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Record Nr.

UNINA9910966923003321

Autore

Ehteshami Anoushiravan

Titolo

The international politics of the Red Sea / / Anoushiravan Ehteshami and Emma C. Murphy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-136-67073-4

1-283-44235-3

9786613442352

0-203-80875-4

1-136-67074-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Collana

Durham modern Middle East and Islamic world series ; ; 21

Altri autori (Persone)

MurphyEmma

Disciplina

327.09182/4

Soggetti

Regionalism - Red Sea Region

Regionalism (International organization)

Red Sea Region Politics and government

Red Sea Region Foreign relations

Red Sea Region Foreign economic relations

Red Sea Region Strategic aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Weakness and instability: national politics and their sub-regional implications -- International politics of the Red Sea in the cold war era -- Red Sea sub-regional developments in the post-cold war era -- Security, militarisation and arms flows -- Land boundaries, maritime borders and territorial issues -- The economics of the Red Sea: trade, migration and capital flows -- Red Sea networks: regional and international transport -- Regionalising the Red Sea.

Sommario/riassunto

This pioneering book is the first comprehensive study of the Red Sea as a sub-region of the international system in its own right. Examining the international politics of the Red Sea region from the Cold War to the present day, it argues that the Red Sea area demonstrates the characteristics of a sub-regional system, given its increasing economic and social interdependence, greater regional integration, and flows of



resources across it. It details how stronger regional powers - Egypt, Israel and Saudi Arabia - which co-habit the sub-region with much weaker, vulnerable and fragile states, ar