Border Disputes: A Global Encyclopedia

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....