Economics, Security and Citizenship in Managing the Border between Iran and Turkmenistan

پژوهش ‎های جغرافیای سیاسی

Article 3, Volume 8, Issue 2 - Serial Number 30, January 2024, Pages 54-83   

Document Type: مقالات علمی -پژوهشی

DOI: 10.22067/pg.2023.73726.1110

Author

Hossein Rabiei^*

Associate Professor, Department of Political Geography, Faculty of Geographical Sciences, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Borders, as much as a barrier to delineation and separation, can be a factor in the action and interaction of the frontiersman and the bridge to connect the inhabitants of the two sides of the border. Depending on the policy of governments, there are different forms of bordering in the world. Despite a relatively short history, the border issues between Iran and Turkmenistan have been many fluctuations. Prior to the independence of Turkmenistan, the Soviet border were ideological border and were heavily protected and controlled. At the beginning of the independence of Turkmenistan, an agreement was reached with the aim of establishing bilateral engagement for the passage of residents across the border, and there are now many restrictions on the movement of the border residents. This article tries to examine the factors and background of this fluctuations. At first, theoretical discussions on border studies and border management are presented, and then some examples of border management realities in the region are described. Turkmenistan's domestic policy seems to have had the greatest impact on the current situation.This article, by observing the field, interviews border guards and border residents, as well as some library data, analyzes the borderline flow on this frontier.

Keywords

Boundary; Iran; Turkmenistan

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