did not produce the same results. In this study, the factors affecting energy security have been tried to be explained by entering into their conceptual dimension. In this context, it is aimed to contribute to the literature by discussing NATO's energy security approaches, force use options in the north of the Black Seas and Caspian and the last Russia-Ukraine War. Keywords: Energy Security, NATO, Russia, Black Sea, Caspian