Publication

Jun 2016

This paper first discusses how Saudi Arabia's military intervention in Yemen might be motivated, at least in part, by its fear that Iran might eventually blockade the Hormuz Strait, and thereby complicate Riyadh’s efforts to build an oil pipeline with direct access to the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean. The text’s author then reviews the possibility that Saudi Arabia’s, Qatar’s and Turkey’s involvement in the Syrian Civil War could also involve pipeline politics. Finally, she considers what would happen to maritime commerce if Egypt, Libya, Syria and other countries in the Eastern Mediterranean fall to Islamist forces.

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Author Christina Lin
Series ISPSW Publications
Issue 429
Publisher Institut für Strategie- Politik- Sicherheits- und Wirtschaftsberatung (ISPSW)
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