The Impact of Turkey’s Actions on the Growing Energy Security Conflict in the Eastern Mediterranean

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Faculty of Economics and Political Science - Cairo University

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There are many proofs that we have a state of “Hyper-dynamic” in the Eastern Mediterranean region, accompanied with a noticeable shift in the power structures in the region. Although Cairo traditionally maintained a key role in the Mediterranean basin, the balances of power shifted away towards other Arab and non-Arab powers in the region. This created significant impacts on the interactions of the regional system, as well as on the interactions among Cairo, Greece, Cyprus, Ankara, Israel, and other states within what we can call the “Lebensraum.”
Based on the “Lebensraum” theory, the hypothesis of “Security Disorder” in the region. This can be evidenced by the increasing “militarization of interactions,” in parallel with Turkish threats against many actors in the Eastern Mediterranean in multiple specialized files. This pushed other countries to accelerate their efforts in drawing their direct or indirect defensive policies, as a reaction to the change in the Turkish foreign policy through one-side re-positioning in the region, with focus on “sovereignty” and “Energy” files.

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