{"id":206,"date":"2008-03-09T02:21:26","date_gmt":"2008-03-09T06:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/mesh\/2008\/03\/geography_of_chaos\/"},"modified":"2008-06-28T07:44:07","modified_gmt":"2008-06-28T11:44:07","slug":"geography_of_chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/2008\/03\/geography_of_chaos\/","title":{"rendered":"Geography of chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>From MESH Admin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This past November, <a href=\"http:\/\/mondediplo.com\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Le Monde diplomatique<\/em><\/a> published a map (in English) entitled &#8220;Geography of Chaos,&#8221; illustrating conflicts in the Middle East. The map shows major conflicts; areas of high tension; states or territories at war, in fragmentation, or lacking central authority; arrows indicating the possible spread of chaos; states aligned with the United States; U.S. and British military presence; and energy reserves and strategic passages. Click on the map image below for a full view (a pdf file will open).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/mondediplo.com\/maps\/IMG\/pdf\/LMDnov07_Middle_East-2.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mondediplo.com\/maps\/IMG\/jpg\/chaos.jpg\" height=\"296\" width=\"384\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From MESH Admin This past November, Le Monde diplomatique published a map (in English) entitled &#8220;Geography of Chaos,&#8221; illustrating conflicts in the Middle East. The map shows major conflicts; areas of high tension; states or territories at war, in fragmentation, or lacking central authority; arrows indicating the possible spread of chaos; states aligned with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1620,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1873,1910],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-maps"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1620"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}