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Informationen zum Autor George Gavrilis is Assistant Professor of International Relations in the Department of Government at the University of Texas, Austin. In 2009, he served as an International Affairs Fellow with the Council on Foreign Relations. His previous positions include Director of Research for the CFR Oral History Project, Columbia University, New York; Associate Research Fellow at the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, Columbia University; and National Security Postdoctoral Fellow, Olin Institute for Strategic Studies, Harvard University, Massachusetts. His articles have appeared in Foreign Affairs, The Washington Quarterly, PS: Political Science and Politics, and American Behavioral Scientist. He has conducted research in the Middle East, Central Asia, Afghanistan, and the Balkans. Klappentext This book explains why some borders deter insurgents! smugglers! bandits! and militants! while most suffer from infiltration and crisis. Zusammenfassung Grappling with an issue at the core of the modern state and international security! this book explores border control from the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire to twenty-first-century Central Asia! China! and Afghanistan! exploring why some borders deter insurgents! smugglers! bandits! and militants! while most suffer from infiltration and crisis. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The trouble with borders; 2. Four claims about interstate boundaries; 3. Border guards, bandits, and the Ottoman-Greek boundary regime in the nineteenth century; 4. The view from above; 5. State formation and Central Asian peripheries in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries; 6. The view from below; 7. Implications and interventions.
