The Strategic Formulation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23487240 |
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| Authors | William Stivers (University of Southern California, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1986 |
| Pages | 28-37 |
| Publication date | 1986-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | America's Confrontation with Revolutionary Change in the Middle East, 1948-83 (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/978-1-349-08398-5_3 |
| OpenAlex | W2506375022 |
| ISBN | 9781349083985 |
| Language | EN |
Decolonisation would transform the strategic topography of the world. Newly independent states could turn not only against the West, but also against each other, sparking local conflicts that could expand in wider, and more dangerous, directions. At the same time, the loss of territory to Western control would make it all the more difficult to maintain the military presence which seemed so urgent in view of portentous shifts in global power. Nowhere would such currents of change be so powerful as on the littoral of the Indian Ocean.
Decolonization · Development economics · Economic geography · Economics · Geography · Littoral zone · Physics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Sociology · Geology · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law · Oceanography · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East
| Highly cited | No |
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