الأهمية الاقتصادية و الاستراتيجية للمضائق و الممرات البحرية في العصر الحديث

Abstract EN

The straits and sea lanes are an important strategic component and a political engine par excellence in international relations.

They are along with the rest of the strategic components (economic strength, scientific and technological progress, and military superiority....) as they have an impact on the nature of relations between the persons of the international system, and even the most powerful of them in the decision-making process., And talk about straits and sea lanes as one of the elements of geopolitics from a legal point of view, which stems from the law of the sea, as it includes the concept of internal waters and defining territorial waters and their nature, and the right of countries over the neighboring region, and the consequences of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 1982 regarding the exclusive economic zone , which includes an important aspect because of the passages and channels it contains that have an impact on the economic and strategic aspects, as well as military considerations, and accordingly, if the importance of the subject was clear in the foregoing, then the importance seems clearer for the Arab countries, as most of them border some of these straits and sea lanes, including The Bab al-Mandab Strait, which is the subject of research, is characterized by a unique strategic location, as it is the southern gateway to the Red Sea and the neck of the glass Which links it with the Gulf of Aden and from there to the Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean, so its importance is due to its control over world trade in general and between East and West in particular.