Published October 16th, 2006 by Future Atlas
The Middle East remapped
Ralph Peters recently offered a map of how the Middle East might look if borders were redrawn to better reflect sectarian and ethnic divides. (Click on “Next” under the map, then click on the map to enlarge.)
Among the changes that would unfold in this scenario:
- Kurdistan becomes a large, independent state, at the expense of Turkey, Iraq, and other countries. Says Peters, “A free Kurdistan, stretching from Diyarbakir through Tabriz, would be the most pro-Western state between Bulgaria and Japan.”
- The remainder of Iraq divides into Sunni and Shia states, and the Shia portion unites with Shia areas of Saudi Arabia.
- Saudi Arabia also loses Mecca and Medina to an “Islamic sacred state.”
- Iran loses territory to the Kurds and Arab Shia, and to Baluchistan to the southeast.
- Pakistan is much-diminished, transferring lands to Baluchistan and Afghanistan.
- Afghanistan gains from Pakistan but loses to Baluchistan and Iran.
- “For Israel to have any hope of living in reasonable peace with its neighbors, it will have to return to its pre-1967 borders.”
Peters concludes:
Correcting borders to reflect the will of the people may be impossible. For now. But given time — and the inevitable attendant bloodshed — new and natural borders will emerge.
Ottoman Says
This guy is nuts.
A return to the borders of the Empire of the Abbasids, Ottomans or Safawids is more likely than this drivel.
Oct 16th, 2006 at 9:10 pm
Future Atlas Says
This scenario is quite unlikely in aggregate, but parts of it may come to pass.
Many elements have advocates in the millions.
I would also suggest that further splintering is more likely than unification on the scale of those old empires.
Oct 17th, 2006 at 10:41 pm
Anonmyous Says
In my openion an integrated Pakistan and Afganistan is more likely the outcome.
Possible future maps of the world.
World Map Future 1 – 50 Million Years from now
http://www.scotese.com/future.htm
World Map Future 2 – 10 Years from now
http://www.matrixinstitute.com/futuremaps.html
World Map Future 3 – 100 Years from now
http://www.studentgroups.ucla.edu/enigma/writing/fut-his/images/polit.gif
World Map Future 4 – 200 Years from now
http://www.jiawen.net/worldmap.html
Possible senarious of future wars.
http://www.lonelythinker.com/thought456.html
Dec 28th, 2006 at 5:53 pm
Future Atlas Says
Thanks for these links. Sorry for the delayed post — the antispam software held it up due to all the links.
Dec 31st, 2006 at 11:02 pm
zain Says
PAKISTAN and other islamic countries will in the world for ever and the country which will loss its power is America.(INSHALLAH)
Jan 14th, 2008 at 4:15 am