Shaping Lebanon's borderlands : armed resistance and international intervention in South Lebanon
Daniel Meier (Author)
- xiii, 290 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
- Library of modern Middle East studies, 176 .
List of illustrations List of abbreviations Note on transliteration Acknowledgments Introduction: South Lebanon as a vantage point Part I: Struggles over the borderland 1. The Fida'iyyin in Lebanon: armed struggle, ideology and belonging 2. The struggle for the South: Israeli occupation and Lebanese resistance 3. Hizbullah: resistance as an identity and as a means Part II: The borderland's narratives 4. Ordering the borderland: Hizbullah's social-political and cultural strategy 5. Crossing/bypassing the border: Palestinian civil resistance (sumund) 6. Hegemony over geography: UNIFIL and the drawing of the blue line 7. Pending issues: sovereignty at stake on maritime and aerial borders Conclusion: South Lebanon as a regional issue Notes Bibliography Index