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Territorial Disputes and Conflict Management

This book examines the problems of boundary demarcation and its impact on territorial disputes, and offers techniques to manage and resolve the resulting conflicts.

Historically, many interstate conflicts and wars have been directly related to boundary or territorial disputes. Cross-border discord directly affects the sustenance and welfare of local populations, often resulting in disease, impoverishment, and environmental damage as well as creating refugees. Although the impact of territorial disputes is great, they can often be settled through bilateral, and sometimes multilateral, agreements or international arbitration.

This book sets out to probe into the problems of existing techniques on boundary demarcation and to test their possible impacts on boundary and territorial disputes. Various factors and their influences on cross-border tensions are tested, either qualitatively or quantitatively. After close examination of dozens of the most significant cases, the book presents various alternative solutions to the achievement of cross-border cooperation in disputed territories. An art of avoiding war is included within the book, comprising six key schemes and five negotiating techniques. The comparative advantages, costs and benefits of each of these are analyzed and evaluated.

This book will help guide practitioners in territorial disputes and will be of interest to students of conflict management, international security, peace and conflict studies, political violence and IR in general.

Rongxing Guo is Professor and Head of Regional Economics Committee, Regional Science Association of China (RSAC), Peking University, Beijing, China. He has a PhD from the School of Economics and Trade, China University of Mining and Technology 1992, and is author of more than 20 monographs and edited books in both English and Chinese.

Series: Security and Conflict Management

Series Editors: Fen Osler Hampson

Carleton University, Canada

Chester Crocker

Georgetown University, Washington, DC

Pamela Aall

United States Institute of Peace, Washington, DC

This series will publish the best work in the field of security studies and conflict management. In particular, it will promote leading-edge work that straddles the divides between conflict management and security studies, between academics and practitioners, and between disciplines.

1 Negotiation and Conflict Management

I. William Zartman

2 Conflict Management and African Politics

Negotiation, mediation, and politics

Terrence Lyons and Gilbert M. Khadiagala, eds

3 International Conflict Mediation

New approaches and findings

Jacob Bercovitch and Scott Sigmund Gartner, eds

4 International Mediation in Civil Wars

Bargaining with bullets

Timothy D. Sisk

5 Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding

Moving from violence to sustainable peace

Bruce Dayton and Louis Kriesberg, eds

6 Theory and Practice of International Mediation

Selected essays

Jacob Bercovitch

7 UN Sanctions and Conflict

Responding to peace and security threats

Andrea Charron

8 Territorial Disputes and Conflict Management

The art of avoiding war

Rongxing Guo

Territorial Disputes and Conflict Management

The art of avoiding war

Rongxing Guo

First published 2012

by Routledge

2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada

by Routledge

711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business

2012 Rongxing Guo

The right of Rongxing Guo to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Guo, Rongxing

Territorial disputes and conflict management: the art of avoiding war/Rongxing Guo.

p. cm. (Security and conflict management; 8)

Includes bibliographical references

1. WarPreventionMethodology. 2. Conflict management Methodology. 3. Boundary disputesCase studies. 4. Pacific settlement of international disputes. 5. Conflict managementInternational cooperation. 6. Human territorialityPolitical aspects. I. Title.

JZ6368.G86 2011

327.172dc22

2011013709

ISBN: 978-0-415-68209-1 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-0-203-80296-0 (ebk)

This book is dedicated to my wife (Yuhui), my brother (Rongxun) and sister (Rongmei) from whom I have learnt how to avoid wars within a family

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Cases

ArabIsraeli conflict

ArgentinaChile boundary (Laguna del Desierto) dispute

ArgentinaChile territorial (Beagle Channel) dispute

BangladeshIndia territorial (Bay of Bengal) dispute

BangladeshIndia (Ganges diversion) dispute

BrazilUruguay boundary (Brasilera Island) dispute

CambodianThai boundary (Preah Vihear Temple) dispute

ChinaIndia border war (Arunachal Pradesh)

ChinaRussia boundary (Abagaitu Sandbars) dispute

ChinaRussia boundary (Bolshoi Ussurikiiy/Heixiazi Islands) dispute

ColombiaVenezuela boundary (Gulf of Venezuela) dispute

Delimiting the Abyei area (central Sudan)

East China Sea dispute

EcuadorPeru boundary (Cordillera del Condor) dispute

GreeceTurkey (Aegean) dispute

Inter-Korean maritime dispute (Yellow Sea)

IraqKuwait boundary dispute

IsraeliPalestinian conflict

JapanRussia territorial dispute

Kashmir conflict (China v. India v. Pakistan)

Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)

Mekong water pollution

RussiaGeorgia (South Ossetia) war

South China Sea (Spratly Islands) dispute

Sudan civil war

Territorial claims in Antarctica

Timor Sea dispute (Australia v. East Timor)

UN Buffer Zone (Cyprus)

USCanada maritime boundary dispute (Gulf of Maine)

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