Territorial and Maritime Boundary Disputes in Asia

Territorial disputes involve a state’s national sovereignty and territorial integrity-its core interests. Historically, they have been the most common issue over which states collide and go to war. Since 1945, Asia has been more prone to conflict over territory and maritime boundaries than other reg...

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Main Author: Fravel, M. Taylor
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Political Science
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Oxford University Press 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/92742
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5831-8949
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description Territorial disputes involve a state’s national sovereignty and territorial integrity-its core interests. Historically, they have been the most common issue over which states collide and go to war. Since 1945, Asia has been more prone to conflict over territory and maritime boundaries than other regions in the world. Asia accounts for the greatest number of disputes over territory that have become militarized and that have escalated into interstate wars. Disputes in Asia have also been resistant to settlement, accounting for the lowest rate of settlement when compared with other regions. Most importantly, Asia today has far more territorial disputes than any other part of the world. When combined with the rise of new powers, which are involved in multiple territorial disputes, such conflicts are poised to become an increasing source of tension and instability in the region
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spelling mit-1721.1/927422022-09-30T17:40:20Z Territorial and Maritime Boundary Disputes in Asia Fravel, M. Taylor Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Political Science Fravel, M. Taylor Fravel, M. Taylor Territorial disputes involve a state’s national sovereignty and territorial integrity-its core interests. Historically, they have been the most common issue over which states collide and go to war. Since 1945, Asia has been more prone to conflict over territory and maritime boundaries than other regions in the world. Asia accounts for the greatest number of disputes over territory that have become militarized and that have escalated into interstate wars. Disputes in Asia have also been resistant to settlement, accounting for the lowest rate of settlement when compared with other regions. Most importantly, Asia today has far more territorial disputes than any other part of the world. When combined with the rise of new powers, which are involved in multiple territorial disputes, such conflicts are poised to become an increasing source of tension and instability in the region 2015-01-07T20:25:25Z 2015-01-07T20:25:25Z 2014-10 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/BookItem 9780199916245 0199916241 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/92742 Fravel, M. Taylor. Territorial and Maritime Boundary Disputes in Asia. In Saadia M. Pekkanen, John Ravenhill, and Rosemary Foot (Eds.). Oxford handbook of the International Relations in Asia (chapter 27). New York, NY: Oxford University Press, [2014]. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5831-8949 en_US http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199916245.do Oxford Handbook of the International Relations of Asia Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf Oxford University Press Fravel
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