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>[...] nation states have rarely agreed, as a matter of course, on where boundaries are [...] There are far far more contemporary examples of nations agreeing
by TheBlight 3y ago
>[...] nation states have rarely agreed, as a matter of course, on where boundaries are [...]
There are far far more contemporary examples of nations agreeing on where the boundaries are than examples of them not agreeing. The status quos is generally agreement.
- nathan_compton 3y agoI'd be willing to hazard a guess that very few borders on earth between nation states have no disputed areas, but in any case, even if this were true it is a state of affairs no more than a few hundred years old and many borders were arbitrarily drawn by world powers sometimes even for sinister reasons (for a good example, read about the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan). Throughout most of history firm borders were simply impossible to define. I object strongly to raising them to the level of a "shared reality."