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State Atrophy And The Reconfiguration Of Borderlands In Syria And Iraq: Post-2011 Dynamics, Harout Akdedian, Harith Hasan
State Atrophy And The Reconfiguration Of Borderlands In Syria And Iraq: Post-2011 Dynamics, Harout Akdedian, Harith Hasan
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Circumstances in the MENA region invite us to redirect our attention to geographic areas that emerged as primary sites of power-contest. This paper looks into emerging trends in the unraveling of bounded sovereign territoriality in borderlands by examining the contest over military, economic, and socio-political spaces in the wake of the devolution of the monopoly of violence and the rise of a multitude of new and old actors to local prominence. Since 2011, borderlands in the MENA region transformed into considerable sites of contested power by a plethora of actors. The paper points out emergent patterns of deterritorialization and reterritorialization …