Understanding Life in the Borderlands: Boundaries in Depth and in Motion (Studies in Security and International Affairs)

306 Pages·2010·2.21 MB·English

by  I. William Zartman

UNDERSTANDING LIFE IN THE BORDERLANDS
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SERIES EDITORS
Gary K. Bertsch Howard J. Wiarda
University Professor of Public and Dean Rusk Professor of International Relations
International Aff airs and Director of the and Head of the Department of International
Center for International Trade and Security, Aff airs, University of Georgia
University of Georgia
SERIES ADVISORY BOARD
Pauline H. Baker William J. Long
The Fund for Peace Sam Nunn School of International Aff airs,
Georgia Institute of Technology
Eliot Cohen
Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced Jessica Tuchman Mathews
International Studies, Johns Hopkins Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
University
Scott D. Sagan
Eric Einhorn Center for International Security and
Center for Public Policy and Administration, Cooperation, Stanford University
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Lawrence Scheinman
John J. Hamre Monterey Institute of International Studies,
The Center for Strategic and International CNS-W DC
Studies
David Shambaugh
Josef Joff e The Elliott School of International Aff airs,
Hoover Institution, Institute for International George Washington University
Studies, Stanford University
Jessica Stern
Lawrence J. Korb John F. Kennedy School of Government,
Center for American Progress Harvard University
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UNDERSTANDING LIFE
IN THE BORDERLANDS
Boundaries in Depth
and in Motion
EDITED BY
I. WILLIAM ZARTMAN
The University of Georgia Press
Athens and London
© 2010 by the University of Georgia Press
Athens, Georgia 30602
www. ugapress. org
All rights reserved
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Library of Congress Cataloging- in-Publication Data
Zartman, I. William.
Understanding life in the borderlands : boundaries in depth and in motion / edited by I. William
Zartman.
p. cm. — (Studies in security and international aff airs)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
isbn- 13: 978- 0- 8203- 3385- 4 (hardcover : alk. paper)
isbn- 10: 0- 8203- 3385- 9 (hardcover : alk. paper)
isbn- 13: 978- 0- 8203- 3407- 3 (pbk. : alk. paper)
isbn- 10: 0- 8203- 3407- 3 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Boundaries—Social aspects. 2. Borderlands—Social aspects. I. Zartman, I. William. II. Title.
jc323.z37 2010
306.2—dc22
2009022657
British Library Cataloging- in-Publication Data available
To CAORC and all its AORCs
For their great contribution to interdisciplinary knowledge
And intercultural understanding
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments xi
introduction. Identity, Movement, and Response 1
I. William Zartman, The Johns Hopkins University
Part I. Structures in Evolution
chapter one. Borderland Dynamics in the Era of the Pyramid Builders
in Egypt 21
Miroslav Bárta, Charles University
chapter two. Confl ict and Control on the Ottoman- Greek Border 40
George Gavrilis, University of Texas at Austin
chapter three. Illicit Trade and the Emergence of Albania
and Yemen 58
Isa Blumi, Georgia State University
chapter four. On the Margin of Statehood? State- Society Relations
in African Borderlands 85
Judith Vorrath, Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich
chapter five. Change and Non- change in the U.S.-Mexican Borderlands
after NAFTA 105
David Stea, Jamie Zech, and Melissa Gray, Texas State University– San Marcos
Part II. Identities in Transition
chapter six. Colonialism or Conviviencia in Frankish Cyprus? 133
James G. Schryver, University of Minnesota, Morris
chapter seven. Constructing National Identity in Ottoman
Macedonia 160
İpek K. Yosmaoğlu, University of Wisconsin–Madison