Atlas of the Near East State Formation and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1918-2010

The original French version of this atlas was completed during summer 2011, after four years of intense work to enable this so Near, and at the same time, so complex East to be made intelligible. When the Atlas du Proche-Orient arabe was published the Syrian conflict was only just starting. Neither in the original version, nor in the present English translation, is the on-going conflict in Syria chartered. The present volume should therefore be seen as an inventory of facts and processes in the Near East prior to the Syrian conflict. Up until the Syrian conflict, the Arab-Israeli conflict was the major geopolitical process in the region, even if it has been alleviated in recent times. Since the fijirst Arab-Israeli war from 1948–1949, it has contributed to putting a strain on the region’s geography, as this was the major geopolitical process. Since 2011, the Near East has been clearly influenced by other dynamic geopolitics.