The present volume brings together some of the contributions presented at the second edition of the annual EUXGLOB international conference held in Cluj-Napoca on May 5-6, 2022. The topic of this year’s conference, which is already becoming a prestigious academic tradition, was The EU and NATO Approaches to the Black Sea Region and the event was held against the background of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which had begun only two months earlier. Discussions about the implications of this war took centre stage during the debates and highlighted the precarious security environment of the Black Sea region and the vulnerabilities it faces during these difficult and uncertain times.

The conference was organised by the EUXGLOB Centre of the Faculty of European Studies, Babeș-Bolyai University as a two-day hybrid event, bringing together 70 academics, researchers, policymakers and specialists who presented their contributions across 11 panels. The conference concluded with a high-level roundtable debate organised jointly with the Initiative for European Democratic Culture think tank on the topic of The European and Global Order after the Russian Invasion of Ukraine.