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The Role of Powerbroking in the Mediterranean Hydrocarbon Issue and Its Impact on Environmental Crisis - A Kin-State Case Dimension on Cyprus

Mediterranean Institute for Regional Studies

10/6/2023 7:38:00 AM

The Mediterranean Sea is prone to pollution as it is almost entirely enclosed by land and its warm waters need more than 80-90 years to clean and revive themselves. The dynamic environment and climate variables affect this region, known as the cradle of civilization. Many studies have examined the Mediterranean hydrocarbon issue through varying approaches that provide an understanding of how cooperation or conflict is promoted in the region. The regional security complex approach, securitization

Erdoğan’s Eastern Med Repentance: Too Little, Too Late

Mediterranean Institute for Regional Studies

6/18/2021 8:25:00 AM

Turkey’s neo-Ottoman strongman would topple Syrian dictator Bashir Assad and replace him with Sunni Islamists while kicking the US and Russia out of Muslim lands; embolden the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt; internationally isolate Israel and champion the Palestinian cause; be a game-changer in the Eastern Mediterranean,

A New Reality for the Eastern Mediterranean

Mediterranean Institute for Regional Studies

8/15/2020 10:54:00 AM

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The great geostrategic and economic problems the Eastern Mediterranean is currently facing require drastic measures and original thinking. There are success stories in the region that provide positive examples of how a new collective reality can be created through the initiative of the main actors. Deeper cooperation and synergies can prove highly constructive for the region.

Athens and Jerusalem Have a Diplomatic Opportunity

Mediterranean Institute for Regional Studies

6/14/2020 9:24:00 AM

Greece, Israel, and five other countries of the Eastern Mediterranean have established the East Med Gas Forum. Turkey is not a member and is employing its own muscular approach in the region.

Why are tensions rising between Greece and Turkey in the Mediterranean?

Mediterranean Institute for Regional Studies

12/22/2019 8:12:00 PM

Turkey and Greece have been at loggerheads over territorial boundaries for decades, but things have heated up in recent weeks with a battle for undersea natural resources threatening a geopolitical collision at Europe's southern border.

Turkey to start drilling for gas off Cyprus

Mediterranean Institute for Regional Studies

2/28/2019 8:08:00 AM

The discovery of gas field in the eastern Mediterranean has led to claims from both the internationally recognized Greek Cypriot government and Ankara, backing the breakaway Turkish Cypriot administration.

New Strategic Dimensions of the Eastern Mediterranean

Mediterranean Institute for Regional Studies

6/11/2018 9:36:00 PM

The region presents all the required attributes to function as a distinct sub-regional system in the 21st century’s international environment. The Eastern Mediterranean holds the interest of the great powers (the US, Russia, and China); it contains resolute regional actors that influence the sociopolitical orbit of the region (Israel, Egypt, and Turkey); and international diplomacy may create firm ties between states that go far beyond normative alliance arrangements and thus function as power m

The Collision of New Regional and Global Order in the Middle East: A security and economic reading of the future of regional conflicts

Bahrooz Jaafar

3/19/2018 9:15:00 PM

The events of the Middle East head towards a new regional and global system, in the last quarter of 2017 and the first few months of 2018 there were Gulf Crisis, reform attempts in Saudi Arabia with the support of Trump administration, the failure of Kurdish bid for independence, the resining of Lebanon PM Saad Hariri, killing the former president of Yemen Ali Abula Salih, the warm relations among Russia-Turkey, Iran-Turkey, the defeat of ISIS in Iraq,

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