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| 2025 | Belize | Introduction | Background | ...Guatemala refused to recognize the new nation until 1992, and the two countries are still involved in an ongoing border dispute. Tourism has become the mainstay of the economy. Current concerns include the country's heavy foreign debt burden, high... |
| 2025 | Gibraltar | Introduction | Background | ...After the UK granted Gibraltar autonomy in 1969, Spain closed the border and severed all communication links. Between 1997 and 2002, the UK and Spain held a series of talks on establishing temporary joint sovereignty over Gibraltar. In response to... |
| 2025 | Guinea | Military and Security | Military - note | ...military-led government has since been accused of cracking down on dissent, the media, and political opposition; border security is a key focus for the Guinean military, particularly a territorial dispute with Sierra Leone that dates back to 2001 (2025) |
| 2025 | India | Military and Security | Military - note | ...for a terrorist attack in India-controlled Kashmir and retaliated, sparking a brief cross-border conflict involving aircraft, artillery, drone, and missile strikes the Kashmir dispute also includes the Siachen Glacier, located in the Karakoram Mountain Range, which was seized... |
| 2025 | Pakistan | Military and Security | Military - note | ...for a terrorist attack in India-controlled Kashmir and retaliated, sparking a brief cross-border conflict involving aircraft, artillery, drone, and missile strikes the Kashmir dispute also includes the Siachen Glacier, located in the Karakoram Mountain Range, which was seized... |
| 2024 | Belize | Introduction | Background | ...Guatemala refused to recognize the new nation until 1992, and the two countries are still involved in an ongoing border dispute. Tourism has become the mainstay of the economy. Current concerns include the country's heavy foreign debt burden, high... |
| 2024 | Gibraltar | Introduction | Background | ...After the UK granted Gibraltar autonomy in 1969, Spain closed the border and severed all communication links. Between 1997 and 2002, the UK and Spain held a series of talks on establishing temporary joint sovereignty over Gibraltar. In response to... |
| 2023 | Algeria | Transnational Issues | Disputes - international | ...border with Morocco remains an irritant to bilateral relations, each nation accusing the other of harboring militants and arms smuggling; the National Liberation Front's (FLN) assertions of a claim to Chirac Pastures in southeastern Morocco remain a dormant dispute... |
| 2023 | Argentina | Transnational Issues | Disputes - international | ...contraband smuggling, human trafficking, and illegal narcotic trafficking are problems in the porous areas of the border with Bolivia Argentina-Brazil: uncontested dispute between Brazil and Uruguay over Braziliera/Brasiliera Island in the Quarai/Cuareim River leaves the tripoint with... |
| 2023 | Azerbaijan | Transnational Issues | Disputes - international | ...a joint boundary commission agrees on most of the alignment, leaving only small areas at certain crossing points in dispute; consequently, the two states have yet to agree on a delimitation or demarcation of their common boundary; one area of... |
| 2023 | Belize | Introduction | Background | ...Guatemala refused to recognize the new nation until 1992 and the two countries are involved in an ongoing border dispute. Both nations have voted to send the dispute for final resolution to the International Court of Justice. Tourism has become... |
| 2023 | Benin | Transnational Issues | Disputes - international | ...Benin retains a border dispute with Burkina Faso near the town of Koualau/Kourou Benin-Togo: talks continue between Benin and Togo on funding the Adjarala hydroelectric dam on the Mona River Benin-Niger: the location of Benin-Niger-Nigeria... |
| 2023 | Bolivia | Transnational Issues | Disputes - international | ...Bolivia), under Bolivian administration but did not resolve the sovereignty dispute Bolivia-Argentina: contraband smuggling, human trafficking, and illegal narcotic trafficking are problems in the porous areas of the border Bolivia-Paraguay: on April 27, 2009, the president of Argentina... |
| 2023 | Brazil | Transnational Issues | Disputes - international | ...boundary dispute between Brazil and Uruguay over Arroyo de la Invernada triangle and sovereignty over Isla Brasilera leaves the tripoint with Argentina in question; smuggling of firearms and narcotics continues to be an issue along the Uruguay-Brazil border Brazil... |
| 2023 | Burkina Faso | Transnational Issues | Disputes - international | porous borders contribute to illicit cross-border activities, including terrorism and trafficking Burkina Faso-Benin : the two countries dispute sovereignty over a small area known as Kourou/Koalou near the tripoint with Togo, which has been declared a neutral zone... |
| 2023 | Burundi | Transnational Issues | Disputes - international | cross-border conflicts persist among Tutsi, Hutu, other ethnic groups, associated political rebels, armed gangs, and various government forces in the Great Lakes region Burundi-Rwanda: Burundi's Ngozi province and Rwanda's Butare province dispute the two-kilometer-square... |
| 2023 | Cambodia | Transnational Issues | Disputes - international | ...Cambodia and Thailand have agreed to maintain peace along the border regardless of the decision of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) over territorial dispute near Cambodia's Preah Vihear Temple; the ICJ decision of 11 November 2013 determined that... |
| 2023 | Canada | Transnational Issues | Disputes - international | managed maritime boundary disputes with the US at Dixon Entrance, Beaufort Sea, Strait of Juan de Fuca, and the Gulf of Maine, including the disputed Machias Seal Island and North Rock; Canada and the United States dispute how to divide... |
| 2023 | China | Transnational Issues | Disputes - international | ...continue their security and foreign policy dialogue started in 2005 related to a number of boundary disputes across the 2,000 mile shared border; India does not recognize Pakistan's 1964 ceding to China of the Aksai Chin, a territory... |
| 2023 | Costa Rica | Transnational Issues | Disputes - international | Costa Rica and Nicaragua regularly file border dispute cases over the delimitations of the San Juan River and the northern tip of Calero Island to the International Court of Justice (ICJ); in 2009, the ICJ ruled that Costa Rican vessels... |
| 2023 | Croatia | Transnational Issues | Disputes - international | dispute remains with Bosnia and Herzegovina over several small sections of the boundary related to maritime access that hinders ratification of the 1999 border agreement; since the breakup of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, Croatia and Slovenia have each claimed... |
| 2023 | European Union | Transnational Issues | Disputes - international | as a political union, the EU has no border disputes with neighboring countries, but Estonia has no land boundary agreements with Russia, Slovenia disputes its land and maritime boundaries with Croatia, and Spain has territorial and maritime disputes with Morocco... |
| 2023 | Gibraltar | Introduction | Background | ...The subsequent granting of autonomy in 1969 by the UK led Spain to close the border and sever all communication links. Between 1997 and 2002, the UK and Spain held a series of talks on establishing temporary joint sovereignty over... |
| 2023 | Guatemala | Transnational Issues | Disputes - international | ...thousands of impoverished Guatemalans and other Central Americans cross the porous border with Mexico looking for work in Mexico and the US |
| 2023 | Indonesia | Transnational Issues | Disputes - international | ...territorial disputes resulting from competing interpretations of colonial era documents have prevented a full demarcation of the land border where there are several areas under dispute; negotiations continue; the two countries have not agreed to any EEZ boundaries; disputed maritime... |
| 2023 | Iran | Transnational Issues | Disputes - international | ...dispute over undemarcated maritime border and Al Durra offshore gasfield in the Arabian/Persian Gulf Iran-UAE : Iran and UAE dispute the Greater Tunb, Lesser Tunb, and Abu Musa islands, which are occupied by Iran; Iran has conducted military drills... |
| 2023 | Jordan | Transnational Issues | Disputes - international | ...the two countries signed an agreement in 2005 to settle the border dispute based on a 1931 demarcation accord; the two countries began demarcation in 2006 Jordan-West Bank : none identified |
| 2023 | Kenya | Transnational Issues | Disputes - international | ...border disputes; in 2021 began a joint process to complete a modern, re-demarcation of the border Kenya-Uganda: Kenya and Uganda began a joint demarcation of the boundary in 2021; Kenya and Uganda have a small, managed dispute over... |
| 2023 | Korea, North | Transnational Issues | Disputes - international | ...the 2020s, North Korea has built hundreds of kilometers of new or upgraded border fences, walls, and guard posts along the border; North Korea and China dispute the sovereignty of certain islands in Yalu and Tumen Rivers North Korea-Japan... |
| 2023 | Kyrgyzstan | Transnational Issues | Disputes - international | ...a 2009 treaty settled a border dispute, with Kyrgyzstan receiving the Khan Tengri Peak and Kyrgyzstan ceding to China the Uzengi-Kush area Kyrgyzstan-Kazakhstan : in January 2019, Kyrgyzstan ratified the 2017 agreement on the demarcation of the Kyrgyzstan-Kazakhstan... |
| 2023 | Lebanon | Transnational Issues | Disputes - international | ...lacking a treaty or other documentation describing the boundary, portions of the Lebanon-Syria boundary are unclear with several sections in dispute; in March 2021, Syria signed a contract with a Russian company for oil and gas exploration in a... |
| 2023 | Malawi | Transnational Issues | Disputes - international | ...dispute with Tanzania over the boundary in Lake Nyasa (Lake Malawi) and the meandering Songwe River; Malawi contends that the entire lake up to the Tanzanian shoreline is its territory, while Tanzania claims the border is in the center of... |
| 2023 | Montenegro | Transnational Issues | Disputes - international | ...October 2020, a Montenegrin official resurrected the dormant dispute over the Prevlaka Peninsula by stating that Montenegro had a good chance of winning it through international arbitration Montenegro-Kosovo : a 2015 border agreement was ratified by Montenegro in 2015 and... |
| 2023 | Nepal | Transnational Issues | Disputes - international | ...joint border commission continues to work on contested sections of boundary with India, including the 400 sq km dispute over the source of the Kalapani River; the Kalapani issue resurfaced in November 2019 when India issued a new map showing... |
| 2023 | Nicaragua | Transnational Issues | Disputes - international | ...Nicaragua and Costa Rica regularly file border dispute cases with the ICJ over the delimitations of the San Juan River and the northern tip of Calero Island, virtually uninhabited areas claimed by both countries; there is an ongoing case in... |
| 2023 | Nigeria | Transnational Issues | Disputes - international | ...Joint Border Commission with Cameroon reviewed 2002 ICJ ruling on the entire boundary and bilaterally resolved differences, including June 2006 Greentree Agreement that immediately ceded sovereignty of the Bakassi Peninsula to Cameroon with a phaseout of Nigerian control within two... |
| 2023 | Pakistan | Transnational Issues | Disputes - international | ...since 2002, with UN assistance, Pakistan has repatriated about 5.3 million Afghan refugees, leaving about 2.74-3 million; Pakistan has sent troops across and built fences along some remote tribal areas of its treaty-defined Durand Line border... |
| 2023 | Romania | Transnational Issues | Disputes - international | ...of Romania in its dispute submitted in 2004 over Ukrainian-administered Zmiyinyy/Serpilor (Snake) Island and Black Sea maritime boundary delimitation; in 2007, Romania opposed Ukraine's construction of a navigation canal from the Danube border through Ukraine to the... |
| 2023 | Russia | Transnational Issues | Disputes - international | ...Ossetia, physically dividing villages in the process; Russia continues to move the South Ossetia border fences further into Georgian territory Russia-Japan: the sovereignty dispute over the islands of Etorofu, Kunashiri, Shikotan, and the Habomai group, known in Japan as... |
| 2023 | Rwanda | Transnational Issues | Disputes - international | ...the 2005 DRC and Rwanda border verification mechanism to stem rebel actions on both sides of the border remains in place Rwanda-Uganda: a joint technical committee established in 2007 to demarcate sections of the border |
| 2023 | Serbia | Transnational Issues | Disputes - international | ...Serbia delimited about half of the boundary with Bosnia and Herzegovina, but sections along the Drina River remain in dispute Serbia-Bulgaria : none identified Serbia-Croatia : Serbia and Croatia dispute their border along the Danube; Serbia claims the border is... |
| 2023 | Sierra Leone | Transnational Issues | Disputes - international | ...Sierra Leone opposed Guinean troops' continued occupation of Yenga, a small village on the Makona River that serves as a border with Guinea; Guinea's forces came to Yenga in the mid-1990s to help the Sierra Leonean military to... |
| 2023 | Singapore | Transnational Issues | Disputes - international | ...org/wiki/Indonesia%E2%80%93Singapore_border https://www.iseas.edu.sg/media/commentaries/indonesia-ratifies-maritime-border-treaty-with-singapore-a-commentary-by-mustafa-izzuddin/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedra_Branca_dispute https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Malaysia... |
| 2023 | Somalia | Transnational Issues | Disputes - international | ...Kenyan Government began building a wall along the border to prevent the crossborder movement of militant groups; the boundary separates ethnic Somalis; in October 2021, the Somalia-Kenya Indian Ocean boundary dispute was decided by the International Court of Justice... |
| 2023 | Suriname | Transnational Issues | Disputes - international | ...the two countries dispute the territory between two rivers, known as the New River Triangle, with Suriname contending that the New River (also called the Upper Corentyne) to the west marks their common border, while Guyana asserts that the Kutari... |
| 2023 | Syria | Transnational Issues | Disputes - international | ...the two countries signed an agreement in 2005 to settle the border dispute based on a 1931 demarcation accord; the two countries began demarcation in 2006 Syria-Lebanon : discussions on demarcating the two countries maritime borders were held in April... |
| 2023 | Taiwan | Transnational Issues | Disputes - international | ...border dispute over the Scarborough Reef in the South China Sea; Scarborough Reef, like the Spratly Islands, is strategically located and is surrounded by abundant fishing grounds; it may also be ripe for oil and natural gas exploration Taiwan-China... |
| 2023 | Tanzania | Transnational Issues | Disputes - international | ...dispute with Malawi over the boundary in Lake Nyasa (Lake Malawi) and the meandering Songwe River; Malawi contends that the entire lake up to the Tanzanian shoreline is its territory, while Tanzania claims the border is in the center of... |
| 2023 | Thailand | Transnational Issues | Disputes - international | ...Cambodia and Thailand dispute sections of their border; in 2011, Thailand and Cambodia resorted to arms in the dispute over the location of the boundary on the precipice surmounted by Preah Vihear temple ruins, awarded to Cambodia by ICJ decision... |
| 2023 | Ukraine | Transnational Issues | Disputes - international | ...hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian refugees are crossing the border to Romania to escape the Russian invasion in their country, the ICJ in 2009 ruled largely in favor of Romania in its dispute submitted in 2004 over Ukrainian-administered Zmiyinyy... |