border disputes
Fights over lines
Border disputes are conflicts between nations or other jurisdictions over where boundaries should lie.
They range from diplomatic disagreements resolved through negotiation to armed confrontations: The border dispute between India and China has flared repeatedly since 1962.
Some disputes involve competing historical claims; others arise from ambiguous treaties or shifting rivers that once defined the line.
- wallVertical enclosing structure
- annexationAbsorbing territory into jurisdiction
- sovereigntySupreme independent authority
- fenceBoundary structure between properties
- frontierEdge of settlement
colonial legacy · indigenous lands · arbitration · boundary · ceasefire agreements · oil reserves · partition · territorial claims · historical claims · ethnic groups · no-fly zones · treaty negotiation · patrol · demarcation · no man's land · water rights · natural resources · encroachment
- Eastern EuropePoland, Hungary, Romania, Ukraine, Bulgaria
- Southeast AsiaVietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Indonesia
- conflictsargument, fight, war, battle, dispute
- AfghanistanKabul, Kandahar, Pashtun, Tajik, Helmand
- international lawinternational law, treaty, treaties, conventions, protocols
- Arab HistoryArab Spring, Arab League, Nasser, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Baath Party