Expressing and Ranking the Factors Affecting the Importance of Borders with an Emphasis on Land Borders

پژوهش نامه ایرانی سیاست بین الملل

Article 5, Volume 5, Issue 2, December 2017, Pages 93-117   

Document Type: مقالات

DOI: 10.22067/jipr.v5i2.61119

Authors

Maliheh Kabiri; mohsen janparvar^* ; Seyed Hadi Zarghani

ferdowsi university of mashhad

Abstract

Abstract
Borders are important because they separate territories and determine sovereign states. However, all borders are not equally important. This study aims to identify key factors through which the importance of borders may be measured in order to contribute to scholarly endeavor on border management and border area planning. The increasing importance of border maintenance and control as well as spatial planning in border areas necessitate a comprehensive measurement of their importance. No current research has comprehensively investigated key factors in border importance measurement. Based on the existing relevant theories 40 indicators may be used to measure border importance. We classify them into 8 categories containing 5 indices. The 8 categories are entitled geographical, demographical, economic, cultural, security - defense, the identity - rights, political and regional and global categories. To confirm the dimensions and indicators, questionnaires were designed and were distributed among experts in the field. The results that are based on statistical analysis of the questionnaires, Showed that only three index of the 40 extracted Index, were rejected and the remaining indices were confirmed– rights dimension.

Keywords

Borders; Land borders; border importance

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