Publications

Iran and the Gulf countries in the shadow of recent events

The 14th Annual Conference of the Azri Center for the Study of Iran and the Gulf States On May 30, 2022, the Azri Center for the Study of Iran and the Gulf States at the University of Haifa held its 14th annual conference on “Iran and the Gulf States in the Shadow of Recent Events”. The conference was held in English via Zoom, in order to allow the participation of more researchers from abroad…

UNCLOS and Protection of Innocent Passage and Transit at Maritime Choke Points

Benny Spanier, Orin Scheffler, Elie Rettig (eds) This joint publication by the Center for Maritime Policy and Strategy (HMS) and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS) examines the emerging challenges and threats to maritime “choke points” connecting the Arabian Gulf with the Mediterranean. As issues such as piracy, autonomous vessels and deliberate sabotage come to the fore, this edited volume offers us new insight into how the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) can help ensure the protection of innocent passage and transit in the volatile waters of the Middle East….

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….

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… .

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…

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.

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.

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