Rethinking the Insulator State: Turkey’s Border Security and the Syrian Civil War

• Imai Kohei

Abstract

This article examines Turkey’s border security after the outbreak of the Syrian civil war from the viewpoint of the concept of the insulator state. First, it aims to explore Turkey’s border security policies with regard to the Syrian civil war. Turkey’s attempts to overcome and solve the difficulties rooted of Syrian civil war have been vital to its own border security in recent years. Second purpose is to rethink the concept of the insulator state. This article attempts to sophisticate the concept of the insulator state, and applies it to the case of Turkey. In conclusion, this paper clarifies the change in the meaning of Turkey’s border control policies.

Journal

• Eurasia Border Review

  Eurasia Border Review 7 (1), 19-29, 2016

  Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University

Keywords

• 290

Details

• CRID: 1390853649725034496
• NII Article ID: 120006024423
• NII Book ID: AA12497353
• DOI: 10.14943/ebr.7.1.19
• HANDLE: 2115/65077
• ISSN: 18849466
• Text Lang: en
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  • IRDB
  • CiNii Articles
• Abstract License Flag: Allowed