Contested frontiers in the Syria-Lebanon-Israel region : cartography, sovereignty, and conflict / Asher Kaufman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kaufman, Asher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Israel-Arab Border Conflicts, 1949-.

Boundaries.

Israel--Boundaries--Lebanon.

Israel.

Lebanon--Boundaries--Israel.

Lebanon.

Israel--Boundaries--Syria.

Syria--Boundaries--Israel.

Syria.

Physical Description:

xv, 281 pages ; 26 cm

regular print

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Woodrow Wilson Center Press ; Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2014]

Summary:

Contested Frontiers in the Syria-Lebanon-Israel Region considers one of the flash points of the Middle East-a region of roughly 100 square kilometers where Syria, Lebanon, and Israel come together guerrilla warfare in the 1960s and 1970s and of ongoing Hezbollah confrontations with Israel since 2000. At stake are rural villages who lives in one country but identify as belonging to another, sources of the Jordon River and part of the historically significant Mount Hermon, and other geographic and man-made points of contention. Asher Kaufman uses French, British, American, and Israeli archives; Lebanese and Syrian primary sources; interviews with borderland residents and with UN and U.S. officials; and a historic collection of maps. He analyzes the geopolitical causes of conflict and prospects for resolution, assesses 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. Book jacket.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781421411675

1421411679

OCLC:

875915903

Publisher Number:

99956944713