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Egypt- Israel: Aiming for Rapprochment
Authors
Youssef Tobi
February 5, 2019
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International Relations
Diplomacy
Geopolitics

This Policy Brief attempts to analyze the rapprochement between Egypt and Israel in the context of geopolitical changes  in the region. The analysis is divided into two parts with the aim of demonstrating the bases of rapprochement. The first part looks at the rapprochement around important discoveries of gas in the Mediterranean and the second part is about the military cooperation between the two countries in Sinai. More broadly, this Policy Brief contextualizes this relationship in a broader historical and geopolitical context: that of the evolution of geopolitical rivalries in the Middle East.

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