MICHAEL WOLDEMARIAM: THE RED SEA CORRIDOR IN AN ERA OF GLOBAL CHANGE

The Red Sea region is among the world’s most strategic maritime corridors, vital to global trade and naval access to the Western Indian Ocean and broader Indo-Pacific. It’s also an increasingly volatile geographic zone, beset by an array of challenges that threaten the security and prosperity of littoral countries and much of the international community. These include Great and Middle power competition; economic and demographic pressures; rapid ecological change; and weakening states and the proliferation of violent non-state actors.