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Boundary Geopolitics: Definitions and Conflicts
State creation and Borders: Turkey and Kurdistan
Nationalism and Geopolitics (Chechnya case too!)
Constructing and Naturalizing the Middle East
Boundary Geopolitics: Peaceful Boundaries and Borderlands
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Dividing line between political entities
What is a Boundary?
100
Main geopolitical concepts that are seen in the Turkey Kurdistan case.
What is “Gender, State building/Nation, borders”?
100
Defined by their possession of sovereignty over a territory and its people.
What are “states”?
100
Culcasi names 2 countries that have shaped the geopolitical idea that prevails about Middle East. Name them.
France and USA
100
Type of agents that may have the settlement of boundaries as the target of their geopolitical actions.
What is "terrorists, governments, nationalist groups"?
200
It is a Border.
What is a region within which society and the landscape are altered by the presence of the boundary?
200
Syria, Iran, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iraq and Turkey.
Which countries are crossed/overlapped by Kurdistan?
200
Refers to the role of the state in creating a sense of a singular, unified national identity.
What is top-down nationalism?
200
Two alternative/different ways to call the Middle East
Western Asia, Southwest Asia, Near East
200
Trans-boundary region that shares common cultural traits, producing a geographic region of identity that is different from the two contiguous national identities.
What is borderland?
300
Laredo/Nuevo Laredo, Matamoros/Brownsville, El Paso/Ciudad Juárez, etc.
What are some examples of Borderlands?
300
The types of borders analyzed by the author.
What is “external and internal borders”, "identity/nation borders and external/territorial borders"?
300
Usually consists of violence against people and their property that forces them to flee for their safety. Bottom-up nationalism.
What is “expulsion”?
300
Who is Karen Culcasi
The author of the article in which this category is based on.
300
The conditions that are necessary to facilitate trans-boundary interaction
What is "settled territorial questions, lawful transboundary interaction, sense of having a secure boundary, possible joint resource exploitation, and coordinated local administration"?
400
4 types of boundary conflicts that Flint identifies
What are security, demarcation, identity and resources?
400
This is one example: Harassing Kurds living along the state border by conducting military invasions or ‘hot pursuits’ into northern Iraq to supposedly stop PKK... thus, fragmenting the borderland Kurdish community and enforcing Turkish identity.
What is one Turkish strategy to enforce state/external borders?
400
Most Chechens are this branch of muslim.
What is “Sunni muslim”?
400
“A camel caravan crossing desert dunes, oil derricks pumping thin black crude, rows of men kneeling in prayer, [and] bearded protesters shouting slogans” is an example of...
A stereotypical way to portray the Middle East.
400
According to Flint, this is needed for the making of a peaceful boundary
What is mutual trust and shared goals?
500
The building block of geopolitics, entity that required territorial specificity as the basis for its sovereignty.
What is the nation-state?
500
"I have argued that the twentieth-century geopolitical practices by which states like Turkey construct their national identity and delineate borders have produced a politics hostile to _______."
What is "diversity"?
500
It is the vehicle of the continual, everyday process of creating nation-state.
What is Education?
500
We all carry “knowledge” without “knowing”: imaginary constructions about our surroundings and our world. Jokes, songs, humor, provided by _______ shape our “common knowledge” about the world.
mainstream media, popular culture.
500
Key five processes that shape a borderland, according to Flint.
What is Transnationalism, otherness, separateness, areas of cultural accomodation and places of international accomodation?