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June 3, 2026The Journal of North African StudiesOpen Access

Reconceptualising the red sea neighbourhood: Bab-el-Mandeb, maritime space, and regional boundaries

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JSJessica Kate SimondsCPCharles Duncan Pearson

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Overview

Geopolitical analysis demonstrates how maritime corridors govern movement across North Africa and West Asia, highlighting the Red Sea as a critical space of regional formation.

Key Points

  • To reconceptualize the Red Sea as an interregional geopolitical space connecting North Africa and West Asia by challenging land-centric models of regional boundaries.
  • Applied a hybrid analytical framework integrating International Relations and Political Geography centered on spatiality, mobility, circulation, and infrastructure.
  • Evaluated empirical maritime cases across the Red Sea corridor, including Yemen-related insecurity, Gulf state coastal engagements, Djibouti's hub role, Ethiopian maritime access, and piracy governance.
  • Demonstrated that regional security dynamics and regional order emerge primarily through governing maritime movement and chokepoints rather than territorial enclosure.
  • Identified that localized geopolitical developments gain interregional significance when situated within critical maritime infrastructures linking the Arabian Peninsula, Nile Valley, and Horn of Africa.

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Simonds et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a8af3b97239707559bea0bbhttps://doi.org/10.1080/13629387.2026.2683724
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