The Dynamics of Interstate Boundaries

ISBN-13: 9780521898997 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 216 str.

George Gavrilis

Opis

This book explains why some borders deter insurgents, smugglers, bandits, and militants, while most suffer from infiltration and crisis.

Recenzje

'Gavrilis has written a masterful book on a central problem that all modern states face, and yet, about which there is scant research - the protection of shared boundaries. He traces the roots of this problem both geographically and historically, taking us from the disintegrated Ottoman Empire to emergent Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. Along the way, he offers rare and valuable insight into why states often pursue solutions to this problem that undermine their own border security.' Pauline Jones Luong, Brown University

Spis treści

1. The trouble with borders; 2. Four claims about interstate boundaries; 3. Border guards, bandits, and the Ottoman-Greek boundary regime in the nineteenth century; 4. The view from above; 5. State formation and Central Asian peripheries in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries; 6. The view from below; 7. Implications and interventions.