An Atlas of Middle Eastern Affairs [antikvár]

Foreword A generation or more ago, politics could be understood without much knowledge of the lands and peoples it concerned. The Paris Conference, which met in 1919, was characterized by the ignorance of the world's geography shown by those, who participated in it. Even in 1938, the British Prime Minister expressed his lack of knowledge of a country he helped to partition. Such ignorance is no longer permissible or even possible. Politics is related increasingly closely to geography. Events happen somewhere; they are related to the environment amid which they occur and cannot be properly understood apart from it. This atlas of Middle Eastern affairs is intended to help in the understanding of the "where" of current events. It stresses the geographical factors in shaping them and attempts to anticipate the march of politics by surveying the whole of the area to which it relates, not merely the contemporary "hot spots." The authors wish to thank Susan S. Ball for her editorial assistance and Patricia R. Kingsbury for her help in completing the maps. R. C. K. N. J. G. P. Bloomington, Indiana