Overview
- Explores the history of Syria’s borders and boundaries
- Documents the geographical and political imaginaries of non-state actors
- Investigates the perceptual boundaries resulting from the conflict, and how they materialized in space
Part of the book series: Mobility & Politics (MPP)
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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.
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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From the Mandate to Assad’s Dynasty: Constructing, Contesting, and Legitimizing Syrian Borders (1920–2011)
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Struggling for the Borderlands: The Syrian Revolution (2011) and Its Aftermath
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Imagining and Manufacturing the Borders: Non-state Actors and Their Representations of Syrian Territory (2011–2017)
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Reviews
“This book is not only for specialist readers with a specific academic interest; it may also give general readers interested in Syria a valuable overview of some of the complexities of Syrian border issues. … It is perhaps the first book to provide a truly knowledgeable overview of the subject, both historically and at the present time. … this book provides a much-needed overview of Syrian border issues, and is recommended reading for anyone interested in the topic.” (Nerouz Satik, European Review of International Studies ERIS, Vol. 8 (2), 2021)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Matthieu Cimino is a Fellow at the Paris Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS) and a Teacher at Sciences Po and La Sorbonne, France. Formerly, he was a Marie-Skɫodowska Curie researcher at the University of Oxford (Oriental Studies, St Antony’s College, 2016-2018), UK, and an associate researcher at the Moshe Dayan Center, Israel.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Syria: Borders, Boundaries, and the State
Editors: Matthieu Cimino
Series Title: Mobility & Politics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44877-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-44876-9Published: 14 June 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-44879-0Published: 14 June 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-44877-6Published: 13 June 2020
Series ISSN: 2731-3867
Series E-ISSN: 2731-3875
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVIII, 296
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations
Topics: International Relations Theory, Middle Eastern Politics, Citizenship, Migration