In 1902, Alfred Thayer Mahan, American Naval Officer and geopolitics expert, wrote that:
The Middle East, if I may adopt a term which I have not seen, will someday need its Malta, as well as its Gibraltar; it does not follow that either will be in the Persian Gulf. Naval force has the quality of mobility which carries with it the privilege of temporary absences; but it needs to find on every scene of operation established bases of refit, of supply, and in case of disaster, of security. The British Navy should have the facility to concentrate in force if occasion arise, about Aden, India, and the Persian Gulf. (cited in Adelson 1995, p. 22)
Thus, Mahan provided a new concept and defined a certain part of the geography which had been called as “Orient, The Near East, Turkish Asia” by the West until that day.
As the foreign news editor of The Times which was one of the loudest advocates of Britain imperialism, Sir Valentine Chirol wrote 20 articles under the main title of The Middle...
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Ağcabay, C., Taştekin, U. (2019). Middle East, Socialism and Anti-imperialism. In: Ness, I., Cope, Z. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91206-6_106-1
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