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….

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… .

With the signing of the Abraham Agreement at the White House on September 15, 2020, a new historical era was inaugurated in relations between Israel and the Arab Gulf states. What was once a limited and secretive relationship suddenly blossomed into a multi-faceted public courtship. Against this background, the Azri Center for the Study of Iran and the Persian Gulf of the University of Haifa – operating as part of the Haifa Policy and Strategy Research Center (HMS) – hosted its annual symposium on October 3, 2020 entitled “Gulf States – From the Periphery to the Center.”…

This research work is a product of the research collaboration between the Center for Maritime Policy and Strategy Research, University of Haifa (HMS), Israel, and the National Maritime Foundation, New Delhi, with the aim of providing policy recommendations to the respective governments of India. Israel. The issue of climate change continues to turn on the light. Although there is no consensus in the scientific community about the rate at which climate change is actually occurring, there is no doubt that climate change is actually occurring as we speak. Currently, climate change is limited to the field of climatology/meteorology only, but it has implications in many other processes, some natural and some man-made. As the Earth warms due to climate change, it…

This research work is a product of the research collaboration between the Center for Maritime Policy and Strategy Research, University of Haifa (HMS), Israel, and the National Maritime Foundation, New Delhi, with the aim of providing policy recommendations to the respective governments of India. Israel. Over the past few years, China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has generated significant interest among various countries, regardless of their individual approaches to sustainable growth in their national policies. There is growing enthusiasm to cooperate with China on this initiative or maintain a guarded and cautious approach. Even the political analysts and policy makers, admirers and critics alike, admit that the rise of China and its influence on the world can no longer…

This volume is a collection of proceedings of the webinar “Developments in the Middle East” which was the first international webinar to mark the academic collaboration between the Azri Center for the Study of Iran and the Gulf States, Haifa University, Israel and the Department of Political Studies and Government, University of the Free State, South Africa….

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…

On October 30, 2019, the Ministerial Committee for National Security (“the Security Cabinet”) received Resolution 372/B on the subject: “Determining a process and mechanism for examining national security aspects of foreign direct investments”1 (for the full text, see Appendix 1)…

A joint American-Israeli team of experts gathered at the University of Haifa on August 22-23, 2018 to discuss maritime security in the Eastern Mediterranean. The team’s work is part of the activities of a consortium established in 2016 between the Center for Maritime Policy and Strategy Research at the University of Haifa and the Hudson Institute, which is located in the USA. This was a continuation of the discussions of a joint team of experts on security and energy issues that took place in 2016 and which produced a joint report published in September 2016 on Security and energy in the Eastern Mediterranean….

The purpose of this chapter is to briefly describe the latest developments in artificial islands in Israel and the innovations in floating platforms…

In early 2016, and as part of the University of Haifa’s effort to take a leading role in national maritime research, the University’s Board of Trustees approved the establishment of the Haifa Research Center for Maritime Policy and Strategy, which will be involved in research related to regional security. and foreign policy, flow of goods, people and ideas, law, energy and the environment….

At the beginning of 2016, the Board of Trustees of the University of Haifa approved the establishment of the Haifa Research Center for Maritime Policy and Strategy1, with the aim of conducting research on regional security and foreign policy issues, the flow of goods. , people and ideas, law, energy and environment, from the perspective of their impact on Israel’s national security…

The last year has seen increased international interest in the strategic and security aspects of the global maritime domain. The US and Russia published major naval strategy documents in 2015, while China included a significant portion of its strategic white paper.

During the last decade, we have witnessed an increase in the level of engagement in issues of maritime policy and strategy in many countries around the world. The motivations for this were global processes that increase the importance of the seas and oceans as a shared area of ​​strategic importance for the countries of the world and related to all issues of world trade, the economy, energy and transit of goods. People from one end of the world to the other…

For at least three thousand five hundred years, ever since Pharaoh Thutmose III of Egypt sent an army by sea to conquer Syria, the eastern Mediterranean has been a major theater of world politics. Since then, they have been and remain a critical highway not only for military operations but for trade…

To what extent and in what ways are individual leaders important to international politics? This article sheds new light on these questions by examining the consequences of internal revolutions in international relations. We argue that revolutions have international effects due to two distinct pathways, one related to the event and one related to the administration of the new leader. In the first track, a revolutionary event disrupts established relationships and perceptions, and creates uncertainty both in the country and abroad….

Few studies explain how wars affect trade with third parties. We argue that wartime trade policy should increase trade with friendly and hostile third parties, but reduce trade with hostile and enemy-friendly third parties…

This is a study of Eastern Mediterranean security and how the United States and Israel can improve cooperation to protect their shared interests. The special focus of the research is the marine field…

This article presents review reports of scientists and experts in the Russian-speaking Aliyah at the interdisciplinary scientific conference “Problems of the Development of Israel’s Territorial Sea”, Netanya, November 2018…

In 2013, the Chinese government announced an ambitious project called “One Belt One Road” (OBOR), which was renamed in 2017 to “Belt and Road Initiative” (BRI). The initiative includes a large number of massive infrastructure and transportation projects along two routes between Europe and China. The land route (One Road) crosses the countries of Central Asia and is based on the historic Silk Road, which includes six logistics corridors. The maritime route (the Maritime Belt – the Maritime Silk Road) passes through China, Southeast Asia, Indian Ocean ports, East Africa, the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea. At this stage, the BRI framework includes about 200 joint projects (both on the land route and on the sea route) and the initiative is intended to include about 64 countries….

At the time of the previous Israeli naval strategic assessment (end of 2016),1 it was already known that a new American administration would take office in early 2017, and it was thought that this might herald a change in US foreign policy, including its policy in the Eastern Mediterranean….