Suchergebnisse

Water security issues, especially a growing shortage of ground water resources; possible consequences for the region's political and economic stability; lecture.

Although the Middle East possesses natural assets in full measure, with an estimated two-thirds of the world's proven oil reserves, and land in abundance, both irrigable arable land, and arid range land, it is deficient in the most strategic and valuable of all natural resources - water. Some dive forecasts have been made about the impending water shortage, and the consequences for the region's economic development and political stability. The author examines usage and shortage of water and the requirements of water security in the Middle East. (DÜI-Sen)

1. The MENA-EA nexus : introduction and conceptual framework / Yukiko Miyagi -- 2. Middle East-East Asia relations : between geopolitics and globalization / Anoushiravan Ehteshami -- 3. Gulf-East Asian relations : from economic interdependence to strategic cooperation / N. Janardhan -- 4. East Asia and the Middle East : inter-regional dynamics and American hegemony / Raymond Hinnebusch and Yukiko Miyagi -- 5. Japan's energy policy and energy diplomacy in the Gulf / Yoshikazu Kobayashi and Yukiko Miyagi -- 6. Japan in the Gulf : between intra-bureaucratic politics and inter-Asian rivalry / Namie Tsujigami and Koji Horinuki -- 7. China's energy diplomacy towards the Middle East / Janet Xuanli Liao -- 8. Sino-Iranian relations since the Cold War / Baris Adibelli -- 9. China's policy towards Saudi Arabia : searching for a reliable partner / Naser al-Tamimi -- 10. American hegemony (and hubris) : the Iranian nuclear issue, and the future of Sino-Iranian relations / Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett -- 11. China and the USA in the Middle East and Islamic world / Robert R. Bianchi -- 12. Conclusion : Asianization and systemic shift / Anoushiravan Ehteshami.

Explores challenges the region poses to arms control and disarmament and prospects for progress; includes discussions of the Arab-Israeli peace process, missile proliferation, and the United Nations and Iraq; 7 articles. Text in English and French. Parallel title: Le Moyen-Orient.

This commemorative volume discusses aspects of the life and work of the internationally famous scholar Professor W. Montgomery Watt (1909-2006).