Shiite Crescent
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Shiite Crescent is used as political and geo-political term to descripe the different countries who's majority is shia or who had a strong shia minority in the population. Is often used to discripe the potential of a cooperation of these countries in the middle east policy.
[edit] literature:
- Vali Nasr: When the Shiites Rise in: Foreign Affairs July/August 2006 pp. 58- 74.
- Asher Susser: Aufgang des schiitischen Halbmonds, in: Internationale Politik, Nr. 9, 61. Jahr, (2006), pp.68-S.74 (german)
[edit] Links:
- Le Monde diplomatique: Die Schiiten und ihr Kampf um Gott (german)
- Deutsche Welle: Die Hisbollah in der arabischen Misstrauensfalle (german)
- Brockhaus: Ulrich Ladurner: Machtpoker am Persischen Golf (german)
- Der Tagesspiegel: Der schiitische Halbmond (german)
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