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Book SynopsisHe 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.
Trade ReviewMore scholars will probably re-examine the dramatic vicissitudes that have transpired in the tri-border region in the near future. Kaufman's exhaustive research will serve as an important resource for all of them. -- Mori Ram Antipode The main contribution of this work is its rich empirical quality. To shed light on the struggle over borders, the author has consulted American, British, French, Israeli, and United Nations (UN) documents, along with some Arabic material. The book is theoretically informed, drawing on the academic literature of subjects such as border conflicts, sovereignty, borderlands, and state formation without necessarily seeking to contribute substantially to the development of theories... The work's painstaking attention to detail makes it extraordinarily valuable for scholars of Israel-Lebanese-Syrian relations and essential for those interested in border disputes between these countries. -- James R Stocker H-Diplo A meticulously detailed, carefully written account of the geopolitics of a very small but highly contested area... The construction of the book unfolds like an elegant mathematical proof, in which the reader is shown how a led to b and then to c, and how a sequence of various elements, piled on top of one another in chronological succession, have led to this apparently insignificant area becoming a major point of contestation in the Arab-Israeli conflict. -- Peter Sluglett American Historical Review
Table of ContentsList of Maps and Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Mapping the Tri-Border Region
1. Colonial Mapping
2. Mapping the Mandates
3. After Independence
4. The United Nations: Mapping, Mediating, and Peacekeeping, 1949–2000
5. Cartographic Wars: The Israeli Withdrawal from South Lebanon and Beyond
Part II: Borders, Boundaries, and Frontiers, 1924-1982
6. The Making of the Tri-Border Region, 1924–1949
7. During and Between Wars: 1949–1973
8. Fatahland: How Lebanon Became a Frontline State
9. Whose Water Is This? Boundaries and Hydropolitics
10. Crossing Boundaries: The Trans-Arabian Pipeline and the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Part III: The Shebaa Farms Dispute and Beyond
11. A Fabricated Border Quandary?
12. The Shebaa Farms, Hizbullah, and Lebanese Sovereignty
13. Joha's Nail? Israel and the Shebaa Farms
14. Resolving the Dispute? The United Nations in the Tri-Border Region, 2000–2010
Conclusion: On Cartography, Sovereignty, and Conflict
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
