Geographic Realities in the Middle East and North Africa (eBook, ePUB)

State, Oil and Agriculture
Redaktion: Joffé, George; Schofield, Richard

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Celebrating the work of Keith McLachlan, a well-known and much-admired geographer of the Middle East and North Africa, this book combines three interrelated topics that define the region. The Middle East has been integral to the growth of the global oil industry.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429681622
• Artikelnr.: 60050158

Autorenporträt

George Joffé, former deputy director at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA) and former Lecturer in the international relations of the Middle East and North Africa at POLIS, University of Cambridge. In addition to publishing co-authored and edited books, he has published articles in the Journal of North African Studies and book chapters in Islamist radicalisation in North Africa (2011) and Civil Resistance in the Arab Spring (ed. Roberts et al. 2016) amongst others. Richard Schofield, Reader in geography at King's College, University of London, is a specialist in archival sources for the study of boundary and territorial disputes, particularly of the Arabian Peninsula and Persian Gulf. His publications include Territorial Foundations of the Gulf States (1994) and articles in various journals like Mediterranean Politics and Geopolitics.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Geographic Realities in the Middle East and North Africa: State, Oil and
Agriculture Part I: Boundaries and the State 2. Back to 1975 and All That:
Linking the Technicalities and Underlying Dynamics of Iraq's Border
Disputes at the Head of the Persian Gulf 3. A Border that has Defied
Unification 4. A Geopolitical Perspective of Boundary Change and Buffer
Function in Jordan, 1920-1994 5. Can Insecure States Achieve Secure
Borders? The Continuing Search for Security in the Evolution of Modern
South Asia's States 6. Boundary Delimitation: The Role of History Part II:
Oil and Iran 7. The Geopolitics of Energy Security: a Brief History 8. A
Failure of Imagination? Britain, 'The Narrative of Liberalisation' and the
Fall of the Shah 9. The International Oil Companies and Iran: A Classic
Love-Hate Relationship Part III: Agriculture and Water 10. Agriculture in
MENA Rentier Economies: Coping with Extremely Unstable Revenues and the
Arrival of Revolutionary Regimes in Libya and Iran 11. Water and
Agriculture in Iraq's Euphrates Valley: The Challenges 12. An Afghan
Shepherd's Life