APHUG Day 46
Cool, huh? Where is it?
Agenda
• Finish notes
• Power of Place Video
• Article - U.S. Canadian Border
Homework: Chapter 8 Key Issue 4
Boundary Disputes
A. Territorial / Definitional
-Whose Land is it? Focus on
legal language of the
agreement
B. Positional / Locational =>
1991
1. focus on delimitation and
demarcation of the border
2. the interpretation of the
definition is the dispute
3. Saudi Arabia vs. Yemen
Boundary Disputes
C. Functional / Operational
Border Dispute
1. way boundary should
function
2. how should each side
handle cross-border migration
!
D. Resources / Allocational
Border Dispute
1. dispute over boundary due
to location of resources
2. water supplies - Colorado
River
Boundary Disputes
• D. Allocational
Border Dispute
• 1. dispute over
boundary due to
location of resources
• 2. water supplies Colorado River
nasa
Various boundary disputes - what type are
they?
• Botswana has built electric fences to stem the thousands of
Zimbabweans who flee to find work and escape political
Functional
persecution.
• Eritrea and Ethiopia agreed to abide by 2002 Ethiopia-Eritrea
•
Boundary Commission's (EEBC) delimitation decision, but despite
international intervention, mutual animosities, accusations, and
armed posturing have prevented demarcation; Ethiopia refuses to
withdraw to the delimited boundary until claimed technical errors
made by the EEBC that ignored "human geography" are addressed,
including the award of Badme, the focus of the 1998-2000 war.
Territorial and Positional
All of the Spratly Islands are claimed by China, Taiwan, and
Vietnam; parts of them are claimed by Malaysia and the
Philippines; in March 2005, the national oil companies of China, the
Philippines, and Vietnam signed a joint accord to conduct marine
seismic activities in the Spratly Islands.
Resource
Source: http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/fields/2070.html
Mari-time Boundaries
• UN Convention on
Law of the Sea
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Zonmar-en.svg
Supranationalism –
Loss of Boundaries?
• Countries give up sovereignty in order to
be part of larger organizations that they
benefit from
• Examples: EU, UN, NATO, AU, NAFTA
Power of Place Supranationalism