Description |
1 online resource (54 pages) : color illustrations, color maps |
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Strategic importance of the Middle East |
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Strategic importance of the Middle East
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Summary |
This section of the brief examines how changes in U.S. dependence on energy imports, climate change, the Ukraine war, and the growing competition between major powers affect both the reality of the region’s strategic importance and different international perceptions of its importance. These changes include a supposed end to U.S. dependence on the secure and stable flow of MENA oil and gas exports that has led some planners and analysts to discount the importance MENA oil and gas exports have to the United States. At the same time, other estimates ignore the impact or climate change or show that current national policies to date fall far short of those needed to halt global warming. Still other projections largely ignore the impact of climate change and focus on economic development in ways that estimate there will be sharp rises in oil and gas exports to key parts of the developing world. A third set of major shifts in the strategic importance of the Middle East is driven by the growing strategic confrontations between the major powers |
Notes |
"January 2023." |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from PDF caption (CSIS, viewed January 10, 2023) |
Subject |
Petroleum industry and trade -- Middle East -- Strategic aspects
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Petroleum industry and trade -- Africa, North -- Strategic aspects
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Climatic changes -- Economic aspects -- Middle East
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Climatic changes -- Economic aspects -- Africa, North
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Security, International -- Middle East
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Security, International -- Africa, North
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Climatic changes -- Economic aspects
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Security, International
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Strategic aspects of individual places
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SUBJECT |
Middle East -- Strategic aspects
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Africa, North -- Strategic aspects
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Middle East
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North Africa
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Center for Strategic and International Studies (Washington, D.C.): publisher
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