Abstract
A special kind of cross-border areas, disputed areas refer to as territories over which two or more countries or groups of people claim sovereignty. Boundary and territorial disputes often stem from material claims or the fundamental changes in domestic and international environments, sometimes they may also emerge as a result of cultural differences. In certain circumstances, boundary and territorial disputes may even evolve into geopolitical games of big-power rivalry and competition. In this chapter, four types of common errors and intricacies in boundary description are found to have easily led to boundary and territorial disputes, and five factors (resource scarcity, locational feature, domestic politics, geopolitical competition and cultural difference) and how they have decisively influenced cross-border tensions in disputed territories will be analysed. The recent developments in the Arctic and other disputed areas are also included in this chapter.
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