Sword of Iron War: Initial Reflections on the Events in Israel’s Maritime Domain
Following the brutal invasion of southern Israel on October 7, 2023, the State of Israel declared war on Hamas—known in Israel as the “Swords of Iron War.” While the ground portion of the war has already received much scrutiny, only cursory attention has been given to the maritime domain component. Given the analytical void, this article intends to offer preliminary analysis and observations of the impact of the Swords of Iron War on Israel’s maritime domain. More research is still required.
MPS 2025 First Quarter Report
Israel Faces Dual Attacks as Houthis and Hamas Target Major Cities, IDF Expands Ground Operations in Gaza
An interview from the Algemeiner, written by: Debbie Weiss
Proper Conceptualization of Naval Operational Doctrine—A Case Study of the Israeli Navy
Developing a military concept (i.e., conceptualization) is essential to establishing effective operational doctrine. Formal military doctrines are authoritative and prescriptive documents containing war-fighting principles that military forces are expected to apply “with judgment.” Military concepts are ideas about the future that suggest the need for new approaches to the conduct of operations—that is, “today’s fight.” As the maritime domain grows increasingly essential to Israel’s overall security and resilience, the threat of conceptual confusion—the mistaken or muddled assessment of the future—looms over the Israeli navy’s development of a doctrine to defend these new interests at sea. In a sense, the navy is today operating under the very conceptual confusion that produced a flawed campaign in 2006 against Hezbollah in the second Lebanon war.
National Maritime Strategy: A Bottom-Up Approach
This article presents an innovative perspective: that national maritime strategies, strategic documents emphasizing holistic planning for every national aspect and sector related to the maritime domain – can be initiated, designed, and implemented from the bottom up. In other words, in the absence of government action to formulate a national strategy, a maritime cluster can take it upon itself to create a civilian maritime strategy.
Regulating Coastal Zones – International Perspectives on Land Management Instruments
Regulating Coastal Zones addresses the knowledge gap concerning the legal and regulatory challenges of managing land in coastal zones across a broad range of political and socio-economic contexts. In recent years, coastal zone management has gained increasing attention from environmentalists, land use planners, and decision-makers across a broad spectrum of felds. Development pressures along coasts such as high-end tourism projects, luxury housing, ports, energy generation, military outposts, heavy industry, and large-scale enterprise compete with landscape preservation and threaten local history and culture. Leading experts present ffteen case studies among advanced-economy countries, selected to represent three groups of legal contexts: Signatories to the 2008 Mediterranean ICZM Protocol, parties to the 2002 EU Recommendation on Integrated Coastal Zone Management, and the USA and Australia. This book is the frst to address the legal-regulatory aspects of coastal land management from a systematic cross-national comparative perspective. By including both successful and less effective strategies, it aims to inform professionals, graduate students, policymakers, and NGOs of the legal and socio-political challenges as well as the better practices from which others could learn.
Geopolitics, Geostrategy, and Geoeconomics of Armed Conflicts and Naval Campaigns: Russian-Ukrainian War and Houthi’s Threat off the Arabian Peninsula
This article analyzes geopolitical, geostrategic, and geoeconomics selected and still unfolding developments on the global stage that represent a direct or indirect effect of ongoing armed confrontations: the Russian-Ukrainian War and the maritime confrontation against the Houthi attacks in the Red Sea. Following the introduction, we analyze three development chains in the following three sections: strategic moves, armament process, and foreign aid of NATO and the EU. Second, Turkish strategy to navigate between the two sides of the conflict. Third, the formation of the Iran-Russia-China axis. Finally, we discuss implications from a broader perspective and provide concluding remarks.
Lessons learned from epidemics for addressing climate change Nitin Agarwala, Semion Polinov
Nitin Agarwala, Semion Polinov Abstract Public health emergencies such as pandemics and epidemics have been affecting human life for many years. Many of these health emergencies forced humans to make radical improvements in the then existing health and safety standards and improve their living conditions and ultimately come out stronger to continue business as usual. However, a public-health-emergency-in-waiting, climate change, may completely change the demographics and future of humans if changes are not made to the existing business-as-usual model. Although humans have the resilience to combat any public health emergency, climate change is one health emergency that has a slow impact and has the potential to create a complex challenge…
Proceedings of the first Master’s Webinar Collaboration
Six graduate students from the University of Haifa and the University of the Free State met with each other virtually, and held a fruitful webinar in which a wide range of research topics were presented and ideas were shared. It ranges from terrorism and drugs, to liberal democracy in sub-Saharan Africa, organized crime and political elites in sub-Saharan Africa, to research on Saudi foreign policy and research on China’s naval activity around the Horn of Africa… .
A technological solution for the production, storage, unloading and export of condensate produced from Israel’s offshore gas fields
The oil and gas business can be complicated. It is often influenced by personal interests, conflicting values and ideologies. This report presents a technological, legal and economic solution for the installation of a marine CALM buoy to download and export condensate[1] from offshore gas fields in Israel, and also aims to navigate through the aforementioned common challenges in the energy industry in relation to condensation. According to a new government policy, in the future further development of offshore oil and gas fields will be encouraged[2] and it will be necessary to provide adequate solutions for the disposal of additional condensate and other liquid by-products produced from such. fields….
