A Battlefield in the Eastern Mediterranean: LIBYA.

Byline: Assoc Prof. Haktan BAdegRSEL, Asst. Prof. Nahid MALAZAdegZAdeg

Realism loves war, war creates monsters, monsters harm innocent people, then innocent people turn into monster

The Great Game Continue at the Mediterranean

The south-west of Eurasia, the Eastern Mediterranean, has great geostrategic importance where all kinds of commercial materials coming through the Silk Road were transported from the Eastern Mediterranean.

Therefore, this region is now the interest of all power centers and terrorist groups. However, the Eastern Mediterranean has turned into a complete chaos geography today. Especially after the 1990s Soviet collapse and the unilateral interventions of the USA and the Western world, the most fertile lands of the world, from Jabal-olTariq to Afghanistan, were irrigated with blood. According to UN reports, ten million people died in conflict over thirty years. One of the biggest losses here is the disappearance of tourism revenues.

After World War II, in the bipolar balance system tourism had become a major source of revenue for Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Libya and Morocco off the eastern Mediterranean coast. Alexandria, Casablanca, Marrakech have always the greatest share of world tourism potential. In general, tourism's revenues had a significant place in the economies of under developing countries. However, after 1990, the US destroyed societies, countries and economies with the New World System' project. Adegn the beginning the Western project, launched in 2001, "Arab Spring" , was for the liberation of socalled oppressed societies. Peoples would be freed from dictators and encountered democracy.

But this was a western perspective. Because these societies, have their own deep cultural features therefore the inputs created with the Western logic would be counterproductive here. That's what happened. The Arab Spring has brutally hit North Africa and the Middle East. Three geographies have descended into chaos. Libya, Yemen and Syria.

In all three countries, civil wars, asylum-seeking peoples, al-Qaedabased terrorism continues and does not seem to end. The subject of this article is " No one is authorized to order. No one is obliged to obey." The logic of examination the events that occurred in Libya is within the framework of the neorealist theory. This article will try to answer the question of "why developments in Libya since 2011 have a substantial importance for the people of Eurasia".

The reasons for the...