Daniel Meier

Shaping Lebanon's Borderlands

Armed Resistance and International Intervention in South Lebanon

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Regional struggles, wars and local confrontations have marked the south of Lebanon since the end of the 1960s. They have transformed this marginalized and rural region into a battlefield and redefined the relationships between international, regional and local actors. The most recent of these actors the Palestinian refugees and their armed resistance, the Islamic Shi i movement Hizbullah, and the UN local mission (UNIFIL) have marked and shaped the place, and in turn operating in this borderland has affected their identities. Based on Daniel Meier s extensive fieldwork in the region, this book offers interviews with militants, his own observations of this conflict-ridden and dangerous region as well as incisive political analysis concerning the armed militias operating in the area. It is through this in-depth examination of the southern borderlands of Lebanon that Meier sheds new light on some of the major Middle Eastern confrontations of the last half a century."

Produktdetails

• Library of Modern Middle East Studies
• Verlag: I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd.
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 137mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 518g
• ISBN-13: 9781784532536
• ISBN-10: 1784532533
• Artikelnr.: 43029292

Autorenporträt

Daniel Meier is Visiting Fellow of the Centre for Lebanese Studies at the Middle East Centre, St Antony s. He holds a PhD in Development Studies from the Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies (IHEID) in Geneva."

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: South Lebanon as a Vantage Point, 1923-2013 Chapter 1: The
Fedayeen in Lebanon: Armed Struggle, Symbols and Belonging Chapter 2:
Hizbullah: Resistance as an Identity and as a Means Chapter 3: The Struggle
for the South: Israeli Occupation and Lebanese Resistance Chapter 4: Using
the Borderland: Hizbullah's Socio-Political and Cultural Strategy Chapter
5: Crossing/Bypassing the Border: Palestinian Civil Resistance (Sumud)
Chapter 6: Hegemony over Geography: UNIFIL and the Drawing of the Blue Line
Chapter 7: The Pending Issues in the Southern Borderland: Maritime and
Aerial Borders Conclusion