State Frontiers : Borders and Boundaries in the Middle East

Inga. Brandell
Bok · Engelsk · 2006 · Electronic books.

Medvirkende	Brandell, Inga.
Utgitt	London : : I.B.Tauris, , 2006.
Omfang	1 online resource (248 p.)
Opplysninger	Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; List of Maps; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; Part I: Borders and Boundaries - Practices and Transgressions; 2. Dividing Past and Present: The 'Green Line' in Cyprus 1974-2003; 3. Trade Across Borders: Views from Aleppo; 4. Managing Identities Among Expatriate Businessmen; 5. Defending Through Violation: Ankara's Contradictory Strategies over the Turkish-Iraqi Border; Part II: Borders and Boundaries - Discourses and Difference; 6. Tracing the Boundaries: From Colonial Dream to National Propaganda; 7. Hatay Joins the Motherland. - 8. The October 1998 Turkish-Syrian Crisis in Arab MediaPart III: Afterthoughts; 9. In Search of Dracula, or Cultures in Dialogue; 10. Whose Borders? Some Empirical and Theoretical Afterthoughts; Bibliography; Notes on Contributors; Index. - Do borders still define the limits of states? How do communities change when a border is put between them? Is the physical border more important than the conceptual boundary? In recent times, the question of borders in the Middle East has assumed an importance unknown since the collapse of the Ottoman empire. In this fresh examination of the issue, Inga Brandell draws together a variety of disciplinary approaches, and takes the classic debates forward into the 21st century. _x000D_Casting its net wide from the Anatolian plateau to the mountains of Cyprus, State Frontiers brings a number of key
Emner	Middle East - Boundaries Middle East - Social conditions Grenseområder Grenser Vis mer... History & Archaeology Irak Kypros Libanon Midtøsten Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East Syria Tyrkia grenser statsgrenser midt-østen identitet nasjonalitet vold fedreland
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Dewey	956
ISBN	1845110765. - 9781845110765