چکیده:
Borders which are specified by natural, man-made or contractual terrain specify the
sovereignty limit of a state in a territory and with passing a line-like distance and the border
line between two countries we will reach another state with a different political structure.
The sensitivity of the border concept and the huge effects it has one national security and
wars and conflicts and as well as on interactions between the countries has attracted a
special attention toward it. Political geography as the main knowledge regarding the studies
about the border possesses a more extensive background comparing to the other related
sciences. Typology studies and classification of the borders with studying border from
physical or cultural point of view and also classifying it based on border conflicts have
allocated a special place to them. In line with this, Jones has provided his classification of
borders according to their relationships with the type of border conflicts. Considering this
approach, the international borders of Iran also, as the lines confiding the territories of this
country, have formed a significant part of the academic and management studies in Iran and
a large part of these studies have been conducted by geographers, and especially political
geographers. In this study, we intend to classify Iran’s border in terms of Jones perspective
with the use of analytical method and from political geography viewpoint.
خلاصه ماشینی:
A of Political Geography, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran Received: 04/09/2016 Accepted: 08/05/2017 Abstract Borders which are specified by natural, man-made or contractual terrain specify the sovereignty limit of a state in a territory and with passing a line-like distance and the border line between two countries we will reach another state with a different political structure.
Based on this, the political geographers reduced their studies on international borders and started to deal with more extensive issues regarding the Geopolitics of the Cold War. After the end of the cold war and entering the new era, some views were created regarding to a world without any border and in was increases.
Although the concept of a world without any border cannot be considered as a lie, however; still the fact 310 Geopolitics Quarterly, Volume: 13, No 4, Winter 2018 exists that the borders will continue to exist in a variety of forms and with different intensities to limit our territories and the boundaries of our interactions and our affiliations.
These disputes include functional disputes – due to illegal crossing of humans, smuggle of goods and drugs- spot disputes- due to lack of stability in the border which is in turn due to the variability in the bed of the Helmand river and Hamoon lakes- and the observed disputes over the resources are due to the conflict between Iran and Afghanistan over the share rate of each of the countries of the Helmand rivers.