State Frontiers: Borders and Boundaries in the Middle East (Culture and Society in Western and Central Asia)

State Frontiers......Page 2
Contents\r......Page 6
List of Maps......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 10
1\rINTRODUCTION......Page 14
Hatay\ras an Example......Page 15
Political Boundaries and Territories......Page 20
Borders: Terms and Concepts......Page 22
Methodological Remarks......Page 30
The Cases: Turkey and Syria......Page 33
Synchrony and Anti-diachrony......Page 34
Practices and Transgressions......Page 35
Discourses and Difference......Page 38
Afterthoughts......Page 39
I\rBorders and Boundaries: Practices and Transgressions......Page 44
2 DIVIDING PAST AND PRESENT. The \'Green Line\' in Cyprus 1974-2003......Page 46
A Plurality\rof Frontiers......Page 49
Borders with Great Britain......Page 52
Legal and Illegal Borders with Turkey......Page 53
Peaceful\rTransgressions......Page 58
Notes:......Page 61
3 TRADE ACROSS BORDERS. Views from Aleppo......Page 66
Trade across Borders......Page 70
Turkish-Syrian Relations......Page 76
Borders, Boundaries and Transgressions......Page 82
4\rMANAGING IDENTITIES AMONG EXPATRIATE BUSINESSMEN ACROSS THE SYRIAN-LEBANESE BOUNDARY......Page 88
When Syrian Businessmen Fled to Lebanon......Page 92
Exile and Settlement......Page 93
Deepening the Political Divide......Page 99
The Production of a Regional Space......Page 104
Old and New Syrian Business in Lebanon......Page 105
A\rNew Regionalism?......Page 108
Notes:......Page 111
5 DEFENDING THROUGH VIOLATION. Ankara\'s Contradictory Strategies over the Turkish-Iraqi Border......Page 114
The Settlement of the Turkish-Iraqi Border......Page 119
Violation of Iraqi Territory......Page 121
Involvement with the Iraqi Kurds......Page 124
Maintaining the Border......Page 125
The End of Saddam Hussein\'s Regime......Page 129
Concluding Remarks......Page 130
Notes:......Page 131
II Borders and Boundaries: Discourses and Difference......Page 134
6 TRACING THE BOUNDARIES. From Colonial Dream to National Propaganda......Page 136
Colonial Imaginations......Page 137
Early Nationalist Imaginations......Page 140
Boundaries in Khitat al-Sham......Page 143
National Imaginations......Page 147
Conclusion......Page 150
Notes:......Page 151
7\rHATAY JOINS THE MOTHERLAND......Page 154
Ataturk, Cumhuriyet and Hatay......Page 155
The Coverage of Hatay in Cumhuriyet 1998-2003......Page 158
The Porous Border......Page 159
Conclusion......Page 169
Notes:......Page 170
8 THE OCTOBER 1998 TURKISH-SYRIAN CRISIS IN ARAB MEDIA......Page 172
Arab-Turkish Relations and the October 1998 Crisis......Page 174
Syrian-Turkish Relations and the October 1998 Crisis......Page 175
The October 1998 Crisis in Four Arab Daily Newspapers......Page 177
Descriptions of\rSyria and Turkey......Page 182
What Was the Outcome of the Crisis and Who Stood to Gain from It?......Page 187
Four Papers\' Coverage of the Crisis: A Coherent Picture?......Page 189
Significance of the Coverage of the Atab Press......Page 191
Notes:......Page 193
III Afterthoughts......Page 198
9 IN SEARCH OF DRACULA. Or, Cultures in Dialogue......Page 200
Notes:......Page 210
10 WHOSE BORDERS? Some Empirical and Theoretical Afterthoughts......Page 212
Discourses and Practices......Page 213
Nation-State Borders and Teritory in the Near East......Page 214
The Extremism afthe Nation-State Boundary......Page 215
The Difficulty of the Nation-State Boundary......Page 218
State Frontiers, Nation Borders......Page 219
State Boundaries and Family......Page 220
Ottomanism as a Political Ideology or a Way of Living......Page 222
Straddlers and States: Whose Borders?......Page 223
Memory and Translation......Page 225
Notes:......Page 226
Bibliography......Page 228
Notes on Contributors......Page 244
Index......Page 246