The Red Sea as a theater of Italian foreign policy: past, present and future

Bounejar, Wiame (A.A. 2023/2024) The Red Sea as a theater of Italian foreign policy: past, present and future. Tesi di Laurea in Chinese studies, Luiss Guido Carli, relatore Silvia Menegazzi, pp. 105. [Master's Degree Thesis]

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Abstract/Index

A geopolitical sea: the red sea in historical sources. The Red Sea: a historically strategic space. From pre-historic sources to the coming of age of Red Sea studies. The birth of the Suez Canal and the transformation of the Red Sea. The Red Sea as a regional sub-system. A sea of turmoil: impacts of the security systems of the Horn of Africa and the Middle East on the Red Sea region. Great power competition in the Red Sea: a comparative analysis of the American, European and Chinese approaches. The United States as the traditional security provider in the Red Sea. The EU and its rethinking of “actorness” in the Red Sea. China as a latecomer to the Red Sea: free-rider or key promoter of stability? Prospects of maritime security cooperation in the Red Sea. Making sense of the Italian policy in the Red Sea: from the “Italian East Africa” to the “wider Mediterranean”. Italian approach to the Red Sea during the scramble for an empire. The ascendancy and fall Italian dominion in Southern Red Sea during the first half of the twentieth century. Postcolonial Italy and the emergence of “the idea of the Mediterranean role of Italy”. Italian contributions to security in the Red Sea: from NATO’s Mediterranean dialogue to the invention of “wider Mediterranean”. Back to the Red Sea: Italy’s contribution to EU’s operation aspides (2024).

References

Bibliografia: pp. 87-93.

Thesis Type: Master's Degree Thesis
Institution: Luiss Guido Carli
Degree Program: Master's Degree Programs > Master's Degree Program in International Relations (LM-52)
Chair: Chinese studies
Thesis Supervisor: Menegazzi, Silvia
Thesis Co-Supervisor: Minniti, Domenico
Academic Year: 2023/2024
Session: Extraordinary
Deposited by: Alessandro Perfetti
Date Deposited: 10 Jul 2025 14:55
Last Modified: 10 Jul 2025 14:55
URI: https://tesi.luiss.it/id/eprint/42893

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