Shaping Lebanon's Borderlands

ISBN: 9781784532536 出版年：2015 页码：305 Daniel Meier Bloomsbury Publishing

Regional struggles, wars and local confrontatiothe 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. Tof these actors the Palestinian refugees and their armed resistance, the Islamic Shi i movement Hizbullah, and the UN local mission (UNIFIand shaped the place, and in turn operating in this borderland has affected their identities. Based on Daniel Meier s extensive fieldwork in the region, thinterviews 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 major Middle Eastern confrontations of tcentury."