The Suez Canal: Past Lessons and Future Challenges

This open access book seeks to provide a survey of historical, geopolitical, economic, and environmental developments in the last 150 years and to highlight future challenges it faces as it pertains to the areas mentioned earlier. It argues that the centrality of the canalgeo-strategically and otherwiserequires a shift in scholarly focus to study the various aspects from an interdisciplinary perspective. This book addresses several gaps in the literaturethe first being a lack of a systematic examination of historical aspects in the development of the canal in 150 years. The second is a careful study of the canals geostrategic importance. The third is a combination of several disciplines that examine the centrality of the Suez Canal.