Geostrategic alliances in the Eastern Mediterranean and MENA : a universal paradigm shift / Thrassy Marketos, Nicolas Mazzucchi, Thomas A. Alexopoulos.
Marketos, Thrassy N., author.; Mazzucchi, Nicolas, author.; Alexopoulos, Thomas A. author.
2022
HD9502.M582
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Title
Geostrategic alliances in the Eastern Mediterranean and MENA : a universal paradigm shift / Thrassy Marketos, Nicolas Mazzucchi, Thomas A. Alexopoulos.
Author
Marketos, Thrassy N., author.
ISBN
9783030975937 (electronic bk.)
3030975932 (electronic bk.)
9783030975920 (print)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97593-7
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2022.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xvii, 123 pages) : color illustrations.
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-97593-7 doi
Call Number
HD9502.M582
Dewey Decimal Classification
333.7909182/2
Summary
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.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed April 20, 2022).
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Mazzucchi, Nicolas, author.
Alexopoulos, Thomas A. author.
Series
SpringerBriefs in international relations, 2731-3360
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Intro
Acknowledgments
Contents
About the Authors
List of Figures
List of Tables
Chapter 1: Introduction
Part I: Times of Change: The Energy Perspective of Things
Chapter 2: Energy and the International System
References
Chapter 3: The Economics of Energy: Restrictions Not to Be Overtaken
References
Chapter 4: The Eastern Mediterranean and MENA Regions: Revisionist Areas in the International System?
References
Chapter 5: The Aftermath of the New Energy Mandate
References

Part II: Energy Dynamics and Transitions in MENA and Eastern Mediterranean: From Hydrocarbons to Electricity
Chapter 6: Energy Resources in Eastern Mediterranean and MENA
6.1 The Situation at the Eve of 21st Century
6.1.1 MENA as a Major Producing Area
6.1.2 The Eastern Mediterranean, a Forgotten Region
6.1.3 The Geography of International Oil Companies
6.2 EM Resources Discoveries: A Major Shift?
6.2.1 Israel: Looking for Leviathan
6.2.2 Cyprus: Aphrodite and the Maritime Border Dispute
6.2.3 Other Regional Players
6.3 The Balance Change: EM vs. North Africa

6.4 Conclusion
References
Chapter 7: From Resources to Final Customers, the Transportation Issue
7.1 The European Markets as the Final Destination
7.1.1 From Europe to Asia?
7.1.2 Energy Transitions and the Impact for Europe
7.1.3 Western Balkans New Appetite for Gas
7.2 Towards New Gasoducts
7.2.1 The Importance of EM for the EU: Avoiding the Russian Territory
7.2.1.1 Southern Gas Corridor
7.2.1.2 Eastern Mediterranean Projects
7.2.2 The Turkish Gambit: Between Russia and the EU
7.3 The LNG Issue: A Major Gamechanger?

7.4 Turkey and Greece: Becoming the New Gas Hub for Southern Europe
7.4.1 The EU in the Middle
7.5 Conclusion
References
Chapter 8: Energy Transitions in EM and MENA Regions, Towards New Alliances?
8.1 Energy Transitions in Resources Rich Areas
8.1.1 The Threat of Dutch Disease
8.1.2 Adaptation of National Energy Mixes
8.1.3 Towards New Business?
8.2 Renewable Energy Sources in Major Oil and Gas Producing Countries: Contrasted Situations
8.2.1 MENA: Algeria vs. Morocco
8.2.2 Gulf Countries and the Need to Diversify
8.2.3 Eastern Mediterranean Countries

8.3 International Cooperation in Energy Transition: A Specific Geo-Economic Issue
8.3.1 European Countries and Companies
8.3.2 Chinese Companies in Regional Energy Transitions
8.3.3 Regional Interconnection: Still a Dream?
8.4 Conclusion
References
Part III: Eastern Mediterranean Systemic International Regionalism in Process
Introduction
Reference
Chapter 9: Eastern Mediterranean Geopolitical Conception
References
Chapter 10: Turkey Extroventism
References
Chapter 11: Eastern Mediterranean Geopolitical Sub-System
References

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