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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Border disputes"”.
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Border Disputes in Southeast Kansas, 1856-1858
Bleeding Kansas is often mentioned in Civil War histories but usually only in general terms. Discussions of Kansas are usually limited to events that occurred between 1854 and 1857 in the Lawrence region in the northwestern part of the state. John Brown is the most recognized figure from Kansas, …
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Borders: visualizing temporal changes in border disputes
Disputes and changes of international borders have been an area of study for cartographers since long ago. Now, with online maps growing faster than printed maps, the task also transfers to online map creators. Companies like Google and Bing provide personalized maps where disputed international …
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Escalation and resolution of border disputes and interstate conflicts in Africa the Malawi--Tanzania Case
Border disputes cause strife worldwide, especially in underdeveloped countries. In Africa, border disputes are commonplace, and they produce bitter conflicts and tribulations. This thesis investigates the border dispute between Malawi and Tanzania over Lake Nyasa. It argues that the protracted …
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The Dynamics of Border Disputes in State Making: The Fragile Borderlands in the Northern Region between Nigeria and Benin Republic in West Africa
African borders were arbitrarily drawn by the European powers. The post-independence African leaders agreed to maintain the inherited arbitrary partitions as discarding them would open doors for more crisis between African states. However, sixty years after independence, border disputes continued …
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Beaches of the future: analyzing territorial disputes in South America
Territorial and border disputes have long been a foundation for conflicts in the international arena, but in Latin America, gaps in literature still remain. Analyzing cases in this region can equip the international community to understand sources of conflict, formulate improved foreign policy with …
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The Principles of Territoriality - A Study in Public and Private International Law, Intellectual Property, and International Arbitration
… intersect: the commercial arbitration of cross-border disputes involving IP. It notably compares the question of the arbitrability of IP with the question of exclusive jurisdiction (or “jurisdictional territoriality”) in international IP litigation. It also considers the applicable law to …
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Toward a “Greater Morocco”: Moroccan irredentism and Cold War territorial expansions
… territorial claim of Mauritania (1957-1961), the border war known as “the Sand War” between Morocco and Algeria (1963-1964), and the Green March in Western Sahara in 1975. The thesis challenges the existing academic view that the conflicts between Morocco and its neighbouring countries were …
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The Finality of Partition: Bilateral Relations between India and Pakistan, 1947-1957
… aftermath of partition, evacuee property disputes, border and water disputes, minorities and migration, trade between the two countries, which shaped the canvas in which the India- Pakistan relationship took shape. This is an institution-focussed history to some extent, although I shall …
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A Vision for the Future of Private International Law in the States of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC): Why is it Necessary for the GCC to Move Towards Private International Law Harmonisation?
… in the GCC Charter, to face the increasing cross-border disputes resulting from GCC economic integration and to promote the operation of the international courts in the GCC States by coordinating between the international courts and the traditional courts.
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Regulating Arbitral Jurisdiction: A Private International Law Proposal
… arbitral resolution of international commercial disputes. It provides an account based on a contemporary analysis of these issues utilising the tools of private international law. The analysis is divided in two parts: a theoretical and a practical one. The theoretical part is informed by the …
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Looking at the intractability of the Israeli/Palestine conflict with a focus on the construction of identity
… of concern, such as the status of Jerusalem, border disputes, the right of return, issues over sovereignty and security and so forth. Mechanisms to address these issues should be premised on an understanding that the conflict environment is constantly changing; consequently, approaches to …
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Judicial jurisdiction and legal conflicts on the Internet: an analysis of Jordanian cyber jurisdiction rules
… cyberspace has posed one of the greatest cross-border jurisdictional challenges to the international legal community, that of establishing acceptable jurisdiction over internationally shared lands, seas, air-space and outer-space. Such a task poses an infinitely complex set of problems, …