Water and Middle East Geopolitics and Security
The Middle East is the world’s most unstable region, which impacts on Western interests and security. Though overshadowed by the global “war on terror” and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a common problem that continues to affect the area “from Marrakech to Bangladesh” is access to sources of drin...
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| Veröffentlicht in: | The Polish quarterly of international affairs 2005, Vol.14 (2), p.82-97 |
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| Sprache: | eng |
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| Zusammenfassung: | The Middle East is the world’s most unstable region, which impacts on Western interests and security. Though overshadowed by the global “war on terror” and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a common problem that continues to affect the area “from Marrakech to Bangladesh” is access to sources of drinking water. For as early as 1985 Boutros Boutros-Ghali, then foreign minister of Egypt and later UN Secretary-General, recognized that forthcoming armed conflicts in the Middle East would be linked to disputes over access to water. |
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| ISSN: | 1230-4999 |