The mentioned area is also surrounded by a rainbow Afro-Asian crises stretching from Kashmir in the Sahel through Yemen and the Arab-Israeli conflict. The authors emphasize that the "Middle East is organized around a center of gravity formed by Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel and Palestine (p.28)". Thus, he became the parade ground of the great powers and also regional actors. Old geopolitical logic reposition these territories "under the sign of Mars" with a proliferation of litigation (Cyprus, Palestine, Iraq, Kurdistan, Western Sahara), making it a true "epicenter of world geopolitics." The tilting of the regional axis took place in 1920 with the disastrous Treaty of Sevres. The telescoping of the Franco-British rivalries and nationalistic Arab awakening, Kurdish, Jewish, Turkish lasting boulversèrent area. The authors present the ideologues in vogue (Zionism, Islamism and Baathist and Nasserite panarabismes) who affectèrent.
It will be understood that this book gives a nice spot to physical geography and geopolitics. With numerous quotations from a wide range of Fernand Braudel Lamartine through the geographer Xavier Planhol and TE Lawrence, the Geopolitics of the Middle East and North Africa includes color maps, a glossary, terms of Arab, Hebrew and Turkish and the Annexes, integrated into the body of the work, supports, illustrate and explain the demonstrations. In short, this is an excellent textbook pleasant to read. To be enjoyed without moderation!
GFT.
