Comparative Politics in Borderlands
Actors, Identities, and Strategies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6232844 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert Braun (0000-0001-7377-3758, Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA;, corresponding author), Otto Kienitz (Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA;) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 303-321 |
| Publication date | 2022-05-12 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annual Review of Political Science (BOOK_SERIES) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1094-2939 • E-ISSN: 1545-1577 |
| Publisher | Annual Reviews (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1146/annurev-polisci-051120-010103 |
| OpenAlex | W3215479643 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 66 |
Comparativists are increasingly researching national border regions. Yet the distinct way in which proximity to borders independently shapes politics is rarely theorized explicitly. Drawing on the emerging subdiscipline of border studies, we identify three types of border effects: Borders involve specific actors, shape local identities, and provide distinct strategies, each of which directly affects key areas of comparative politics. An in-depth review of work on political violence and state formation shows that specifying these effects ( a) demands that comparativists consider the ways in which borderlands differ from other regions and be careful in attributing processes found there to nations as a whole, ( b) improves theories by elucidating scope conditions, and ( c) scrutinizes the validity of our research designs and measurement strategies. We end with a call to move from a comparative politics in border regions to a comparative politics of border regions that contextualizes how borders alter political processes
Comparative politics · Comparative research · Economic geography · Geography · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Scope (computer science · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science · Computer Science · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Political Systems and Governance
How Border Disputes Influence Disaster Response
The regime of bordering
Political Entrepreneurs or Bandits? The “Criminal” Origins of Peripheral Rebellions
Policing Socio-Geographic Boundaries and Inequality
Transborder Spaces and International Relations
The Complex Imprint of Foreign Rule
Explaining Public Demands for Border Militarization
Population Displacement and State Building
Changing Dynamics of Bangladesh-India Border Relations
State-Building, Collective Efficacy, and the Co-Production of Public Goods in Rural Africa
Good bridges make good neighbors
Colonial Mapmaking, Ethnic Identity, and Traditional Authority in Africa
Forging citizenship in China's borderlands
Legal identity at the margins
Violence on the Margins
The Invention of the Passport
Decentralized Authoritarianism in China
The Art of Not Being Governed
Regime Threats and State Solutions
Informal Institutions and Citizenship in Rural Africa
Walled States, Waning Sovereignty
Rebels without Borders
Inside Countries
Coercion, capital, and European states, AD 990-1992
Votes and Violence
State Building in Latin America
Protestant Ethic and the ‘Spirit of Capitalism’
Intimate Violence
Border Identities
How Insurgency Begins
Signifying Identities
Border games
Homicidal Ecologies
Rivalry and Revenge
Boundaries, Communities and State-Making in West Africa
Winning Hearts and Minds through Development? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Afghanistan
Votes, Drugs, and Violence
Precolonial Legacies in Postcolonial Politics
Understanding Life in the Borderlands
Changing Places
Border People
The Logic of Violence in Civil War
Nationalism Reframed
Institutions and Ethnic Politics in Africa
Rule of Experts
Identity as a Variable
Border Rules
Border regions and identity
The regional roots of Russia’s political regime
A Pure Theory of Local Expenditures
Boundary Studies in Political Geography
Immigration into Europe
National Versus Ethnic Identification in Africa
The Dark Side of Democracy
Imperial Rule, the Imposition of Bureaucratic Institutions, and their Long-Term Legacies
Path to Centralization and Development
Mass Resettlement and Political Violence
African Borders as Sources of Natural Experiments Promise and Pitfalls
Geographic Boundaries as Regression Discontinuities
Lines of Demarcation
From Within to Between Nations
Geography, Rebel Capability, and the Duration of Civil Conflict
Demographic Engineering and International Conflict
Timing Is Everything
Dead But Not Gone
Borders, Conflict, and Trade
Rule of Law against the Odds
Toward a Comparative History of Borderlands
Weber Revisited
Reexamining the Effect of Refugees on Civil Conflict
The Historical Origins of Territorial Disputes
Does Exposure to the Refugee Crisis Make Natives More Hostile
Aid as a Tool against Insurgency
Collective Action and Representation in Autocracies
| Unique citing works | 14 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |