Routledge Handbook on Cooperation Interdependencies and Security in the Mediterranean

<p>This Handbook provides an essential overview of the contemporary dynamics of the Mediterranean region. Conceptualising the Mediterranean as both a socio-cultural area and a geopolitical entity it considers the basin both as a whole and as a set of interacting subregions. Established scholars offer new perspectives and approaches from international history postcolonial studies migration studies geography private international law and public international law environmental and tourism studies to reappraise the long-term trends and ruptures that shape security interdependence and cooperation. These contributions explain the Mediterranean’s long-established role as a crossroads and demonstrate the political economic ecological and cultural meanings of security. The book shows how interdependence in economic environmental cultural and human sectors continues to bind the Mediterranean together as migration flows across the sea environmental change requires common action legal systems coexist and multifaceted identities growing cultural awareness and human rights remain on the political agenda.</p><p>This volume will be an invaluable resource for graduate students researchers and professionals seeking a comprehensive multidisciplinary approach to the historical political geographic and socio-cultural complexities challenges and potential of the area.</p>