Municipal boundary conflicts between jewish and arab local authorities in ISRAEL: Geography of administration or geopolitics?

Geografiska Annaler, Series B: Human Geography

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 79-94

  Razin, Eran ^a   Hazan, Anna ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b Local Government Administration   (Israel)

Author keywords

Israel; Jewish Arab conflict; Local government; Municipal boundaries

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL CONFLICT; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; POLITICAL CONFLICT; TERRITORIAL DELIMITATION;

ASIA; EURASIA; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 28444432720     PISSN: 04353684     EISSN: 14680467     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0435-3684.2004.00155.x     Document Type: Review

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