The dismantling of an old crooked order and the makings of a New Great Game....
The West's era of worldwide supremacy is coming to an end. Nowhere is this more evident than in the Middle East. Messy wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and enduring economic hardships at home have weakened western capacity to project power globally....
So after centuries of naval domination of the region's waters, the West faces the rising tides of indigenous control all around the Indian Ocean rim. New economic giants emerge to the East and come to this key region with healthy appetites for resources and overflowing pocketbooks. While the Arab masses rise up and make themselves heard, toppling tyrants and potentates one after the other. In the wake of these uprising, few certainties remain. But one thing is clear: the West no longer dictates outcomes.
With fresh-from-the-ground footage and testimony from experts and actors in the region, this documentary charts these murky new waters and deciphers how the disparate events occurring on land in such places as Lebanon, Bahrain, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Yemen or at sea in the Red Sea, the MED. Sea, Gulf of Aden and Persian Gulf are all part of the same story, - one of the slow dismantling of an old order and of the makings of a New Great Game....
So after centuries of naval domination of the region's waters, the West faces the rising tides of indigenous control all around the Indian Ocean rim. New economic giants emerge to the East and come to this key region with healthy appetites for resources and overflowing pocketbooks. While the Arab masses rise up and make themselves heard, toppling tyrants and potentates one after the other. In the wake of these uprising, few certainties remain. But one thing is clear: the West no longer dictates outcomes.
With fresh-from-the-ground footage and testimony from experts and actors in the region, this documentary charts these murky new waters and deciphers how the disparate events occurring on land in such places as Lebanon, Bahrain, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Yemen or at sea in the Red Sea, the MED. Sea, Gulf of Aden and Persian Gulf are all part of the same story, - one of the slow dismantling of an old order and of the makings of a New Great Game....
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