Syria: Borders, boundaries, and the state

by Cimino, Matthieu

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Title Statements

Full title :Syria: Borders, boundaries, and the state. / Matthieu Cimino.

Summary

This book explores the history of Syria?s borders and boundaries, from their creation (1920) until the civil war (2011) and their contestation by the Islamic State or the Kurdish movement. The volume?s main objective is to reconsider the ?artificial? character of the Syrian territory and to reveal the processes by which its borders were shaped and eventually internalized by the country?s main actors. Based on extensive archival research, the book first documents the creation and stabilization of Syrian borders before and during the mandates period (nineteenth century to 1946), studying Ottoman and French territorialization strategies but also emphasizing the key role of the borderlands in this process. In turn, it investigates the perceptual boundaries resulting from the conflict, and how they materialized in space. Lastly, it explores the geographical and political imaginaries of non-state actors (PYD, ISIS) that emerged from the war.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2020.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Springer International Publishing
Place of Publication:Cham
Language:eng
Publication Date:2020.

The Physical Object

Description:296 p.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9783030448769, 3030448762
oclc:on1198093788
LC Classification:JA
Dewey Decimal:320

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part 1: From the Mandate to Assads Dynasty: Constructing, Contesting, and Legitimizing Syrian Borders (1920-2011) -- Chapter 2. Drawing a line in the sand? Another (hi)story of borders -- Chapter 3. The Turkish-Syrian border and politics of difference in Turkey and Syria (1921-1939) -- Chapter 4. Syrias internal boundaries during the French Mandate: Control and Contestation -- Chpter 5. « The Country should unite first »: Pan-Arabism, State and Territory in Syria under the Baath rules -- Part 2: Struggling for the Borderlands: the Syrian Revolution (2011) and its Aftermath -- Chapter 6. Hizbullahs borderlands strategy: from identity shaping to the nation-State re-ordering -- Chapter 7. Spatialization of Ethno-Religious and Political Boundaries at the Turkish-Syrian Border -- Chapter 8. Dayr al-Zur From Revolution to Isis: Local Networks, Hybrid Identities, And Outside Authorities -- Part 3: Imagining and Manufacturing the Borders: Non-State Actors and their Representations of Syrian Territory (2011-2017) -- Chapter 9. The Oppositions Three Territories -- Chapter 10. Sunni Islamists: From Syria to the Umma, and back -- Chapter 11. The Complex and Dynamic …

Subjects

Citizenship Emigration and immigration Émigration et immigration international relations Middle East -- Politics and government Relations internationales