Explaining the Factors Affecting the Geopolitics of the Iranian-Iraqi Border

Subject Areas : Geopolitic

Zahra Saber ¹ , Farham Goodarzi ² , GOLAM Reza ADABI ³

1 - PhD in Political Geography, Lecturer at the Institute of Higher Education, Damon Fooman, Fooman, Iran
2 - PhD Student in International Relations
3 - Master of Political Geography, Secretary of Education of Dezful city

Received: 2019-12-15 Accepted : 2021-01-22 Published : 2020-07-22

Keywords: Iran, Iraq, border, Geopolitical Border,

Abstract :

Neighbor-nation relations around the territorial and non-territorial factors have always been a part of the realities of world political history. Meanwhile, the geography and geopolitics of each region has played an important role in the quality of relations between neighboring political and spatial units. And border issues are one of the perennial geopolitical areas of the two countries' relations. Therefore, the authors of this paper, using descriptive-analytical method and library method, have collected the data and presented GIS maps to explain the factors affecting the geopolitics of Iran-Iraq border. The findings of the study, which are analyzed in the three axes of "natural, human and economic components", suggest that natural components in the form of topography and boundary rivers, human components in the form of history and antiquity, identity and racial changes and The distribution of religion and economic components in the form of border markets, customs, and tourism affect the geopolitics of the Iran-Iraq border