Rethinking State and Border Formation in the Middle East: Turkish-Syrian-Iraqi Borderlands, 1921-46

Jordi Tejel

book: Rethinking State and Border Formation in the Middle East

Open Access Published by Edinburgh University Press 2023

Rethinking State and Border Formation in the Middle East

Turkish-Syrian-Iraqi Borderlands, 1921-46

Jordi Tejel

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781399503679

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While the wars in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Yemen, alongside the establishment of the so-called "Islamic Caliphate" have brought the debate about the crisis of the territorial nation-state in the Middle East once again to the fore, this issue cannot be simply understood as the logical consequence of either an imported political construction or the purported artificiality of Middle Eastern borders. Instead, the process of state formation in the region has been a complicated course that involved different institutional traditions, managing societies marked by varying degrees of political loyalty to central power, and dealing with colonial interference. Rethinking State and Border Formation in the Middle East seeks to disentangle some of these complexities by proposing both a decentred and dialectic approach. Taking its cue from the bourgeoning field of borderland studies and a variety of historical sub-disciplines, this monograph pays attention to the circulation of people, goods, diseases and ideas as well as to the everyday encounters between a wide range of state and non-state actors in the borderlands laying between Turkey, Syria and Iraq. The goal is to provide a much more holistic yet finely-grained understanding of the formation of the territorial state in the interwar Middle East.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
FIGURES Publicly Available Download PDF	vi
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Open Access Download PDF	1
1 Networks of Violence in the Shatterzones of the Post-Ottoman Middle East Open Access Download PDF	35
2 Refugees, Borders and Identity Boundaries Open Access Download PDF	72
3 Cross-Border Infringements: Smugglers, Criminals and Fugitives Open Access Download PDF	123
4 Interstate Cooperation Against Diseases and Plagues and its Limits Open Access Download PDF	161
5 Railroads, Uneven Mobilities and Frail States Open Access Download PDF	200
6 Irredentism in a Context of Global Uncertainty Open Access Download PDF	239
7 De-Bordering and Re-Bordering Middle Eastern States Open Access Download PDF	277
Conclusion Open Access Download PDF	315
Bibliography Open Access Download PDF	328
INDEX Open Access Download PDF	368

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 376
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- Other: 4 black and white illustrations, 4 black and white maps
Keywords: Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies

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Published: May 19, 2023
ISBN: 9781399503679