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E-book The Suez Canal : Past Lessons and Future Challenges

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The Suez Canal is one of the most important artificial waterways in the world. Since its opening in November 1869, it had proven to be vital for both trade and military affairs and for great and regional actors. It is one of the most significant and sensitive chokepoints in the world, and the latest events in March 2021 served as a token to this fact, when a huge cargo tanker, the Ever Given got stranded on the Canal’s bank and blocked the waterway for six days, causing a “traffic jam” for hundreds of boats in the Mediterranean and Red seas. Nearly ten percent of global shipping passes in the Suez Canal,1 hence its blocking was a serious problem. Global prices of oil started rising and there was concern over delivery times of goods around the world. This was a reminder of how significant the Suez Canal is for international trade. This recent incident makes it relevant to present-day readers and most likely, future ones too. This book includes twelve studies on various aspects of the Suez Canal. Some of them were presented at a conference marking 150 years since the Suez Canal was opened that was organized by the Chaikin Chair for Geostrategy at the University of Haifa, Israel, in November 2019, while others are original contributions for this volume. The introduction briefly reviews the Suez Canal’s history, its significance for the superpowers, and finally overviews the structure of the book. Together, this collection of studies provides a broad view of this unique waterway. This volume addresses a few gaps in the literature—the first is a lack of a systematic examination of historical aspects of the devel-opment of the Canal in 150 years. The second is a careful study of the Canal’s geostrategic importance with emphasis on the significant role that superpowers and regional actors played throughout the years. The third is a combination of several disciplines that examine the centrality of the Suez Canal, and while some of these case studies have been addressed in previous scholarship, others have hardly been explored in the context of the Suez Canal, such as the anthropogenic activity. The fourth is a comprehensive survey of various factors surrounding one of the major shipping routes in the world.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

327 EIT t

Penerbit

Switzerland : Springer Nature., 2023

Deskripsi Fisik

280 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9783031156700

Klasifikasi

327

Tipe Isi

text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

Edisi

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Subjek

International Relations

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