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From: Renaud Detalle [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 02 May 2001 15:52
Subject: int-boundaries list

I am pleased to have joined the list and I would like to introduce
myself to the other subscribers. My name is Renaud Detalle, I am French
and I studied history and political science. I have lived and worked in
Yemen for more than 10 years, that is ever since the country was united
including the short two-month war on 1994 when an attempt at redividing
the country was crushed. I have witnessed the completion of all of
Yemen's borders with Oman (1992), with Eritrea (1998-1999) following a
series of armed clashes from 1995 onward and lately with Saudi Arabia in
2000. In the latter case actual
demarcation has yet to take place.

I am currently an associate researcher at the French Research Centre in
Yemen which also covers Oman, Saudi Arabia and Eritrea. I undertake
numerous consultancy assignments with donor organizations, the World
Bank being my main employer. As part of my assignments with the WB I
supervise two projects in Djibouti.

In 1998 at the request of the Conflict Prevention Network managed by the
German Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, I supervised the preparation
of a report for the European Commission about the Saudi-Yemeni border
dispute and
its wider political, social and economic implications. The 6-author
study was published in 2000 as a partly updated book:
Tensions in Arabia: The Saudi-Yemeni Fault Line Renaud Detalle (ed.)

The book can be ordered directly with the German publisher
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I recently wrote a short article in French dealing with Yemen's external
borders and internal administrative boundaries with a bibliography that
can be accessed on the website of the French Centre:
http://www.univ-aix.fr/cfey/chronic/detalle00.html

Beyond Yemen's and Arabian borders I am also interested in general
issues of boundary making, conflict prevention, migration and
development. I follow with particular interest ongoing developments in
the Horn of Africa region: issues of maritime borders off Somalia
(Puntland and Somaliland) and the current efforts to settle the
Ethiopian-Eritrean border.