Alliance Problems in the Eastern Mediterranean
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1987 |
ISBN-10 | : OCLC:1336398762 |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1987 |
ISBN-10 | : OCLC:1336398762 |
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Author | : Thrassy Marketos |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2022-04-13 |
ISBN-10 | : 9783030975937 |
ISBN-13 | : 3030975932 |
Rating | : 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
This book examines the geostrategic alliances in the Eastern Mediterranean and MENA regions. It analyzes how these alliances transcend stereotyped political and cultural prototypes throughout western Eurasia as the outcome of shifting regional power balances. The authors explain how this development has its foundation mostly in the United States' ‘Pivot to Asia’ policy, resulting in a lower priority ranking of the Middle East for Washington, but also in the emergence of China’s economic incursion on the wider region. The book looks into and presents different reasons for this paradigm shift: First and foremost, the historical ambitions and conflicting assertions of sovereignty in the region. Then, competition over control of hydrocarbons reserves and pipeline politics, civil wars, and political chaos in certain littoral states. US retrenchment and Russia’s naval base expansion in Syria, as well as Turkish expansion in Libya, NATO allies divisions and, not to reckon with, waves of migration and refugees. Yet some internal and external factors could lead to some changes in these trends, including the need to engage in energy transitions due to climate change consequences in the region. Therefore, this book is a must-read for scholars, students, policy-makers, and practitioners interested in a better understanding of the political development in the Eastern Mediterranean and MENA regions, as well as of International Relations in general.
Author | : Gareth Mark Winrow |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 2002-05-03 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781135577162 |
ISBN-13 | : 1135577161 |
Rating | : 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
The first examination of the importance of NATO's Mediterranean Initiative for the security and stability of the Euro-Mediterranean area, this book discusses the challenges, risks, and possible threats to NATO member states which may stem from the southern and eastern Mediterranean.
Author | : Spyridon N. Litsas |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2016-03-09 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781317034780 |
ISBN-13 | : 1317034783 |
Rating | : 4/5 (80 Downloads) |
The wider region of the Eastern Mediterranean is in transition. What is being evinced is a situation of continuous volatility, centering on developments such as the ’Arab Spring,’ the Greek sovereign debt crisis, Islamic terrorism, the continuation of deadlock over the Cypriot and Palestinian Issues, significant energy finds in the Levantine Basin, concerns over nuclear proliferation and, more recently, the Syrian Civil War. At a systemic level, the move towards a regional multipolar reality has also contributed to volatility by creating a crescendo of antagonisms between all the major international actors who continuously strive for more influence, power and prestige. This collective project by leading experts represents a unique combination of International Theory and International Politics analysis that deals exclusively with the wider Eastern Mediterranean. It scrutinizes in a multidimensional manner the current geostrategic and geopolitical conditions that include the latest domestic socio-political events, as well as the active involvement of the Great Powers in the region. This book should be of interest to academics, decision-makers and a general reading public focusing on a significant and influential region in flux.
Author | : Ian O. Lesser |
Publisher | : RAND Corporation |
Total Pages | : 90 |
Release | : 2000 |
ISBN-10 | : UOM:39015049481818 |
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Rating | : 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
The security environment facing the United States and NATO in Europe is changing in fundamental ways, including a steady growth of security challenges emanating from Europe's southern periphery--around the Mediterranean and beyond. This study explores this phenomenon, with special attention to transregional risks, Turkey's Alliance role and need for redefinition, the risk of a Greek-Turkish conflict, the Mediterranean dimension of NATO adaptation, and what these issues might mean for U.S. and NATO strategy. The author finds that Spain, Italy, and Turkey will be key to supporting expeditionary operations in the south; military-to-military ties will require new efforts; a portfolio approach to access arrangements can provide a hedge against uncertainties about coalition behavior in crises; bilateral air power activities in the south should have increased NATO content; and Greek-Turkish risk reduction is an imperative. Areas for future research include lessons of Kosovo for basing and access, the role of air power based in Turkey, and potential USAF contributions to Greek-Turkish risk reduction.
Author | : Dionysios Chourchoulis |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2014-12-18 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780739193068 |
ISBN-13 | : 0739193066 |
Rating | : 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
In 1951-52, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization established the Southern Flank, a strategy for the defense of the eastern Mediterranean in the Cold War involving Italy, Greece, and Turkey. Among its many aims, the Southern Flank sought to mobilize these countries as allies and integrate them into the Western defense system. Throughout the 1950s, the alliance developed the Southern Flank and in 1959 it was finally stabilized as fractious Greek-Turkish relations were improved by the temporary settlement over Cyprus. The Southern Flank of NATO, 1951–1959: Military Strategy or Political Stabilization examines, among other things, the initial negotiations of 1951-52, the Southern Flank’s structure and function and relative value in NATO’s overall policy, and the alliance’s response to the challenges in the eastern Mediterranean in the early Cold War. It explores not only the military aspects of the Southern Flank, but also the more controversial political aspects: the admission of Greece and Turkey to NATO, the short-lived military cooperation between these states and Yugoslavia during 1953-55 and the effects of the deterioration in Greek-Turkish relations from 1955 due to Cyprus. It also focuses on the part played by other major members of the alliance, principally the United States and Britain, in Southern Flank politics and strategy. Thus, it considers how the United States and the U.K. viewed the power balance between the three Southern Flank members and how the Americans sought to influence affairs through financial, military and technical assistance, including the construction of U.S. bases in Italy, Greece, and Turkey. The book also assesses the threat posed to the Southern Flank at various points by rising tensions in the Middle East. More generally, the book illuminates the complexities of intra-alliance dynamics in a region full of Cold War tensions. However, in its Middle Eastern/Eastern Mediterranean neighborhood, it was not only the Cold War that provided tensions, since the Arab-Israeli dispute and the tensions of decolonization further complicated the picture. Thus, the study of the Southern Flank is a test case of a Cold War theater which was subjected to additional historical pressures, creating a nexus of problems which the Western Alliance needed to address within its effort to respond to the various challenges of the Cold War.
Author | : James Brown |
Publisher | : Brassey's |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1991 |
ISBN-10 | : UOM:39015018876964 |
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Rating | : 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Brown (political science, Southern Methodist U.) explores the uneasy relations between the two NATO members holding the eastern frontier of the alliance. He analyzes the internal politics of the two countries, how policy is formulated, the role of the military, their strategic geography, and their p
Author | : Jean-Loup Samaan |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 60 |
Release | : 2016-09-04 |
ISBN-10 | : 153747944X |
ISBN-13 | : 9781537479446 |
Rating | : 4/5 (4X Downloads) |
"The collapse of Israel-Turkey relations over the last decade has led to a reshuffling of the power plays in the East Mediterranean region. Following the dismantlement of the Ankara-Jerusalem axis, Greece has entered the game by becoming the new ally of Israel in the area. As a result, the new strategic triangle that emerges in the region has implications at both the security and economic levels. Its future will shape not only the regional security system but also the prosperity of the area, for instance by defining the governance of energy discoveries. Therefore, it will have direct implications for the U.S. security interests"--Publisher's web site.
Author | : Dionysios K. Chourchoulis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015 |
ISBN-10 | : 0739193058 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780739193051 |
Rating | : 4/5 (58 Downloads) |
This book is the first comprehensive discussion of the aims, capabilities, politics, and internal problems of NATO's Southern Flank in its formative stage of the 1950s.
Author | : May Darwich |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 2019-09-26 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781108493628 |
ISBN-13 | : 1108493629 |
Rating | : 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Examines Saudi and Syrian policies during three pivotal wars, to understand how identity and power influence state behaviour in the Middle East.