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- Colonial Chaos in the Southern Red Sea
- Colonial Chaos in the Southern Red Sea
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Acknowledgements
- Note on the Text
- Dramatis Personae
- Abbreviations
- Additional material
- Introduction
- 1 Sultan Uthman’s Salvage Agreements
- 2 The Beginning of the End of Diplomacy
- 3 The New Rules of International Engagement
- 4 Undercover Colonialism, Coups and Chaos
- Conclusion
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index
Conclusion
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 August 2021
- Colonial Chaos in the Southern Red Sea
- Colonial Chaos in the Southern Red Sea
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Acknowledgements
- Note on the Text
- Dramatis Personae
- Abbreviations
- Additional material
- Introduction
- 1 Sultan Uthman’s Salvage Agreements
- 2 The Beginning of the End of Diplomacy
- 3 The New Rules of International Engagement
- 4 Undercover Colonialism, Coups and Chaos
- Conclusion
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The conclusion shows how persistent colonial chaos has been in the southern Red Sea. Local diplomacy retains a distinctly competitive and militaristic flavour to this day. International competition and realpolitik in the southern Red Sea has, if anything, intensified in the post-Cold War era. Looking at Puntland, south-west Yemen and Djibouti today, we see the Djiboutian government depends on money and recognition from renting space to foreign navies, while in Somalia and Yemen, rival power brokers seek to translate acts of maritime aggression into international negotiations for military and civil assistance. Opportunities to rekindle a regional culture of international cooperation exist, but are deeply submerged beneath the depths of colonial history.
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- Colonial Chaos in the Southern Red SeaA History of Violence from 1830 to the Twentieth Century, pp. 161 - 177Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021