Border Disputes: A Global Encyclopedia

摘要

This three volume set, reviewed here in its e-book version, is divided into three types of border disputes, the easily understood one where boundaries are contested (territorial), disputes where boundaries are incomplete (positional) and disputes where resources straddle boundaries (functional). The first of the set, then, includes Afghanistan/Pakistan: Pashtun, Dominican Republic/Haiti and Israel/Jordan, to name a few. Positional disputes include the Cod War (between the UK and Iceland) and the Bering Sea (between the USA and Russia), and the last volume has Antarctica and Brazil-Paraguay, among others [. . .] The contributors have or are pursuing degrees from all over the world. Readers will be able to study the treaties in question that are reproduced -from the Congress of Vienna in 1815 through the 2005 document that settled the dispute between Benin and Niger that had been stirring up trouble between them since their independence almost 60 years ago. The format in general is an easy to understand introduction followed by more in-depth analysis. As with all ABC-Clio works, the organization is clear, indexing is robust and the essays include a rich variety of cited resources for further exploration.