Territorial Disputes

**Fuchs** · 03-30-2014

I wrote about it in 2009 (2), there are indeed many such disputes even in Europe. Often it's the "agreed to disagree" kind.

**davidbfpo** · 03-31-2014

Yesterday I read both posts, the links and the two Wiki contributions. Many of the disputes are very old, mostly stable and very few are consistently "hot". Even Kashmir is quiet compared to a few years ago.

There are disputes due to legal / territorial causes, but those where conflict is possible, if not latent are when an economic harvest is possible - oil & gas discoveries often. More potent are those disputes where large numbers of people from one nation have moved - in recent times - across the boundary into another where land can still be occupied.

That is why the long running disputes over the Bangladesh-Indian border come to the top of my list to watch as they are joined by large scale population moves, often into India's 'tribal' or 'minority' areas.

**Fuchs** · 03-31-2014

Crimea was no highlighted territorial dispute until recently either. In fact, it was officially no territorial dispute and IIRC not present on the Wikipedia list of territorial disputes until recently.