Sınır Bölgelerinde Sosyo-Mekânsal Etkileşim ve Yönetişim: Türkiye Örneği.

With the increased permeability of the nation state borders, border regions host more intense flows of goods and people when compared to the past and turn into spaces of more central and important activities, instead of being excluded places in the periphery. The growing volumetric interactions have led to a multi-dimensional and analytical assessment of the border regions. In this respect, it is aimed to measure the cross-border economic, social, administrative and spatial interaction levels in Turkey’s national borders with the help of objective indicators that can be obtained at the central level; to define the socio-spatial interaction forms by network analysis in the border regions where the interaction is relatively high; and to develop a governance framework in the context of the specific characteristics of the regions. With this research; Multivariate Border Permeability Index was developed to measure border permeability at the national level. The network analysis; revealed that the central settlements in the border regions differed depending on the characteristics of the network, the spatial domain of the border regions could go beyond the distances in the literature and in practice, and the settlements that had central features at the national level but outside the spatial domain of the border had significant relations with the cross-border. In the governance dimension, the importance of the concept of “common governance gap” for the border regions was emphasized that vulnerability and sensitive balances between neighbor states do not allow a strong governance framework to be maintained for border regions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]