...Jude Kadri This article addresses the geopolitics of Bab-al-Mandeb in the war on Yemen, which began in 2015 and continues to this day, in the context of a global pandemic. It makes the hypothesis that securing Bab-al-Mandeb is fundamental for US imperialism. For reasons to do with its global...

... leadership as a source of ‘ontological security’. CONTACT Amr G. E. Sabet © 2017 The Centre for Arab Unity Studies 2017 Critical junctures dissonance Egypt geopolitics identity Iran keying Gamal Abdel Nasser path dependency peace treaty process tracing securitization security...

... of political thought shows the impact of the constantly changing geopolitical environment on Arab thinkers. It also shows that essentialist attempts to analyze and grasp the ‘Arab mind’ through a single factor and, namely, through the structure of Muslim theology and laws ( sharia ) are not successful and lead...

...Amr G. E. Sabet Geopolitics is about power and hegemony, with its dual components of domination and consent. Controlling space requires dominion. Organizing and administering space at reasonable costs demands authority and acquiescence. This conceptualization of geopolitics pertains...

...’ in the Middle East, uninterested in challenging the United States. * Email: [email protected] © 2013 The Centre for Arab Unity Studies 2013 Asia rising American decline Middle East US foreign policy Indian Ocean China India international relations geopolitics Geopolitical shifts...