Geopolitics of Conflicts and Refugees in the Middle East and North Africa

Ahsan Ullah Akm

Contemporary Review of the Middle East, 2018, vol. 5, issue 3, 258-274

Abstract: Geopolitically intertwined and strategically significant refugee policy in the MENA region is frequently analyzed in light of well-documented ethnic, religious, class, and border conflicts. However, the policy is also inexorably linked to the broader geopolitics of the global refugee protection regime and discourse. This article analyzes the complex relationship between geopolitics, domestic political dynamics, and their attendant crises in the MENA region. The complex set of political shockwaves of the Arab Spring induced massive mobility of people which may compound incipient political tensions between and within MENA states.

Keywords: MENA; refugee; Arab Spring; Syria; Egypt; Israel (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1177/2347798918776751

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