{"product_id":"rethinking-state-and-border-formation-in-the-middle-east-turkish-syrian-iraqi-borderlands-1921-46-9781399503655","title":"Rethinking State and Border Formation in the Middle East: Turkish-Syrian-Iraqi Borderlands, 1921-46","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhile the wars in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Yemen, alongside the establishment of the so-called \"Islamic Caliphate\" have brought the debate about the crisis of the territorial nation-state in the Middle East once again to the fore, this issue cannot be simply understood as the logical consequence of either an imported political construction or the purported artificiality of Middle Eastern borders. Instead, the process of state formation in the region has been a complicated course that involved different institutional traditions, managing societies marked by varying degrees of political loyalty to central power, and dealing with colonial interference. \u003ci\u003eRethinking State and Border Formation in the Middle East\u003c\/i\u003e seeks to disentangle some of these complexities by proposing both a decentred and dialectic approach. Taking its cue from the bourgeoning field of borderland studies and a variety of historical sub-disciplines, this monograph pays attention to the circulation of people, goods, diseases and ideas as well as to the everyday encounters between a wide range of state and non-state actors in the borderlands laying between Turkey, Syria and Iraq. The goal is to provide a much more holistic yet finely-grained understanding of the formation of the territorial state in the interwar Middle East.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eJordi Tejel is Research Professor in Contemporary History at the University of Neuchâtel. Between 2017-2022, he has led a European Research Council (ERC, Consolidator Grant) research project on the borderlands of the interwar Middle East. He has notably authored \u003ci\u003eLa question kurde: Passé et présent\u003c\/i\u003e (2014), \u003ci\u003eSyria's Kurds: History, Politics and Society\u003c\/i\u003e(2009), and co-edited with Ramazan Hakkı Öztan \u003ci\u003eRegimes of Mobility: Borders and State Formation in the Middle East, 1918-1946\u003c\/i\u003e (Edinburgh University Press, 2022), and with Peter Sluglett, Hamit Bozarslan and Riccardo Bocco \u003ci\u003eWriting the History of Iraq: Historiographical and Political Challenges\u003c\/i\u003e (2012). He has also published in journals such as \u003ci\u003eBritish Journal of Middle East Studies, Ethnic and Racial Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEuropean Journal of Turkish Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIranian Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Borderlands Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Migration History\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMiddle East Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003e20\u0026amp;21. Revue d'histoire\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Edinburgh University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50454005088530,"sku":"9781399503655","price":130.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6cb06efc-6d7a-4745-b4cb-f22a687571b9.jpg?v=1729860362","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/rethinking-state-and-border-formation-in-the-middle-east-turkish-syrian-iraqi-borderlands-1921-46-9781399503655","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}