Brief Analysis
Join us for a webcast exploring the emergence of the Red Sea region as a distinct theater for American economic and security interests. Watch live starting at 12:00 noon EDT on Thursday, April 15, 2021.
As the grounding of the
Ever Given tanker starkly showed, events in the Red Sea can have outsize or unexpected global effects. A source of food and water security for the region’s biggest players, the sea also holds tremendous economic and strategic potential for the United States, China, and other external powers. At the same time, it struggles with deep problems such as political fragility, massive migration, smuggling, and war. Even so, Washington has not yet internalized it as a distinct, emerging region, instead remaining bound by existing diplomatic and military seams.