A Geopolitical and Geo-economic Introduction

In the recent years the geopolitical developments in North Africa and South Eastern Mediterranean corresponds with the Regions and Empires storyline that Aad Correljé and Coby van der Linde discussed in an article in mid-2000s. The Arab Spring events (from 2010 onwards) and the subsequent civil war in Libya (2011) or the on-going one in Syria have altered the strategic geography of this area. However, these incidents are only a part of the general trend of "the politics of international diffusion" to use the theme of the 2013 International Studies Association convention that ...