Daniel Meier
Biographic Data
| ID | 3759724 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Meier |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Meier |
| SIGNATURE | MEIER D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1767-1858 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
La région frontalière libano-israélienne: Une Perspective Historique
Introduction. L'Irak aujourd'hui au prisme de ses frontières internes
National audience
Mediterranean in Dis/order: Space, Power, and Identity
Mediterranean in Dis/order reveals the connection between space and politics by examining the role that space has played in insurgencies, conflicts, uprisings, and mobilities in the Mediterranean region. With this approach, the authors are able to challenge well-established beliefs about the power structure of the state across different disciplines (including political science, history, sociology, geography, and anthropology), and its impact on t…
Le Liban: Du mythe phénicien aux périls contemporains
Les Frontières au-delà des cartes: Sécurité, migration, mondialisation
New Border Studies On Israel/Palestine: Review of Two Books
Review essay on The Politics of Maps: Cartographic Constructions of Israel/Palestine by Christine Leuenberger & Izhak Schnell and Penser la Palestine en réseaux by Véronique Bontemps, Nicolas Dot-Pouillard, Jalal al-Husseini & Abaher al-Sakka
Borderlanders of Lebanon: People from the In-between Spaces
This portfolio stems from a research project focusing on the many ways the residents of the border regions of Lebanon, or “borderlanders”, live and perceive the international borders. Funded by the Heinrich Böll Stiftung (Berlin-Beyrouth) and the Institut Convergences Migrations (Paris), this original research was conducted by photographer Hussein Baydoun and researcher Daniel Meier with the aim of visibalizing a category of unseen people: border…
Border security management in the Mena region: Models of nascent and ascendant coordination and cooperation
In-Between Border Spaces in the Levant
In-between spaces in the Levant: Conceptual reflections
In-between border spaces are numerous in the Levant region and are usually of two types: those resulting into buffer zones as a result of demilitarized spaces and those turning as a region under the occupation of a foreign state. But there is a lack of clear theoretical and analytical framework as they stayed somehow understudied territories and spaces that are generally located at the edges of the states and thus are poorly documented and someti…
Les Frontières au-delà des cartes: Sécurité, migration, mondialisation
Les frontières structurent notre espace de mouvement et en même temps constituent des lieux où s’actualisent représentations, identités et pouvoir. Lieux de la mondialisation, elles s’effacent pour favoriser les échanges. Lieux des migrations, elles trient les individus, discriminent et rejettent les indésirables. Lieux barrière contre les épidémies, elles enferment et confinent...Les frontières sont des repères et nous permettent d’appréhender l…
In-Between Border Spaces in the Levant
Disputed territories’ in northern Iraq: The frontiering of in-between spaces
In Iraq, the disputed territories emerged as a key issue between the central government in Baghdad and Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Regional Government, since its recognition as an autonomous entity of the post-Baathist Iraq. Despite a resolution procedure drafted in an article of the new Constitution, approved by the Parliament in 2005, the disputed territories, understood as in-between spaces, knew a process of fragmentation due to a lac…
Enjeux frontaliers et territoriaux au Sahel et au Moyen-Orient
Ce numéro d’Égypte/Monde arabe (EMA) livre la deuxième et dernière partie des actes du colloque international organisé par le CEDEJ à Assouan, en janvier 2017, sur le thème « Frontières et recompositions territoriales au Sahel et au Moyen-Orient ». Son objectif était d’interroger les conséquences spatiales et territoriales des « Printemps » arabes ainsi que la place des espaces frontaliers dans un contexte post 2011. Le moment contestataire amorc…
Penser les frontières au Moyen-Orient et au Sahel: Enjeux et concepts
Cet article entend revenir sur le rapport conceptuel entre l’objet frontière et la région du Moyen-Orient et du Sahel. Il se propose de détailler le champ des études spécialisé sur ces questions, les border studies. Il s’agira de comprendre en quoi les apports conceptuels de ce domaine d’études permettent de systématiser l’étude des frontières dans cette région et on évaluera les enjeux et les limites de ces conceptualisations dans l’aire concern…
Hizbullah's Shaping Lebanon Statehood
Since the end of the civil war in 1990, the Lebanese second Republic has experienced a dual security governance in the southern borderland region. Up to the Syrian military withdrawal in 2005, the territorial and functional ‘areas of limited statehood’ between the State and Hizbullah worked as a cooperation. After the Syrian withdrawal, various forms of cooperation appeared, raising the theoretical interest for the ‘mediated state’ framework. It …
Introduction to the Special Issue: Bordering the Middle East
International audience
Lebanon Facing The Arab Uprisings: Constraints and Adaptation
This book provides an intimate picture of Lebanon, exploring the impacts of the Arab uprisings of 2011 which are deeply affecting Lebanese politics and society. The book examines Lebanon's current iss
Nature and Environmental Education in Early Childhood
With the current expansion of universal preschool and transitional kindergarten and other early childhood programs, as well as national attention to children’s health and issues of planetary sustai
Le Hamas et le monde (2006-2015): La politique étrangère du mouvement islamiste palestinien
Shaping Lebanon’s Borderlands: Armed Resistance and International Intervention in South Lebanon
Regional struggles, wars and local confrontations have marked the 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. The most recent of these actors the Palestinian refugees and their armed resistance, the Islamic Shi’i movement Hizbullah, and the UN local mission (UNIFIL) have marked and shaped t…
Popular Mobilizations in Lebanon: From Anti-System to Sectarian Claims
In Lebanon, the Arab uprising is often analyzed through the lens of the side effects the Syrian uprising had on the country thanks to the massive refugee influx and involvement of Sunni and Shia Lebanese in Syria’s battleground. In fact, popular mobilizations happened prior to and during the current crisis as two different types of effects of the Arab uprisings at large. First, in late 2010 emerged an anti-sectarian movement that brought up an an…
(B)ordering South of Lebanon: Hizbullah's Identity Building Strategy
This paper examines the importance of the Lebanese southern borderland area in the political strategy of Hizbullah's identity building. It highlights how Hizbullah succeeded in its quest to become a major political player in Lebanon by using South Lebanon. The main hypothesis is that this borderland area has been ordered and bordered by Hizbullah to create a common identity among the Lebanese Shi'i population based on a Shi'i religious involvemen…
Shaping Lebanon's Borderlands: Armed Resistance and International Intervention in South Lebanon
The Palestinian Fidâ'i as an Icon of Transnational Struggle: The South Lebanese Experience
How did the Palestinian Resistance build the key transnational figure of the fidâ'i and why did South Lebanon play a major role in this process? Assessing the hypothesis of the ‘Lebanonisation’ of this symbol of the Palestinian national struggle, this article will examine the role and the symbol of the fidâ'i in the context of Lebanon in the 1970s, through an analysis of the actions of the fidâ'iyyn and the values and ethics that fidâ'iyyn were s…
Introduction to the Special Issue: Bordering the Middle East
International audience
(B)ordering South of Lebanon: Hizbullah's Identity Building Strategy
This paper examines the importance of the Lebanese southern borderland area in the political strategy of Hizbullah's identity building. It highlights how Hizbullah succeeded in its quest to become a major political player in Lebanon by using South Lebanon. The main hypothesis is that this borderland area has been ordered and bordered by Hizbullah to create a common identity among the Lebanese Shi'i population based on a Shi'i religious involvemen…
Lebanon: The Refugee Issue and the Threat of a Sectarian Confrontation
This article highlights the many dimensions of the threat that exists nowadays in Lebanon regarding the impact of the Syrian uprising turning into a civil war. To do so, I will firstly focus on the issue of Syrian refugee in Lebanon. Recalling the Syrian-Lebanese complex relationship, the article delves in the collective memory of the Palestinian issue in Lebanon that pops up again as thousands of them are fleeing Syria to seek refuge in Palestin…
Penser la notion de frontière au Moyen-Orient
Le conflit entre al-Qaida et les États-Unis illustre l’évolution de l’art de la guerre à trois niveaux. Premièrement, un acteur non étatique engagé dans un conflit international a étendu la plate-forme de combat, considérant la dissymétrie des forces non comme un facteur dissuasif mais comme une opportunité. Deuxièmement, ce groupe armé dont les membres transcendent les frontières a déclaré la guerre à un État et à ses citoyens comme mesure de ré…
Disputed territories’ in northern Iraq: The frontiering of in-between spaces
In Iraq, the disputed territories emerged as a key issue between the central government in Baghdad and Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Regional Government, since its recognition as an autonomous entity of the post-Baathist Iraq. Despite a resolution procedure drafted in an article of the new Constitution, approved by the Parliament in 2005, the disputed territories, understood as in-between spaces, knew a process of fragmentation due to a lac…
Matrimonial Strategies and Identity Relations between Palestinian Refugees and Lebanese after the Lebanese Civil War
Journal Article Matrimonial Strategies and Identity Relations between Palestinian Refugees and Lebanese after the Lebanese Civil War Get access Daniel Meier Daniel Meier Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID), [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Refugee Studies, Volume 23, Issue 2, June 2010, Pages 111–133, https://doi.org/10.1093/…
Ce qui donne sens à l'interdisciplinarité
In-between spaces in the Levant: Conceptual reflections
In-between border spaces are numerous in the Levant region and are usually of two types: those resulting into buffer zones as a result of demilitarized spaces and those turning as a region under the occupation of a foreign state. But there is a lack of clear theoretical and analytical framework as they stayed somehow understudied territories and spaces that are generally located at the edges of the states and thus are poorly documented and someti…
Popular Mobilizations in Lebanon: From Anti-System to Sectarian Claims
In Lebanon, the Arab uprising is often analyzed through the lens of the side effects the Syrian uprising had on the country thanks to the massive refugee influx and involvement of Sunni and Shia Lebanese in Syria’s battleground. In fact, popular mobilizations happened prior to and during the current crisis as two different types of effects of the Arab uprisings at large. First, in late 2010 emerged an anti-sectarian movement that brought up an an…
Borders, Boundaries and Identity Building in Lebanon: An Introduction
The Middle East is traditionally under-represented in border studies despite the salience of conflicts involving borders or along sectarian boundaries. The case of Lebanon is a good example of such dividing lines referring to identity building. It conveys the importance of thinking about social and political relations in terms of space, which requires thinking simultaneously about both physical (borders) and symbolic (boundaries) divisions. The s…
Alliances et exclusions au Liban: Les mariages libano-palestiniens
L’auteur étudie les effets sociaux et identitaires des unions matrimoniales libano-palestiniennes dans l’après-guerre civile du Liban. Il suppose que l’on peut voir dans ces mariages des formes spécifiques d’intégration des Palestiniens, lesquels se heurtent à une exclusion économique et juridique qui vient s’ajouter à une auto-exclusion de leur propre groupe d’origine. L’article s’intéresse au cadre général des relations sociales et matrimoniale…
Hizbullah's Shaping Lebanon Statehood
Since the end of the civil war in 1990, the Lebanese second Republic has experienced a dual security governance in the southern borderland region. Up to the Syrian military withdrawal in 2005, the territorial and functional ‘areas of limited statehood’ between the State and Hizbullah worked as a cooperation. After the Syrian withdrawal, various forms of cooperation appeared, raising the theoretical interest for the ‘mediated state’ framework. It …
The Palestinian Fidâ'i as an Icon of Transnational Struggle: The South Lebanese Experience
How did the Palestinian Resistance build the key transnational figure of the fidâ'i and why did South Lebanon play a major role in this process? Assessing the hypothesis of the ‘Lebanonisation’ of this symbol of the Palestinian national struggle, this article will examine the role and the symbol of the fidâ'i in the context of Lebanon in the 1970s, through an analysis of the actions of the fidâ'iyyn and the values and ethics that fidâ'iyyn were s…
The South Border: Drawing the Line in Shifting (Political) Sands
What is UNIFIL drawing in south of Lebanon and what does it create? The hypothesis stated here is that by marking a line on the border, UNIFIL is de facto defining a new political geography blurring the limit between Blue Line and borderline. The first part of this paper will recall the UNSCR 425 that helped to identify the Blue Line in 2000 after the Israeli withdrawal. The second part will illustrate with examples the plural dimension of the bo…
Il Libano prima e dopo il 1982
On June 6, 1982 the Israeli Government, headed by Likud leader Menachem Begin, launched the operation "Peace in Galilee" with the aim of thwarting Palestinian resistance in Southern Lebanon and thus protecting Israel's Northern border and towns. On the one hand, the operation evolved into a full scale war with the Israel Defense Forces surrounding Beirut already on June 14; on the other, it intertwined with the ongoing civil war that had seen the…
Ce qui donne sens à l'interdisciplinarité
Penser la notion de frontière au Moyen-Orient
Le conflit entre al-Qaida et les États-Unis illustre l’évolution de l’art de la guerre à trois niveaux. Premièrement, un acteur non étatique engagé dans un conflit international a étendu la plate-forme de combat, considérant la dissymétrie des forces non comme un facteur dissuasif mais comme une opportunité. Deuxièmement, ce groupe armé dont les membres transcendent les frontières a déclaré la guerre à un État et à ses citoyens comme mesure de ré…
Alliances et exclusions au Liban: Les mariages libano-palestiniens
L’auteur étudie les effets sociaux et identitaires des unions matrimoniales libano-palestiniennes dans l’après-guerre civile du Liban. Il suppose que l’on peut voir dans ces mariages des formes spécifiques d’intégration des Palestiniens, lesquels se heurtent à une exclusion économique et juridique qui vient s’ajouter à une auto-exclusion de leur propre groupe d’origine. L’article s’intéresse au cadre général des relations sociales et matrimoniale…
Mariages sur la frontière du groupe national. Normalité et transgressions dans les unions matrimoniales libano-palestiniennes au Liban
Cet article cherche à comprendre ce que se marier veut dire lorsqu’on étudie les relations entre Libanais et Palestiniens dans un contexte où les seconds subissent une marginalisation institutionnelle de la part des premiers. La première partie présente quelques données du phénomène des unions matrimoniales libano-palestiniennes, et cerne de façon générale les variables (telles que la géographie, le niveau social ou l’histoire partagée) qui resso…
L’implantation » comme construction de la présence palestinienne au Liban durant la tutelle syrienne (1989-2005)
Comment a été construite et formulée la question de la présence des réfugiés palestiniens au Liban par la classe politique libanaise dans l’après-guerre civile ? Pour répondre à cette question, l’auteur propose d’étudier la question de l’implantation – al-tawtîn – en montrant l’existence de conditions d’ouverture d’un espace discursif sur cette question, à la faveur des accords de Taëf d’une part et d’autre part en vertu du contexte régional de s…
Matrimonial Strategies and Identity Relations between Palestinian Refugees and Lebanese after the Lebanese Civil War
Journal Article Matrimonial Strategies and Identity Relations between Palestinian Refugees and Lebanese after the Lebanese Civil War Get access Daniel Meier Daniel Meier Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID), [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Refugee Studies, Volume 23, Issue 2, June 2010, Pages 111–133, https://doi.org/10.1093/…
Droz-Vincent Philippe, Le Moyen-Orient, Paris, Le Cavalier Bleu, coll. « idées reçues », 2009, 128 p
Comment parler du Moyen-Orient en 128 pages, format « Que sais-je » ? Que faire pour rendre compte de façon intéressante et pédagogique d’une région pareillement couverte de préjugés en un minimum de mots ? C’est par le biais de la collection « Les idées reçues » que Philippe Droz-Vincent, chercheur confirmé et auteur d’ouvrages pointus sur la région, a décidé de se lancer dans pareil défi. Force est de constater qu’un tel angle d’attaque – abord…
Challand Benoît, Palestinian Civil Society. Foreign donors and the power to promote and exclude, London, Routledge, 2009, 266 p
L’ouvrage de Benoît Challand a pour objet la société civile en tant qu’elle est promue par les institutions internationales. En l’inscrivant dans le contexte palestinien, il se demande si l’aide internationale y a réellement permis le développement d’une telle société civile. L’ouvrage repose donc sur un double enjeu, à la fois théorique et empirique : qu’entendre par « société civile » et comment cerner l’efficacité de sa promotion en Palestine …
Il Libano prima e dopo il 1982
On June 6, 1982 the Israeli Government, headed by Likud leader Menachem Begin, launched the operation "Peace in Galilee" with the aim of thwarting Palestinian resistance in Southern Lebanon and thus protecting Israel's Northern border and towns. On the one hand, the operation evolved into a full scale war with the Israel Defense Forces surrounding Beirut already on June 14; on the other, it intertwined with the ongoing civil war that had seen the…
The South Border: Drawing the Line in Shifting (Political) Sands
What is UNIFIL drawing in south of Lebanon and what does it create? The hypothesis stated here is that by marking a line on the border, UNIFIL is de facto defining a new political geography blurring the limit between Blue Line and borderline. The first part of this paper will recall the UNSCR 425 that helped to identify the Blue Line in 2000 after the Israeli withdrawal. The second part will illustrate with examples the plural dimension of the bo…
Borders, Boundaries and Identity Building in Lebanon: An Introduction
The Middle East is traditionally under-represented in border studies despite the salience of conflicts involving borders or along sectarian boundaries. The case of Lebanon is a good example of such dividing lines referring to identity building. It conveys the importance of thinking about social and political relations in terms of space, which requires thinking simultaneously about both physical (borders) and symbolic (boundaries) divisions. The s…
The Palestinian Fidâ'i as an Icon of Transnational Struggle: The South Lebanese Experience
How did the Palestinian Resistance build the key transnational figure of the fidâ'i and why did South Lebanon play a major role in this process? Assessing the hypothesis of the ‘Lebanonisation’ of this symbol of the Palestinian national struggle, this article will examine the role and the symbol of the fidâ'i in the context of Lebanon in the 1970s, through an analysis of the actions of the fidâ'iyyn and the values and ethics that fidâ'iyyn were s…
Chanson-Jabeur Chantal et Maalouf Monneau May (dir.), Conflits et territoires au Moyen-Orient et au Maghreb, Cahier du GREMAMO, No 21, Paris, l’Harmattan, 2012
Lebanon: The Refugee Issue and the Threat of a Sectarian Confrontation
This article highlights the many dimensions of the threat that exists nowadays in Lebanon regarding the impact of the Syrian uprising turning into a civil war. To do so, I will firstly focus on the issue of Syrian refugee in Lebanon. Recalling the Syrian-Lebanese complex relationship, the article delves in the collective memory of the Palestinian issue in Lebanon that pops up again as thousands of them are fleeing Syria to seek refuge in Palestin…
Popular Mobilizations in Lebanon: From Anti-System to Sectarian Claims
In Lebanon, the Arab uprising is often analyzed through the lens of the side effects the Syrian uprising had on the country thanks to the massive refugee influx and involvement of Sunni and Shia Lebanese in Syria’s battleground. In fact, popular mobilizations happened prior to and during the current crisis as two different types of effects of the Arab uprisings at large. First, in late 2010 emerged an anti-sectarian movement that brought up an an…
(B)ordering South of Lebanon: Hizbullah's Identity Building Strategy
This paper examines the importance of the Lebanese southern borderland area in the political strategy of Hizbullah's identity building. It highlights how Hizbullah succeeded in its quest to become a major political player in Lebanon by using South Lebanon. The main hypothesis is that this borderland area has been ordered and bordered by Hizbullah to create a common identity among the Lebanese Shi'i population based on a Shi'i religious involvemen…
Shaping Lebanon's Borderlands: Armed Resistance and International Intervention in South Lebanon
Shaping Lebanon’s Borderlands: Armed Resistance and International Intervention in South Lebanon
Regional struggles, wars and local confrontations have marked the 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. The most recent of these actors the Palestinian refugees and their armed resistance, the Islamic Shi’i movement Hizbullah, and the UN local mission (UNIFIL) have marked and shaped t…
Lebanon Facing The Arab Uprisings: Constraints and Adaptation
This book provides an intimate picture of Lebanon, exploring the impacts of the Arab uprisings of 2011 which are deeply affecting Lebanese politics and society. The book examines Lebanon's current iss
Nature and Environmental Education in Early Childhood
With the current expansion of universal preschool and transitional kindergarten and other early childhood programs, as well as national attention to children’s health and issues of planetary sustai
Le Hamas et le monde (2006-2015): La politique étrangère du mouvement islamiste palestinien
Enjeux frontaliers et territoriaux au Sahel et au Moyen-Orient
Ce numéro d’Égypte/Monde arabe (EMA) livre la deuxième et dernière partie des actes du colloque international organisé par le CEDEJ à Assouan, en janvier 2017, sur le thème « Frontières et recompositions territoriales au Sahel et au Moyen-Orient ». Son objectif était d’interroger les conséquences spatiales et territoriales des « Printemps » arabes ainsi que la place des espaces frontaliers dans un contexte post 2011. Le moment contestataire amorc…
Penser les frontières au Moyen-Orient et au Sahel: Enjeux et concepts
Cet article entend revenir sur le rapport conceptuel entre l’objet frontière et la région du Moyen-Orient et du Sahel. Il se propose de détailler le champ des études spécialisé sur ces questions, les border studies. Il s’agira de comprendre en quoi les apports conceptuels de ce domaine d’études permettent de systématiser l’étude des frontières dans cette région et on évaluera les enjeux et les limites de ces conceptualisations dans l’aire concern…
Hizbullah's Shaping Lebanon Statehood
Since the end of the civil war in 1990, the Lebanese second Republic has experienced a dual security governance in the southern borderland region. Up to the Syrian military withdrawal in 2005, the territorial and functional ‘areas of limited statehood’ between the State and Hizbullah worked as a cooperation. After the Syrian withdrawal, various forms of cooperation appeared, raising the theoretical interest for the ‘mediated state’ framework. It …
Introduction to the Special Issue: Bordering the Middle East
International audience
Political science (28 works) · Middle East Politics and Society (21 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (19 works) · Sociology (19 works) · Law (17 works) · Politics (14 works) · Law (11 works) · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts (10 works) · Humanities (9 works) · Geography (8 works)