%0 Journal Article 
%A Gómez O'Brien, Charles
%T Gibraltar – Military Fortress or City or Both?
%D 2023
%@ 2444-7382
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10498/32008
%X Looking at Gibraltar today, its commercial port, tourism, finance centre
and its very active political class, one could easily forget just how influential,
if not determinative, British military interests are. Therefore, I would like to
highlight just how much Gibraltar remains a military base, and how this has
historically interfaced with civilian and commercial interests.
So the question today is whether Gibraltar is a Monaco or a Rota, or an
unusual combination of both. In times of peace, civilian and commercial
interests have prevailed, but, for some years now Anglo-American policy has
suggested that defence is coming to the forefront worldwide. In January 2024
the drums of war were banging louder not just in Ukraine and Israel but also
in the Red Sea, the Baltic, and the South China Sea
%~ Universidad de Cádiz