UNDERSTANDING LIFE IN THE BORDERLANDS This page intentionally left blank SERIES EDITORS Gary K. Bertsch Howard J. Wiarda University Professor of Public and Dean Rusk Professor of International Relations International Aff airs and Director of the and Head of the Department of International Center for International Trade and Security, Aff airs, University of Georgia University of Georgia SERIES ADVISORY BOARD Pauline H. Baker William J. Long The Fund for Peace Sam Nunn School of International Aff airs, Georgia Institute of Technology Eliot Cohen Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced Jessica Tuchman Mathews International Studies, Johns Hopkins Carnegie Endowment for International Peace University Scott D. Sagan Eric Einhorn Center for International Security and Center for Public Policy and Administration, Cooperation, Stanford University University of Massachusetts, Amherst Lawrence Scheinman John J. Hamre Monterey Institute of International Studies, The Center for Strategic and International CNS-W DC Studies David Shambaugh Josef Joff e The Elliott School of International Aff airs, Hoover Institution, Institute for International George Washington University Studies, Stanford University Jessica Stern Lawrence J. Korb John F. Kennedy School of Government, Center for American Progress Harvard University This page intentionally left blank UNDERSTANDING LIFE IN THE BORDERLANDS Boundaries in Depth and in Motion EDITED BY I. WILLIAM ZARTMAN The University of Georgia Press Athens and London © 2010 by the University of Georgia Press Athens, Georgia 30602 www. ugapress. org All rights reserved Designed by Walton Harris Set in 10/14 Minion Pro by Graphic Composition, Inc. Printed digitally in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging- in-Publication Data Zartman, I. William. Understanding life in the borderlands : boundaries in depth and in motion / edited by I. William Zartman. p. cm. — (Studies in security and international aff airs) Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn- 13: 978- 0- 8203- 3385- 4 (hardcover : alk. paper) isbn- 10: 0- 8203- 3385- 9 (hardcover : alk. paper) isbn- 13: 978- 0- 8203- 3407- 3 (pbk. : alk. paper) isbn- 10: 0- 8203- 3407- 3 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Boundaries—Social aspects. 2. Borderlands—Social aspects. I. Zartman, I. William. II. Title. jc323.z37 2010 306.2—dc22 2009022657 British Library Cataloging- in-Publication Data available To CAORC and all its AORCs For their great contribution to interdisciplinary knowledge And intercultural understanding This page intentionally left blank CONTENTS Acknowledgments xi introduction. Identity, Movement, and Response 1 I. William Zartman, The Johns Hopkins University Part I. Structures in Evolution chapter one. Borderland Dynamics in the Era of the Pyramid Builders in Egypt 21 Miroslav Bárta, Charles University chapter two. Confl ict and Control on the Ottoman- Greek Border 40 George Gavrilis, University of Texas at Austin chapter three. Illicit Trade and the Emergence of Albania and Yemen 58 Isa Blumi, Georgia State University chapter four. On the Margin of Statehood? State- Society Relations in African Borderlands 85 Judith Vorrath, Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich chapter five. Change and Non- change in the U.S.-Mexican Borderlands after NAFTA 105 David Stea, Jamie Zech, and Melissa Gray, Texas State University– San Marcos Part II. Identities in Transition chapter six. Colonialism or Conviviencia in Frankish Cyprus? 133 James G. Schryver, University of Minnesota, Morris chapter seven. Constructing National Identity in Ottoman Macedonia 160 İpek K. Yosmaoğlu, University of Wisconsin–Madison
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