@article{2023:ollier:border_sec,
title = {Border Securitization Cycles: Periodizing Turkey’s Management of Its Iranian Border (1920–2020)},
year = {2023},
note = {The return of the Taliban to power in Afghanistan in the summer of
2021 sent a shockwave whose effects were felt far beyond national
borders. In Turkey, this event contributed to a renewed physical and
discursive securitization of the border with Iran. This article argues
that such policies and discourses are part of a long-term process of
border securitization that has been underway for at least a century.
This article identifies a periodization scheme for this securitization
process and proposes the existence of different border securitization
cycles within this process. Historical developments in Turkey are
provided as a means of identifying, comparing, and contrasting these
cycles at the Turkish-Iranian border. This article thus contributes to
critical security and border studies by showing how borders can become
the objects of securitization in and of themselves.},
journal = {DIYÂR},
pages = {210--231},
author = {Ollier, Johanna},
volume = {4},
number = {2}
}