Borders and Territory
Organizations
- International Boundaries Research Unit
- International Boundary Consultants
- Boundary Bits
- International Boundary Monitor (see also the index)
- Geopolitics and International Boundaries Research Center (located at SOAS in London)
- Boundary Litigation Group
Other Resources
- Wilson Krukoski, "Frontiers and Boundaries" (also available in Spanish, Portuguese, and French)
- Lord Curzon, "Frontiers" (the complete text of the 1907 Romanes lecture, available in five parts on the Web through the IBRU; follow the links at the bottom of each page to advance to the next part)
- Stephen E. Delong, "'Fraid at the Edges (an essay on borders and possessions that focuses on the United States, from a professor of geology at the University of Albany)
- Barry Smith, On Drawing Lines on a Map (from a philosopher at Buffalo)
- Border Studies Exhibitions (from Humanities-Interactive)
- Border Pictures (an interesting site with pictures of as many international borders as possible, trying to give more life and meaning to each border than is possible by seeing lines on a map; from Jesper Nielsen. See also Peter Hering's Border Pictures site.)
- The Corner Corner (from Brian J. Butler; a page with information on each tripoint between U.S. states. See also his page with tripoint pictures, as well as David Mark's TriState, USA.)
Territorial Claims: General Resources
- IBRU Database Search Form (providing access to a database of thousands of news articles on international borders from 1991 to the present, with about a six-month lag; if this link doesn't work, try this alternative URL)
- IBRU Boundary-Related Links
- International Court of Justice (see especially their What's New, Current Docket, and Past Decisions pages)
- CIA World Factbook
- U.S. Army Country Studies/Area Handbooks
- U.S. State Department Country Background Notes
- The Embassy Page also offers links to many countries' embassies in the US or elsewhere, some of which offer their own versions of ongoing territorial disputes.)
- The Trade and Environment Database (TED) and Inventory of Conflict and Environment (ICE) projects include a number of cases related to territory; they also provide a list of water-related cases from these two projects called Water on the Web
Potential Border/Territorial Claims
- International Land Boundaries (from the IBRU; if this link doesn't work, try this alternative URL)
- Dependencies and Areas of Special Sovereignty (from the U.S. State Department)
- UNEP Islands Home Page and Island Directory Home Page (includes lists of islands arranged by country and by island name)
Claims to Territory: Current and Historical Cases
See also my Fresh Water and pages for additional claims related to cross-border water resources, islands, and offshore fishing zones, many of which may involve territorial components.
Western Hemisphere
Belize (Guatemala vs. UK/Belize)
Brazil vs. Argentina
Brazil vs. Bolivia
Brazil vs. Colombia
Brazil vs. French Guiana
Brazil vs. Guyana
Brazil vs. Paraguay
Brazil vs. Peru
Brazil vs. Suriname
Brazil vs. Uruguay
Brazil vs. Venezuela
Canada/Quebec-UK/Newfoundland (Labrador)
Canada-USA
- Estcourt, Maine (the story of a town that lies across the U.S.-Canadian border, including pictures)
- US-Canada Boundary Monuments (from Dan Jacobson)
Ecuador-Peru
- Peruvian Foreign Ministry (includes a chronology of foreign relations, as well as numerous documents and maps of the territorial claim between Ecuador and Peru)
- The Ecuador-Peru Peace Process (from Ecuador's embassy in Washington, D.C.; includes a page about the peace agreement)
- The Ecuador-Peru Border Dispute (from Jorge Ruiz; includes a variety of links related to the conflict)
- Ecuador-Peru Peace Agreement (from the USIP)
Guyana vs. Suriname
- Guyana's Borders with Venezuela and Suriname (from GuyanaGuide and the Stabroek News)
Nicaragua vs. Honduras
Venezuela vs. Guyana
- Guyana's Borders with Venezuela and Suriname (from GuyanaGuide and the Stabroek News)
- Guyana-Venezuela Border Issues 1999-2000 (from GuyanaGuide and the Stabroek News)
- Cedric L. Joseph, A Persistent Threat to Guyana's Territorial Integrity (from GuyanaGuide and the Stabroek News)
- Cedric L. Joseph, The Arbitral Award of October 3, 1899: A Century Later (from GuyanaGuide and the Stabroek News)
- Odeen Ishmael, The Trail of Diplomacy: A Documentary History of the Guyana-Venezuela Border Issue
- The Shape of Guyana (from GuyanaGuide and the Stabroek News)
- Venezuela - Again? (from a 1998 issue of Guyana Review magazine)
- A Venezuela Primer (from a 1998 issue of Guyana Review magazine)
- Los Derechos Venezolanos de Soberania en el Esequibo (from the Venezuelan Ministry of Foreign Relations)
Europe
Belgium vs. Netherlands
- 1959 ICJ judgment
- Barry Smith's Baarle Nassau and Baarle Hertog page
Bosnia-Herzegovina and Neighbors
- Bosnia and Herzegovina (from the USIP)
Cyprus (Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, TRNC)
- The Cyprus Issue (from the (Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
- The Cyprus Issue (from the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
- Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Defence Public Relations Department)
Gibraltar (Spain vs. UK)
- Gibraltar Frontier Website (from Gibraltar; see especially their history page and their live frontier camera)
Africa
Aozou Strip (Libya vs. Chad)
Cameroon vs. Nigeria
Ethiopia-Eritrea
- Ethiopia Eritrea News Conflict Page (includes pages devoted to the analysis and background of the Ethiopia-Eritrea conflict)
Mali vs. Burkina Faso
Northern Cameroons (Cameroon vs. UK)
Middle East
Arab-Israeli Claims
- Documents and Treaties (from the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
- The Mideast Peace Process (from the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
- Maps (a gopher site from the Israeli government)
- Golan Heights Information Server and National Council for the Golan (two Israeli organizations that oppose returning the Heights to Syria)
- Water Disputes in the Jordan Basin (a 1995 research paper by Stephen Libiszewski)
- Eye on Palestine
- UN Palestine Question Page
Asia and Oceania
Kashmir (India-Pakistan)
Temple of Preah Vihear (Cambodia vs. Thailand)
Primarily Internal Territorial Problems
East Timor (Indonesia, Australia, Portugal)
Kurdistan (primarily Turkey, Iraq, Iran)
- Kurdish Information Network (includes a page of facts and figures about the Kurds and Kurdistan)
Western Sahara (Morocco, Mauritania, Spain)
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Last updated: 2 March 2005
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