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Can insecure states achieve secure borders?
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Bradnock, Robert W. |
| Copyright Year | 2020 |
| Description | This chapter owes its origins to a seminar organised by Keith McLachlan and presented in the early years of the Geopolitics Research Centre, exploring the contemporary geopolitics of South Asia's current disputed boundaries. Regional geopolitics puts the social, economic and political ground relations between neighbouring states as the analytical context within which key issues, including border problems, are assessed. Much has changed with respect to South Asian borders in the 30 years since that seminar was held, but many of the questions remain the same. How far do disputes which continue to flare up across the borders among South Asia's neighbours reflect conflicts of underlying interest and their long-term security goals? This chapter examines the ways in which borders in contemporary South Asian disputes originated and have evolved, as well as the prospects for their resolution. This fundamental issue underlies much regional research into the geopolitics of security, shown, for example, in India's Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses' programme on borders research, focusing on Indian border security issues since 1947. In the same period, from a relatively narrow concern with the physical features of the territories separated by political boundaries which characterised the British colonial period, border studies have widened to address the nature of the underlying interests of states in which their security is deemed to lie. As the experience of South Asia demonstrates, the development and significance of borders can only be understood with a full appreciation of the interactions among these key contextual variables. The many challenges posed by these borders in South, South East and South West Asia over the last 70 years have reflected the profound political changes which have taken place since the boundaries were first defined and that, within the newly independent countries, were defined by them. Book Name: Geographic Realities in the Middle East and North Africa |
| Related Links | https://api.taylorfrancis.com/content/chapters/edit/download?identifierName=doi&identifierValue=10.4324/9780429425998-6&type=chapterpdf |
| Ending Page | 80 |
| Page Count | 13 |
| Starting Page | 68 |
| DOI | 10.4324/9780429425998-6 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 2020-09-28 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Book Name: Geographic Realities in the Middle East and North Africa International Relations South Asia Underlying Interests Geopolitics Research Border Security Contemporary Borders in South |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Chapter |
