Political boundary conflicts and their global causes

Political Boundaries and Conflicts

Boundaries refer to physical or psychologically established separations, which mark the ends of agreeable operations and internalities within two or more nations. Every country in the world has its own boundary in the partition, which marks the geological exemplification from one country to another. For instance, the United States of America has boundaries, which separate it from its neighboring countries like Mexico. Germany is a nation with boundaries and shows the end of its geographical dominance with its neighboring countries. Any nation has boundaries and possible most of which are politically instilled. For instance, rivaling political parties exhibit political boundaries, which denote the depth of their political dominance in the region. Still between two or more countries, political boundaries are bound to exist. For instance, two conflicting nations, as it was the case with Palestine and Israel, a political boundary led to the creation of Israel. Conflicts relating to political boundaries are politically instigated in most cases. Ideological differences existing between two or more nations like Palestine and Israel may ruin the current cohesive boundaries and further generation of political boundary conflicts.

Research question

This research paper is premised on the question, "How political boundary conflicts occur across the globe and what effect does it have on the general human living?"

Discussion

There are many disburses of boundary-related wars, which have resulted from political inclinations. They have reached the boundary separations between conflicting groups. The physical boundaries as rivers and oceans have often been known to cause disputes in and outside of any nation. Boundary separations are structures, which are meant to keep peace and cohesive existence between different groups of people while in and out of duty (Mitchell 23-63). The constitutional and legal separations between two individuals translates to the existence of boundaries in the world. Nonetheless, the difference between the separated entities gets insinuated with the methodologies and concepts used to create the separation patterns.

In many cases, boundaries have been taken to mean diverse meanings. The literal meaning depicts a boundary as anything, which indicates a limit or bound. The existence of political or boundary delimitations involves political boundaries, which have been determined by the use of fabricated features like walls, fences, and many others. This is as happening between the United States of America and Mexico. In such a case, the boundary has been established politically, through either a signed treaty or a forceful endeavor. In some other cases, a boundary can exist in terms of demarcations. In such a case, boundaries exist without any physical separation. This has been used between Oman and Saudi Arabia. Such cases of boundaries are easily disrupted. They can result in fighting between the two nations or communities bordering each other and belonging to two different nations. Disputes have also been reported in the Abyei region between South and North Sudan resulting in perennial civil strife.

The disputed Abyei between South and North Sudan

Disputes erupt when two or more nations disagree about a given boundary or on other ideologies and opinions. The demarcation procedures are often liable to result in disputes. In some cases, Saudi Arabia and Oman have been forced to coexist with rampant conflicts due to the nature of boundary, which separates them. The inexistence of physical marking causes conflicts between the nations. Nonetheless, the agreements taken by the two nations can still be of sound importance so that no dispute erupts (Parodi 87).

Location of Musandam in Oman

The disputed Kashmir of India and Pakistan

Political boundaries and conflicts have been in existence for a number of years now. The long overdue example is that which existed between Israel and Palestine. In the year 1948, Israel was established as a sovereign nation from Palestine. Many Palestinians did not like this scenario because they wanted their land to remain intact. Many Palestinians had been living in this place for a long period. Before the settlement of Palestinians in this region, it is said that Israel had dominated this area since it had a number of Arab states. When the war erupted due to political influences, Israel managed to seize part of the land from Palestine.

For instance, some parts of the land which was politically seized included the Gaza strip, and the Golan Heights. Moreover, the Sinai Peninsula was also captured from the nearby Arab nations. These nations were not happy about what Israel had done. Initially, the nations sought to politically annihilated Israel as a country. Ever since Israel was established, it has been trying to extent part of its land. Scorching disputes erupted and led to the establishment of conflicts between these nations, a conflict that has remained up to today. After much of the politics, which were influenced by political movements and changes between the two nations, Sinai Peninsula was returned to Egypt.

Since then, Israel has not been in any good terms with other nations, most of which are the neighboring nations. Every change of power and political alienations bring fresh claims and disputes which results in frequent wars. Israel has all the right to have established itself and existed among the other nations (Harvey 96). The political movements, which tried to oppose Israel birth, were wrong since Israel had all right to exist. Although the nations who had to surrender part of their land to Israel had all the capacity to argue for it to be returned, they were forced to succumb to the political power that Israel had by then.

Diagram on how Israel has been able to engage in political boundary conflicts to a magnitude of almost acquiring most of the land from Palestine, between 1946 and 2000.

Political boundary disputes are also a generation of the political movements in the world. Politics entails integration of the people's opinions, wishes, and cries, into a political urgency, which can then be motivated into an action for future or immediate change. In most cases, local conflicts among nations have extended to political movements that have affected other nations. Boundaries, most of which are established by the political forces, are directed at serving the interests of the immediate countries. Such political forces have made nations try to shift their territories into other nation's boundaries. This often accompanies directives and strategies to obtain resources and materials as oil and other natural resources.

Resultant effects

Political boundaries and conflicts have affected the society largely. The eruption and continuation of wars is a major setback the world has suffered since the resurgence of political boundaries in the world. The continued strife between Israel and Palestine is just but a commemoration of the birth of political boundary conflicts. Conflicts result from the fact that when ideological differences persist, they result in strife among people. Politics keep changing in various nations. Agreements are made through treaties. However, these nations signing treaties are again common in engaging with political boundary conflicts.

Conclusion

Political boundary conflicts serve various roles in the global human existence. Conflicts are not regarded as the right way of solving disputes between nations or communities. As such, boundary conflicts have not been governing any chance to exist within the society. These conflicts reiterate the need for the United Nations to explore on the natural boundary existence between various nations (Tucker and Priscilla 152). Though boundary politics results in wars and conflicts, they are potent towards the existence and preservation of sovereignty between nations. Because of the recurrence of political boundary conflicts, many nations have resorted to signing treaties indicating a separation and boundaries relating to political movements.

Recommendations/possible solutions

There are a number of steps, which can be used to end political boundary wars in the world. Politics, being the higher agent of political boundary wars, should be subjected to scrutiny and study. This will help recover rightful ways of separating between politics and boundaries between nations and communities. Nations should not suffer because of the political decisions their leaders are making. Moreover, it becomes wrong for a nation to exist without the influence of the local and global forces as the United Nations. Therefore, it is upon the individual nations, and their political behaviors to influence change in the global society.

Positivity should be derived from the fact that human life is categorical of the agreements and boundary establishments. This is not based on the political and self-interested decisions. Boundary wars have been in existence for a long time. This has often been between the communities settling beside each other. Nonetheless, the involvement of political movements and ideologies has resulted in a more sophistication of the wars in the nations. Therefore, the individual nations who are known to perpetuate political boundary wars should consider having peaceful negotiations towards resolving their disputes (Issa-Salwe 45).