Title:	Oil, Power and Politics
Other Titles:	Conflict in Arabia, the Red Sea and the Gulf
Authors:	Mordechai, Abir
Keywords:	Conflict in Arabia, the Red Sea and the Gulf
Issue Date:	1974
Publisher:	Frank Cass: London
Description:	Until recent years the logic of grouping together in one book studies on the politics and conflicts of an area including both the Horn of Africa and the Arabian/Persian Gulf would have been. questioned by many. Among the poorest and climatically most difficult parts of the world, the Red Sea and the Gulf have served from the earliest times as a bridge between the Far East, the Mediterranean and Europe. But while notable as a bone of contention between the Great Powers, the region gained little in the past from its relative importance and the luxurious transit trade which went through it and which enriched and helped develop other lands. The endless conflicts between the largely poor and backward peoples of the Red Sea and Gulf littoral, mainly over the meagre resources of the region, were, in most cases, local in character and of little wider significance. The decline of British power and western interests in the Red Sea, followed by the persistent expansion of Russia’s presence and influence in the region and the dramatic growth in importance of the Gulf’s oil resources, have completely transformed the situation. These changes polarised existing conflicts, created new ones, and made it quite evident that not only did these conflicts have many common denominators but so interrelated were they that no single one could be isolated from another and studied by itself
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/10051
ISBN:	0-203-98868-X
Appears in Collections:	African Studies

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