TERRITORIAL CLAIMS TO RUSSIA TODAY

Abstract

In the article the author examines territorial claims to modern Russia from other countries. The author notes that in political science there is no clear definition of “territorial conflict”, often as synonyms to it uses the terms “international conflicts”, “territorial dispute”. The article offers an original interpretation of the concept of “territorial conflict”, showing its main differences from territorial disputes. In the second part of the article the author examines the territorial conflicts involving Russia and offers their classification on the basis of three characteristics: geographical, scale, method. Highlighted seven main areas of conflict: the Western, the Balkan, South, Central Asian, South-East, East, North. The author calculate the probability of new conflicts and the danger of these areas to Russia. At the end of the article proposed a universal scheme of classification of conflicts, which displays modern territorial conflicts with Russia and China, as well as a brief comparative analysis of the conflicts between the two countries.

Keywords

• Территориальные конфликты
• Россия
• Война
• Территориальный спор
• Китай
• Граница
• Международные конфликты
• Страна
• Украина
• Запад