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Contested frontiers in the Syria-Lebanon-Israel region : cartography, sovereignty, and conflict

Title: Contested frontiers in the Syria-Lebanon-Israel region : cartography, sovereignty, and conflict / Asher Kaufman.
Author: Kaufman, Asher.
Publication: Washington, D.C : Woodrow Wilson Center Press ; Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, [2014]

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Description

xv, 281 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm

Summary

Analyzes the geopolitical causes of conflict and prospects for resolution, assesses implications of the impasse over economic zones in the eastern Mediterranean where Israel, Lebanon, Cyprus, and Turkey all have claims, and reflects on the meaning of borders and frontiers today.

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction : the formation of the tri-border region, 1918-1924 -- Colonial mapping -- Mapping the mandates -- After independence -- The United Nations : mapping, mediating, peacekeeping, 1949-2000 -- Cartographic wars : the Israeli withdrawal from south Lebanon and beyond -- The making of the tri-border region, 1924-1949 -- During and between wars, 1949-1973 -- Fatahland : how Lebanon became a frontier state -- Whose water is this? : boundaries and hydropolitics -- Crossing boundaries : the trans-Arabian pipeline and the Arab-Israeli conflict -- A fabricated border quandary -- The Shebaa farms, Hizbullah, and Lebanese sovereignty -- Joha's nail? : Israel and the Shebaa farms -- Resolving the dispute? : the United Nations in the tri-border region, 2000-2010.

ISBN

9781421411675
1421411679

LCCN

2013017949

OCLC

ocn844789702
844789702
SCSB-14415585

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library