The Great Barrier of the Ethiopian Renaissance and the risk of war in the Horn of Africa Cover Image

Marele Baraj al Renașterii Etiopiene și riscul unui război în Cornul Africii
The Great Barrier of the Ethiopian Renaissance and the risk of war in the Horn of Africa

Author(s): Alba Iulia Catrinel Popescu
Subject(s): Developing nations, Geopolitics
Published by: INFOSFERA - Revista de studii de securitate si Informații pentru Apărare
Keywords: Nile River;Blue Nile;Grand Dam of Ethiopian Renaissance;Ethiopia;Egypt;Muslim Brotherhood;Sudan;China;Horn of Africa;war;migration;

Summary/Abstract: In the context of climate change, controlling water sources is one of the most explosive challenges to the stability of the security environment. Almost all human civilization has been born in the plains of the great rivers because they have provided humans with both the basic resources of survival and development and natural protection against invasions. Such a stream is the Nile, in the basin of which were born the great Egyptian, Nubian and Ethiopian civilizations. If, until recently, Egypt was the main beneficiary of the Nile’s “gifts”, the project of the Great Barrier of the Ethiopian Renaissance under construction on the Blue Nile course radically changed the state of affairs. What will be the impact of this barrage on regional hydrolysis? Is it possible to witness the outbreak of a regional war? And if the answer is yes, what could be the impact of an Egyptian-Ethiopian conflict on regional security?

  • Issue Year: X/2018
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 45-57
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Romanian