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1. The Suez Canal: Forthcoming Strategic and Geopolitical Challenges (Shaul Chorev) -- 2. China and the Suez Canal: Politics, Economy, and Logistics (Ehud Gonen) -- 3. 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) -- 4. Suez and the United States: Oil, Lifelines, and "All of Mankind" in the Cold War (Christopher R. W. Dietrich) -- 5. The Global Oil Market and the Status of the Suez Canal (Yossi Mann) -- 6. Freedom of Navigation in the Suez Canal and the Cannels: Law of the Sea (Benny Spanier) -- 7. International Law and Freedom of Navigation through the Suez Canal (Robbie Sabel) -- 8. Israel's Freedom of Passage in the Suez Canal, 1957-1967 (Eitan Barak) -- 9. The Impact of the Suez Canal on Egypt's Geography and Economy, 1867-2019 (150 years since its opening) (Arnon Soffer) -- 10. A Sea, a Canal, a Disaster: The Suez Canal and the Transformation of the Mediterranean Biota (Bella S. Galil) -- 11. Increased Anthropogenic Activity in the Mediterranean since the Opening of the Suez Canal (Semion Polinov) -- 12. Standing of the Mega-Ship Ever Given in the Suez Canal: Causes, Consequences, and Lessons to be Learned (Aleksander Gerson). .

This open access book seeks to provide a survey of historical, geopolitical, economic, and environmental developments in the last 150 years and to highlight future challenges it faces as it pertains to the areas mentioned earlier. It argues that the centrality of the canal—geo-strategically and otherwise—requires a shift in scholarly focus to study the various aspects from an interdisciplinary perspective. This book addresses several gaps in the literature—the first being a lack of a systematic examination of historical aspects in the development of the canal in 150 years. The second is a careful study of the canal's geostrategic importance. The third is a combination of several disciplines that examine the centrality of the Suez Canal.

This book explores theories of conflict and peacebuilding and applies them to case studies from the Asia Pacific region, seeking to shift attention to the inherency of conflict, the constant danger of re-emergence, and the need to establish mechanisms to resolve it. The authors argue that the central focus of peacebuilding should not be state-building per se, but rather the creation of effective mechanisms for peaceful resolution of both past and newly emerging conflicts. To do so, it is important to consider the entire process of creating peace, to contemplate the linkages between conflict, resolution, and post-conflict peacebuilding, rather than focus only on the period of institution-building. Carmela Lutmar is Visiting Lecturer at New York University, USA, and Lecturer in the Division of International Relations in the School of Political Sciences at the University of Haifa, Israel. James Ockey is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand.--

Abstract
According to International Relations scholarship, the main formal motivation for foreign aid is usually the unexpressed expectation for improvement of bilateral relations and overall international support. There is an anticipation that aid recipients will not "forget" their donors on the international stage, in particularly during important sessions at the UNGA. We test this assertion empirically on the case of Israeli foreign aid to African countries, using data on Israeli Official Development Aid provisions between 1997 and 2014, and data on voting patterns of aid recipients in the UN General Assembly (UNGA). Our results testify that Israeli bilateral humanitarian foreign aid not only has not provided its expected diplomatic revenues, but may perhaps even hindered African states' support in the UN. Concomitantly, our results testify that Israeli Official Development Aid (ODA) does not have the anticipated long term effects on international support towards Israel, but instead only a short-lived influence. The results are informative about the usefulness of foreign aid as a diplomatic tool, with important policy implications for decision makers in Israel and worldwide.

AbstractIn this paper, we focus on mediation in intrastate conflicts, specifically on the impact of rebel group goals on the prospects for mediation. We ask whether the goals for which rebel groups fight (i.e. secession, irredentism, autonomy, greater political rights, government overthrow) have an impact on the likelihood that these conflicts will be mediated. We test our hypotheses on a new data set of rebel groups in Africa 1962–2010.