The Suez Canal: Past Lessons and Future Challenges

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxxi

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2. Politics, Geopolitics, and Geostrategy

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. The Suez Canal: Forthcoming Strategic and Geopolitical Challenges

      • Shaul Chorev

      Pages 3-26Open Access

   3. China and the Suez Canal—Politics, Economy, and Logistics

      • Ehud Gonen

      Pages 27-41Open Access

   4. The Butterfly Effect: The Influence of the Nixon Administration’s Preoccupation with Vietnam on Sadat’s February 1971 Proposal to Reopen the Suez Canal

      • Yehuda Blanga

      Pages 43-68Open Access

3. Energy Aspects

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 69-69

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   2. Suez and the United States: Oil, Lifelines, and “All of Mankind” in the Cold War

      • Christopher R. W. Dietrich

      Pages 71-93Open Access

   3. The Global Oil Market and the Status of the Suez Canal

      • Yossi Mann

      Pages 95-114Open Access

4. Legal Aspects

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 115-115

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   2. Freedom of Navigation in the Suez Canal and the Channels: Law of the Sea

      • Benny Spanier

      Pages 117-133Open Access

   3. International Law and Freedom of Navigation Through the Suez Canal

      • Robbie Sabel

      Pages 135-145Open Access

   4. Israel’s Freedom of Passage in the Suez Canal, 1957–1967

      • Eitan Barak

      Pages 147-177Open Access

5. Environmental and Human Impacts

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 179-179

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   2. The Impact of the Suez Canal on Egypt’s Geography and Economy, 1867–2019 (150 Years Since Its Opening)

      • Arnon Soffer

      Pages 181-198Open Access

   3. A Sea, a Canal, a Disaster: The Suez Canal and the Transformation of the Mediterranean Biota

      • Bella S. Galil

      Pages 199-215Open Access

   4. Increased Anthropogenic Activity in the Mediterranean Since the Opening of the Suez Canal

      • Semion Polinov

      Pages 217-229Open Access

   5. Stranding of the Mega-Ship Ever Given in the Suez Canal: Causes, Consequences, and Lessons to Be Learned

      • Aleksander Gerson

      Pages 231-252Open Access

6. Back Matter

   Pages 253-264

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• Geo-strategic
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“Most gave little thought to the Suez Canal until that vital maritime and economic artery became blocked in March of 2021. Presciently and fortunately, Ziv Rubinovitz and Carmela Lutmar were not in that camp. They have assembled a superb collection of studies that contribute greatly to understanding the Canal’s consequential history, its essentiality in today’s geopolitical and geoeconomic environment, and the waterway’s continued centrality in future regional and global affairs. Beyond being a must read for historians, economists, and security professionals; this book should be at the top of all reading lists as maritime commerce, global supply chains, and the Suez Canal will continue to profoundly affect our daily lives.”

 

—Admiral Gary Roughead, U.S. Navy (Retired), Former U.S. Navy Chief of Naval Operations. 

• University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

  Carmela Lutmar, Ziv Rubinovitz

Carmela Lutmar is Senior Lecturer in the Division of International Relations in the School of Political Sciences at the University of Haifa, Israel, and Adjunct Lecturer at New York University, USA. Her research interests include leadership, regime changes, mediation in civil wars, and postwar governance in war torn societies.

Ziv Rubinovitz is Research Fellow at the Chaikin Chair for Geostrategy at the University of Haifa, Israel, and Research Coordinator of the Maritime Policy and Strategy Research Center, the Chaikin Chair for Geostrategy, the Ezri Center for Iran and Gulf States Research, and the Wydra Division of Shipping and Ports at the University of Haifa. His research interests include international security, geopolitics, US foreign policy, Israeli foreign policy, and US-Israel relations.