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Sinajské bezpečnostní souvislosti
Sinai: The Contexts of Security

Author(s): Libor Kutěj
Subject(s): International relations/trade, Security and defense, Inter-Ethnic Relations
Published by: Univerzita obrany - Centrum bezpečnostních a vojenskostrategických studií
Keywords: Egypt; Israel; Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty; the Sinai Peninsula; Demilitarization of Sinai; Bedouins; Multinational Force and Observers; Terrorism; Salafism; Militant Islamist Groups

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with contemporary security situation in the Sinai Peninsula. Attention is paid to certain aspects that form the local negative trends in security developments and their mutual interconnection, as a part of social movements after the events of the so-called Arab Spring and the consequences of the Egyptian Lotus Revolution that have a cardinal influence for both the deployments of Egyptian Army and the security sector in this territory. The opening part of this article is a brief historical excursion into the peace agreement between Egypt and Israel that arranges the special status of the Sinai as a demilitarized area and the adjustment of social-economic reality of the Bedouin population performing decisive influence for described situation.

  • Issue Year: 22/2013
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 58-70
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Czech