Disputes Over Natural Gas Reserves in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea

While much attention has been paid to Arab uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East, disputes in the neighbouring region of the eastern Mediterranean Sea over the development of vast offshore natural gas fields are also worthy of our attention. Since 2009, marine exploration companies have found some of the world’s largest, untapped, offshore natural gas reserves of the decade in the eastern Mediterranean. These discoveries have brought into stark relief the question of conflicting

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