The Suez Canal: Past Lessons and Future Challenges

ISBN-13: 9783031156694 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 264 str.

Carmela Lutmar; Ziv Rubinovitz

Opis

This open access book seeks to provide a survey of historical, geopolitical, economic, and environmental developments in the last 150 years and to highlight future challenges it faces as it pertains to the areas mentioned earlier. It argues that the centrality of the canal—geo-strategically and otherwise—requires a shift in scholarly focus to study the various aspects from an interdisciplinary perspective. This book addresses several gaps in the literature—the first being a lack of a systematic examination of historical aspects in the development of the canal in 150 years. The second is a careful study of the canal’s geostrategic importance. The third is a combination of several disciplines that examine the centrality of the Suez Canal.

Spis treści

​Section I. Politics, Geopolitics, and Geostrategy

1. The Suez Canal: Forthcoming Strategic and Geopolitical Challenges (Shal Chorev)

2. China and the Suez Canal: Politics, Economy, and Logistics (Ehud Gonen)

3. The Butterfly Effect: The Influence of the Nixon Administration's Preoccupation with Vietnam on Sadat's February 1971 Proposal to Reopen the Suez Canal (Yehuda Blanga)

Section II. Energy Aspects

4. Suez and the United States: Oil, Lifelines, and "All of Mankind" in the Cold War (Christopher R. W. Dietrich)

5. The Global Oil Market and the Status of the Suez Canal (Yossi Mann)

Section III. Legal Aspects

6. Freedom of Navigation in the Suez Canal and the Cannels: Law of the Sea (Benny Spanier)

7. International Law and Freedom of Navigation through the Suez Canal (Robbie Sabel)

8. Israel's Freedom of Passage in the Suez Canal, 1957-1967 (Eitan Barak)

Section IV. Environmental and Human Impacts

9. The Impact of the Suez Canal on Egypt's Geography and Economy, 1867-2019 (150 years since its opening) (Arnon Soffer)

10. A Sea, a Canal, a Disaster: The Suez Canal and the Transformation of the Mediterranean Biota (Bella S. Galil)

11. Increased Anthropogenic Activity in the Mediterranean since the Opening of the Suez Canal (Semion Polinov)

12. Standing of the Mega-Ship Ever Given in the Suez Canal: Causes, Consequences, and Lessons to be Learned (Aleksander Gerson)

O autorze

Carmela Lutmar is Senior Lecturer in the Division of International Relations in the School of Political Sciences at the University of Haifa, Israel, and Adjunct Lecturer at New York University, USA. Her research interests include leadership, regime changes, mediation in civil wars, and postwar governance in war torn societies.

Ziv Rubinovitz is Research Fellow at the Chaikin Chair for Geostrategy at the University of Haifa, Israel, and Research Coordinator of the Maritime Policy and Strategy Research Center, the Chaikin Chair for Geostrategy, the Ezri Center for Iran and Gulf States Research, and the Wydra Division of Shipping and Ports at the University of Haifa. His research interests include international security, geopolitics, US foreign policy, Israeli foreign policy, and US-Israel relations.

Blurb

“This book should be at the top of all reading lists as maritime commerce, global supply chains, and the Suez Canal will continue to profoundly affect our daily lives.”

—Admiral Gary Roughead, U.S. Navy (Retired), Former U.S. Navy Chief of Naval Operations

 

“The authors have filled a gap in the academic literature with this superb edited volume. Maritime trade is changing, the importance of sea resources is growing, and power rivalries are increasingly being expressed at sea.”

 —Bruno Tertrais, Deputy Director, Fondation pour la recherche stratégique, France

 

This open access book provides an interdisciplinary analysis of the Suez Canal after 150 years of operation, studying it from various perspectives: political and geopolitical, energy, legal, and environmental and human impact. The book addresses several gaps in the scholarly literature, including a much-needed geostrategic analysis of the Canal in the volatile Middle East amid structural changes in the international system, and topics that are usually less emphasized in the context of the Suez Canal, such as anthropogenic activity.

Carmela Lutmar is Senior Lecturer in the Division of International Relations in the School of Political Sciences at the University of Haifa, Israel, and Adjunct Lecturer at New York University, USA.

Ziv Rubinovitz is Research Fellow and Academic Coordinator at the Chaikin Chair for Geostrategy, Research Coordinator of the Maritime Policy and Strategy Research Center, the Ezri Center for Iran and Gulf States Research, and the Wydra Division of Shipping and Ports at the University of Haifa, Israel.