... the hopes of ending the longstanding French threat to Britain's colonies, successfully destroyed Napoleon's fleet at Abukir, off the coast of Alexandria. However, the British, after this battle, only provided a military presence in the region, leaving the formal roles of government to the loosely Ottoman government under the rising leader, Muhammad Ali. Credited with the modernization of Egypt: its ... military, its transportation system, and its agricultural products, Muhammad Ali clearly threatened the Ottoman Empire's role in Egypt, expanding into Sudan and annexing it as a possession...

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... ambiguous concept and that a state  (or its leaders and citizens) believes itself secure when it fears that nothing adverse can be done to it by other states or by other foreign non-state actors."" According to this definition, after the Second World War the main threat to international security was identified with the interstate-armed conflicts in the traditional ... military sense. This concept was underlined also by the Charter of the United Nations, created in 1945 as the main objective to maintain international peace and security. In fact, in the ... "" can include a large number...

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