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Author:   George Joffé ,  Richard Schofield
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.600kg
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9780367609467

ISBN 10:   0367609460
Pages:   218
Publication Date:   09 January 2023
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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1. Geographic Realities in the Middle East and North Africa: State, Oil and Agriculture Part I: Boundaries and the State 2. Back to 1975 and All That: Linking the Technicalities and Underlying Dynamics of Iraq’s Border Disputes at the Head of the Persian Gulf 3. A Border that has Defied Unification 4. A Geopolitical Perspective of Boundary Change and Buffer Function in Jordan, 1920–1994 5. Can Insecure States Achieve Secure Borders? The Continuing Search for Security in the Evolution of Modern South Asia’s States 6. Boundary Delimitation: The Role of History Part II: Oil and Iran 7. The Geopolitics of Energy Security: a Brief History 8. A Failure of Imagination? Britain, ‘The Narrative of Liberalisation’ and the Fall of the Shah 9. The International Oil Companies and Iran: A Classic Love–Hate Relationship Part III: Agriculture and Water 10. Agriculture in MENA Rentier Economies: Coping with Extremely Unstable Revenues and the Arrival of Revolutionary Regimes in Libya and Iran 11. Water and Agriculture in Iraq’s Euphrates Valley: The Challenges 12. An Afghan Shepherd’s Life

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George Joffé, former deputy director at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA) and former Lecturer in the international relations of the Middle East and North Africa at POLIS, University of Cambridge. In addition to publishing co-authored and edited books, he has published articles in the Journal of North African Studies and book chapters in Islamist radicalisation in North Africa (2011) and Civil Resistance in the Arab Spring (ed. Roberts et al. 2016) amongst others. Richard Schofield, Reader in geography at King’s College, University of London, is a specialist in archival sources for the study of boundary and territorial disputes, particularly of the Arabian Peninsula and Persian Gulf. His publications include Territorial Foundations of the Gulf States (1994) and articles in various journals like Mediterranean Politics and Geopolitics.

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