The Red Sea.. Features of Conflict Cooperation Opportunities
Purpose: The study aims at showing the geostrategic importance of the Red Sea that makes it a venue of competition and conflict among many local, regional and international powers, showing the aspects of the conflict through determining its elements, introducing existing and future cooperation opportunities and determining the type of relationship between the aspects of the conflict and the opportunities of cooperation in the Red Sea. Design / Methodology / Approach: The study is based on using “The New Functionalism Approach”, this approach is an automatic and transitional approach in the same time so that integration among States shall necessarily start in the economic field that automatically leads – if necessary conditions are met – to move to other fields until the integration process reaches its peak. According to the new functionalism approach, the spillover factor is considered the major drive for the process of integration and merging.
