Territorial disputes: Final Recap 2018 (10) [Post 200]

The Persian Gulf presents several TERRITORIAL DISPUTES in which several international agents claim sovereign rights for different reasons over the same area. 

Regionally, with a direct or indirect implication, we have Saudi Arabia, Iran, Bahrain, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Oman, Iraq. 

In addition to the regional claimants, there are many other international actors. The previous posts introduced the United States, the United Kingdom, Russia and China. 

The solution seems to require a mutually exclusive relation amongst them because it is assumed that the sovereignty over the disputes territories can be granted to only one of them. Indeed, sovereignty is often regarded as an absolute concept (that is to say, exclusive, and not shareable).

NOTE: The last posts this year include a recap of all we have covered so far by including daily the relevant links.

Posts 161 to 190: The Persian Gulf

Territorial disputes: The Persian Gulf (Part 1) [Post 161]

Territorial disputes: The Persian Gulf (Part 2) [Post 162]

Territorial disputes: The Persian Gulf (Part 3) [Post 163]

Territorial disputes: The Persian Gulf (Part 4) [Post 164]

Territorial disputes: The Persian Gulf (Part 5) [Post 165]

Territorial disputes: The Persian Gulf (Part 6) [Post 166]

Territorial disputes: The Persian Gulf (Part 7) [Post 167]

Territorial disputes: The Persian Gulf (Part 8) [Post 168]

Territorial disputes: The Persian Gulf (Part 9) [Post 169]

Territorial disputes: The Persian Gulf (Part 10) [Post 170]

Territorial disputes: The Persian Gulf (Part 11) [Post 171]

Territorial disputes: The Persian Gulf (Part 12) [Post 172]

Territorial disputes: The Persian Gulf (Part 13) [Post 173]

Territorial disputes: The Persian Gulf (Part 14) [Post 174]

Territorial disputes: The Persian Gulf (Part 15) [Post 175]

Territorial disputes: The Persian Gulf (Part 16) [Post 176]

Territorial disputes: The Persian Gulf (Part 17) [Post 177]

Territorial disputes: The Persian Gulf (Part 18) [Post 178]

Territorial disputes: The Persian Gulf (Part 19) [Post 179]

Territorial disputes: The Persian Gulf (Part 20) [Post 180]

Territorial disputes: The Persian Gulf (Part 21) [Post 181]

Territorial disputes: The Persian Gulf (Part 22) [Post 182]

Territorial disputes: The Persian Gulf (Part 23) [Post 183]

Territorial disputes: The Persian Gulf (Part 24) [Post 184]

Territorial disputes: The Persian Gulf (Part 25) [Post 185]

Territorial disputes: The Persian Gulf (Part 26) [Post 186]

Territorial disputes: The Persian Gulf (Part 27) [Post 187]

Territorial disputes: The Persian Gulf (Part 28) [Post 188]

Territorial disputes: The Persian Gulf (Part 29) [Post 189]

Territorial disputes: The Persian Gulf (Part 30) [Post 190]

Jorge Emilio Núñez

Twitter: @London1701

28th December 2018

Territorial disputes: Final Recap 2018 (9) [Post 199]

The posts about Africa in this blog series TERRITORIAL DISPUTES have made clear so far that although there are particular elements related only to each individual difference, there is still a constant issue: colonialism and imperialism and the way in which the borders were delineated by powers outside Africa. Arguably, despite we could assume good will at the time these borders were agreed, it is a fact they were designed taken into account interests that may coincide with those of the Africans but do not necessarily do.

Even though we may forget the colonial past and the roots of current conflict and poverty in Africa, the same non-regional agents that once divided the continent are still taking advantage in different ways.

Conflict induced displacement includes those who are forced to flee their homes for many reasons: armed conflict including civil war, generalized violence, and persecution on the grounds of nationality, race, religion, political opinion or social group. Forced migration also occurs in response to border disputes, which have led to violent conflicts in several countries.

NOTE: The last posts this year include a recap of all we have covered so far by including daily the relevant links.

Posts 136 to 160: Africa

Territorial disputes: Africa (Part 1) [Post 136]

Territorial disputes: Africa (Part 2) [Post 137]

Territorial disputes: Africa (Part 3) [Post 138]

Territorial disputes: Africa (Part 4) [Post 139]

Territorial disputes: Africa (Part 5) [Post 140]

Territorial disputes: Africa (Part 6) [Post 141]

Territorial disputes: Africa (Part 7) [Post 142]

Territorial disputes: Africa (Part 8) [Post 143]

Territorial disputes: Africa (Part 9) [Post 144]

Territorial disputes: Africa (Part 10) [Post 145]

Territorial disputes: Africa (Part 11) [Post 146]

Territorial disputes: Africa (Part 12) [Post 147]

Territorial disputes: Africa (Part 13) [Post 148]

Territorial disputes: Africa (Part 14) [Post 149]

Territorial disputes: Africa (Part 15) [Post 150]

Territorial disputes: Africa (Part 16) [Post 151]

Territorial disputes: Africa (Part 17) [Post 152]

Territorial disputes: Africa (Part 18) [Post 153]

Territorial disputes: Africa (Part 19) [Post 154]

Territorial disputes: Africa (Part 20) [Post 155]

Territorial disputes: Africa (Part 21) [Post 156]

Territorial disputes: Africa (Part 22) [Post 157]

Territorial disputes: Africa (Part 23) [Post 158]

Territorial disputes: Africa (Part 24) [Post 159]

Territorial disputes: Africa (Part 25) [Post 160]

Jorge Emilio Núñez

Twitter: @London1701

27th December 2018

Territorial disputes: Final Recap 2018 (8) [Post 198]

Today we go back to our posts about the South China Sea. The last posts this year include a recap of all we have covered so far by including daily the relevant links.

The blog series TERRITORIAL DISPUTES covered conceptual elements, law and politics, and several of the most relevant worldwide differences.

Posts 116 to 135: South China Sea

Territorial disputes: South China Sea (Part 1) [Post 116]

Territorial disputes: South China Sea (Part 2) [Post 117]

Territorial disputes: South China Sea (Part 3) [Post 118]

Territorial disputes: South China Sea (Part 4) [Post 119]

Territorial disputes: South China Sea (Part 5) [Post 120]

Territorial disputes: South China Sea (Part 6) [Post 121]

Territorial disputes: South China Sea (Part 7) [Post 122]

Territorial disputes: South China Sea (Part 8) [Post 123]

Territorial disputes: South China Sea (Part 9) [Post 124]

Territorial disputes: South China Sea (Part 10) [Post 125]

Territorial disputes: South China Sea (Part 11) [Post 126]

Territorial disputes: South China Sea (Part 12) [Post 127]

Territorial disputes: South China Sea (Part 13) [Post 128]

Territorial disputes: South China Sea (Part 14) [Post 129]

Territorial disputes: South China Sea (Part 15) [Post 130]

Territorial disputes: South China Sea (Part 16) [Post 131]

Territorial disputes: South China Sea (Part 17) [Post 132]

Territorial disputes: South China Sea (Part 18) [Post 133]

Territorial disputes: South China Sea (Part 19) [Post 134]

Territorial disputes: South China Sea (Part 20) [Post 135]

Jorge Emilio Núñez

Twitter: @London1701

26th December 2018

Territorial disputes: Final Recap 2018 (7) [Post 197]

Northern Ireland introduces a particularly interesting application of the term “shared sovereignty” is the case of divided societies or “cultural shared sovereignty”. Northern Ireland presents with two clearly defined sectors, that of the nationalists, mainly Roman Catholics, and that of the unionists, mainly Protestants. This model applies to two ethnic or nationality groups living in the same territory neither of which wants to belong to a state dominated by the other.

With Northern Ireland, the first posts differed from previous analysis presented by this blog series TERRITORIAL DISPUTES. This time the series introduced the relationship between national law and international law. From there, the relationship between the law in the United Kingdom and the European Union was explored by presenting the notion of supremacy or primacy (in a nutshell, European Union law has priority over the national legal order of the Member States). 

Thereafter, the particular emphasis was on free movement of people, European Union citizenship, free movements of goods, capital and services. These are the “four fundamental freedoms” that all Member States part of the European Union reciprocally recognize and that the United Kingdom, and therefore Northern Ireland, will give up in 2019).

NOTE: The last posts this year include a recap of all we have covered so far by including daily the relevant links.

Posts 85 to 115: Northern Ireland

Previous posts on this series about Northern Ireland (and the European Union):

Post 86: Territorial disputes: Northern Ireland (Part 1)

Post 87: Territorial disputes: Northern Ireland (Part 2)

Post 88: Territorial disputes: Northern Ireland (Part 3)

Post 89: Territorial disputes: Northern Ireland (Part 4)

Post 90: Territorial disputes: Northern Ireland (Part 5)

Post 91: Territorial disputes: Northern Ireland (Part 6)

Post 92: Territorial disputes: Northern Ireland (Part 7)

Post 93: Territorial disputes: Northern Ireland (Part 8)

Post 94: Territorial disputes: Northern Ireland (Part 9)

Post 95: Territorial disputes: Northern Ireland (Part 10)

Post 96: Territorial disputes: Northern Ireland (Part 11)

Post 97: Territorial disputes: Northern Ireland (Part 12)

Post 98: Territorial disputes: Northern Ireland (Part 13)

Post 99: Territorial disputes: Northern Ireland (Part 14)

Post 100: Territorial disputes: Northern Ireland (Part 15)

Post 101: Territorial disputes: Northern Ireland (Part 16)

Post 102: Territorial disputes: Northern Ireland (Part 17)

Post 103: Territorial disputes: Northern Ireland (Part 18)

Post 104: Territorial disputes: Northern Ireland (Part 19)

Post 105: Territorial disputes: Northern Ireland (Part 20)

Post 106: Territorial disputes: Northern Ireland (Part 21)

Post 107: Territorial disputes: Northern Ireland (Part 22)

Post 108: Territorial disputes: Northern Ireland (Part 23)

Post 109: Territorial disputes: Northern Ireland (Part 24)

Post 110: Territorial disputes: Northern Ireland (Part 25)

Post 111: Territorial disputes: Northern Ireland (Part 26)

Post 112: Territorial disputes: Northern Ireland (Part 27)

Post 113: Territorial disputes: Northern Ireland (Part 28)

Post 114: Territorial disputes: Northern Ireland (Part 29)

Post 115: Territorial disputes: Northern Ireland (Part 30)

Jorge Emilio Núñez

Twitter: @London1701

25th December 2018

Territorial disputes: Final Recap 2018 (6) [Post 196]

Today we go back to our posts about Crimea. The last posts this year include a recap of all we have covered so far by including daily the relevant links.

The blog series TERRITORIAL DISPUTES covered conceptual elements, law and politics, and several of the most relevant worldwide differences.

Posts 65 to 85: Crimea

Previous posts about Crimea (TERRITORIAL DISPUTES series):

Territorial disputes: Crimea (Part 1) [Post 66]

Territorial disputes: Crimea (Part 2) [Post 67]

Territorial disputes: Crimea (Part 3) [Post 68]

Territorial disputes: Crimea (Part 4) [Post 69]

Territorial disputes: Crimea (Part 5) [Post 70]

Territorial disputes: Crimea (Part 6) [Post 71]

Territorial disputes: Crimea (Part 7) [Post 72]

Territorial disputes: Crimea (Part 8) [Post 73]

Territorial disputes: Crimea (Part 9) [Post 74]

Territorial disputes: Crimea (Part 10) [Post 75]

Territorial disputes: Crimea (Part 11) [Post 76]

Territorial disputes: Crimea (Part 12) [Post 77]

Territorial disputes: Crimea (Part 13) [Post 78]

Territorial disputes: Crimea (Part 14) [Post 79]

Territorial disputes: Crimea (Part 15) [Post 80]

Territorial disputes: Crimea (Part 16) [Post 81]

Territorial disputes: Crimea (Part 17) [Post 82]

Territorial disputes: Crimea (Part 18) [Post 83]

Territorial disputes: Crimea (Part 19) [Post 84]

Territorial disputes: Crimea (Part 20) [Post 85]

Jorge Emilio Núñez

Twitter: @London1701

24th December 2018

Territorial disputes: Final Recap 2018 (5) [Post 195]

The longstanding and still unresolved TERRITORIAL DISPUTE between Israel and Palestine has several dimensions. The current nomenclature in legal and political sciences used the term TERRITORIAL DISPUTE. Yet, the Israel-Palestine difference is a clear example of an ongoing dispute that has to do with territory as well as population, government and law domestically, regionally and internationally.

NOTE: The last posts this year include a recap of all we have covered so far by including daily the relevant links.

Posts 41 to 65: the Israel-Palestine difference

Previous posts of the TERRITORIAL DISPUTE series (only about the Israel-Palestine difference below):

Post 41: Territorial disputes: the Israel-Palestine difference (Part 1)

Post 42: Territorial disputes: the Israel-Palestine difference (Part 2)

Post 43: Territorial disputes: the Israel-Palestine difference (Part 3)

Post 44: Territorial disputes: the Israel-Palestine difference (Part 4)

Post 45: Territorial disputes: the Israel-Palestine difference (Part 5)

Post 46: Territorial disputes: the Israel-Palestine difference (Part 6)

Post 47: Territorial disputes: the Israel-Palestine difference (Part 7)

Post 48: Territorial disputes: the Israel-Palestine difference (Part 8)

Post 49: Territorial disputes: the Israel-Palestine difference (Part 9)

Post 50: Territorial disputes: the Israel-Palestine difference (Part 10)

Post 51: Territorial disputes: the Israel-Palestine difference (Part 11)

Post 52: Territorial disputes: the Israel-Palestine difference (Part 12)

Post 53: Territorial disputes: the Israel-Palestine difference (Part 13)

Post 54: Territorial disputes: the Israel-Palestine difference (Part 14)

Post 55: Territorial disputes: the Israel-Palestine difference (Part 15)

Post 56: Territorial disputes: the Israel-Palestine difference (Part 16)

Post 57: Territorial disputes: the Israel-Palestine difference (Part 17)

Post 58: Territorial disputes: the Israel-Palestine difference (Part 18)

Post 59: Territorial disputes: the Israel-Palestine difference (Part 19)

Post 60: Territorial disputes: the Israel-Palestine difference (Part 20)

Post 61: Territorial disputes: the Israel-Palestine difference (Part 21)

Post 62: Territorial disputes: the Israel-Palestine difference (Part 22)

Post 63: Territorial disputes: the Israel-Palestine difference (Part 23)

Post 64: Territorial disputes: the Israel-Palestine difference (Part 24)

Post 65: Territorial disputes: the Israel-Palestine difference (Part 25)

Jorge Emilio Núñez

Twitter: @London1701

21st December 2018

Territorial disputes: Final Recap 2018 (4) [Post 194]

Posts 31 to 40 centered the attention on Gibraltar. The combination of domestic, regional and international elements make this dispute a stalemate.

We have an already complex situation with Gibraltar, Spain and the United Kingdom in terms of geostrategic location, tax evasion, fishing rights, financial situation, only to name very few. If we add the European Union and Brexit the picture is extremely intricate. Although in principle a stalemate may seem negative, the status quo in Gibraltar may continue for now.

NOTE: The last posts this year include a recap of all we have covered so far by including daily the relevant links.

Posts 31 to 40: Gibraltar

Previous posts of the TERRITORIAL DISPUTE series (only about the Gibraltar below):

Post 31: Territorial disputes: Gibraltar (Part 1)

Post 32: Territorial disputes: Gibraltar (Part 2)

Post 33: Territorial disputes: Gibraltar (Part 3)

Post 34: Territorial disputes: Gibraltar (Part 4)

Post 35: Territorial disputes: Gibraltar (Part 5)

Post 36: Territorial disputes: Gibraltar (Part 6)

Post 37: Territorial disputes: Gibraltar (Part 7)

Post 38: Territorial disputes: Gibraltar (Part 8)

Post 39: Territorial disputes: Gibraltar (Part 9)

Post 40: Territorial disputes: Gibraltar (Part 10)

 

Jorge Emilio Núñez

Twitter: @London1701

20th December 2018