Suez Canal: Past Lessons and Future Challenges

Carmela Lutmar is Senior Lecturer in the Division of International Relations in the School of Political Sciences at the University of Haifa, Israel, and Adjunct Lecturer at New York University, USA. Her research interests include leadership, regime changes, mediation in civil wars, and postwar governance in war torn societies.Ziv Rubinovitz is Research Fellow at the Chaikin Chair for Geostrategy at the University of Haifa, Israel, and Research Coordinator of the Maritime Policy and Strategy Research Center, the Chaikin Chair for Geostrategy, the Ezri Center for Iran and Gulf States Research, and the Wydra Division of Shipping and Ports at the University of Haifa. His research interests include international security, geopolitics, US foreign policy, Israeli foreign policy, and US-Israel relations.

• 1. The Suez Canal: Forthcoming Strategic and Geopolitical Challenges (Shaul Chorev).- 2. China and the Suez Canal: Politics, Economy, and Logistics (Ehud Gonen).- 3. The Butterfly Effect: The Influence of the Nixon Administration's Preoccupation with Vietnam on Sadat's February 1971 Proposal to Reopen the Suez Canal (Yehuda Blanga).- 4. Suez and the United States: Oil, Lifelines, and "All of Mankind" in the Cold War (Christopher R. W. Dietrich).- 5. The Global Oil Market and the Status of the Suez Canal (Yossi Mann).- 6. Freedom of Navigation in the Suez Canal and the Cannels: Law of the Sea (Benny Spanier).- 7. International Law and Freedom of Navigation through the Suez Canal (Robbie Sabel).- 8. Israel's Freedom of Passage in the Suez Canal, 1957-1967 (Eitan Barak).- 9. The Impact of the Suez Canal on Egypt's Geography and Economy, 1867-2019 (150 years since its opening) (Arnon Soffer).- 10. A Sea, a Canal, a Disaster: The Suez Canal and the Transformation of the Mediterranean Biota (Bella S. Galil).- 11. Increased Anthropogenic Activity in the Mediterranean since the Opening of the Suez Canal (Semion Polinov).- 12. Standing of the Mega-Ship Ever Given in the Suez Canal: Causes, Consequences, and Lessons to be Learned (Aleksander Gerson).