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Geographic Realities in the Middle East and North Africa: State, Oil and Agriculture book cover

1st Edition

Geographic Realities in the Middle East and North Africa State, Oil and Agriculture

Edited By George Joffé, Richard Schofield Copyright 2021
226 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

226 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

226 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Celebrating the work of Keith McLachlan, a well-known and much-admired geographer of the Middle East and North Africa, this book combines three interrelated topics that define the region. The Middle East has been integral to the growth of the global oil industry, an aspect of its evolution since 1908 which has had profound geopolitical implications as well. The territory was also the arena for... Read more

  1. 1. Geographic Realities in the Middle East and North Africa: State, Oil and Agriculture

    George Joffé and Richard Schofield

    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

    Richard Schofield

    3. A Border that has Defied Unification

    Noel Brehony

    4. A Geopolitical Perspective of Boundary Change and Buffer Function in Jordan, 1920–1994

    Kieran J. Rankin

    5. Can Insecure States Achieve Secure Borders? The Continuing Search for Security in the Evolution of Modern South Asia’s States

    Robert W. Bradnock

    6. Boundary Delimitation: The Role of History

    George Joffé

    Part II: Oil and Iran

    7. The Geopolitics of Energy Security: a Brief History

    George Joffé

    8. A Failure of Imagination? Britain, ‘The Narrative of Liberalisation’ and the Fall of the Shah

    Ali Ansari

    9. The International Oil Companies and Iran: A Classic Love–Hate Relationship

    Paul Stevens

    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

    Tony Allan

    11. Water and Agriculture in Iraq’s Euphrates Valley: The Challenges

    Greg Shapland

    12. An Afghan Shepherd’s Life

    Richard Tapper

Biography

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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