Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh, Kosimsho Iskandarov, and Abdul Ahad Mohammadi.
[Place of publication not identified] : Open Society Foundations, 2015.
67 pages ; 30 cm.
Summary: “Securing a total of 2387 km river-border they share with Afghanistan is high on the national security agenda of the three Central Asian countries of Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, concerned as they are about any potential trespassing of traffickers, extremists and terrorists. But borders are not only physical barriers, they also consist of spaces inhabited by people who once consisted of the same family or kin groups before nation states came into existence. They often have a different perception than do policy makers sitting in distant capitals of what the border represents in terms of threats and opportunities…”—(page summary).