Originality of the Middle East is that in comparison with other
regions, environmental policy bases all over more clearly reveal themselves, despite a variety of ideological rhetoric. Emerging research trend
of political ecology examines the intersection points of interests, conflicts, domination hierarchies, threat, values, from the position in which
the environmental problem is treated as a causative factor. The water
deficit in the Middle East becomes a cause of wars, agreements, maintaining the conflicts. On the other hand, the relative surplus of not renewable resources of hydrocarbons in the region makes the region the
subject of fight of global political forces for monopolistic control over
the Middle East. The threat of nuclear conflict with Israel turns regional
contradictions in environmental problems of a global nature.
Translated title of the contributionPOLITICAL ECOLOGY AS A MEASUREMENT OF THE FOUNDATIONS OF POLITICS IN THE MIDDLE EAST
Original languageRussian
Title of host publicationСтраны Большого Ближнего Востока во внешнеполитической стратегии России
Subtitle of host publicationСборник статей
Place of PublicationСПб.
PublisherИздательство Санкт-Петербургского университета
Pages62-68
ISBN (Print)978-5-288-06085-4
StatePublished - 2020
EventСтраны Большого Ближнего Востока во внешнеполитической стратегии России - СПбГУ, Санкт-Петербург, Russian Federation
Duration: 26 Mar 201927 Mar 2019

Conference

ConferenceСтраны Большого Ближнего Востока во внешнеполитической стратегии России
Abbreviated titleБлижний Восток во внешней политике РФ
Country/TerritoryRussian Federation
CityСанкт-Петербург
Period26/03/1927/03/19

    Research areas

  • political ecology, resource scarcity, water, monopolistic control, oil, gas, nuclear conflict

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