
{"id":3021,"date":"2018-02-09T11:07:34","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T11:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=3021"},"modified":"2018-02-09T11:07:34","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T11:07:34","slug":"with-eyes-on-the-indian-ocean-new-players-rush-into-the-horn-of-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/02\/09\/with-eyes-on-the-indian-ocean-new-players-rush-into-the-horn-of-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"WITH EYES ON THE INDIAN OCEAN, NEW PLAYERS RUSH INTO THE HORN OF AFRICA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/04\/turkeys-president-erdogan-on-top.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1973\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/04\/turkeys-president-erdogan-on-top-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/04\/turkeys-president-erdogan-on-top-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/04\/turkeys-president-erdogan-on-top-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/04\/turkeys-president-erdogan-on-top-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/04\/turkeys-president-erdogan-on-top-560x420.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/04\/turkeys-president-erdogan-on-top-260x195.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/04\/turkeys-president-erdogan-on-top-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sourced : War on the Rocks<\/p>\n<p>By David Brewster<\/p>\n<p>A race is underway between Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Turkey to build naval and military bases right across the Horn of Africa. This threatens to change the naval balance in the northwest Indian Ocean. But it may also presage the beginnings of a new strategic order in this complex and multipolar region where a host of major and middle powers jostle for influence and position.<\/p>\n<p>The strategic order in the Indian Ocean is changing fast. In the last few years we have seen major powers, such as China and India, building new bases in the western Indian Ocean. But we are now witnessing several Middle Eastern players building their own areas of influence. This is happening in the Horn of Africa, but is likely to spread further into the Indian Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at : https:\/\/warontherocks.com\/2018\/02\/with-eyes-on-the-indian-ocean-new-players-rush-into-the-horn-of-africa\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sourced : War on the Rocks By David Brewster A race is underway between Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Turkey to build naval and military bases right across the Horn of Africa. This threatens to change the naval balance in the northwest Indian Ocean. But it may also presage the beginnings of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/02\/09\/with-eyes-on-the-indian-ocean-new-players-rush-into-the-horn-of-africa\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WITH EYES ON THE INDIAN OCEAN, NEW PLAYERS RUSH INTO THE HORN OF AFRICA<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1365,171,90,1794],"class_list":["post-3021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security-and-strategy","tag-horn-of-africa","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-turkey","tag-united-arab-emirates-uae","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3022,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3021\/revisions\/3022"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}