Reference

• IBRU's list of the world's international land boundaries
• Boundary lengths dataset from the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO)
• Direct contiguity 1816-2000 (v3.0) dataset from the Correlates of War 2 website
• Territorial Change, 1816-2000 (v3.0) dataset from the Correlates of War 2 website
• CIA World Factbook (contains statistical information on all states recognised by the US government, including land border lengths and territorial disputes).
• Maritime conventions and treaties
• Maritime Claims Reference Manual from the United States Department of Defence (published in January 1997).
• Oregon State University's Transboundary Freshwater Dispute Database
• Chris Hedley's OceanLaw site
• Erdem Denk's Island Disputes site
• United Nations Treaty Database
• Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection from the University of Texas at Austin
• Maps from Sir Edward Hertslett's Map of Africa by Treaty from the Library of Congress.
• The US Department of State's International Boundary Studies and Limits in the Seas series hosted by the Florida State University College of Law. Recent Limits in the Seas studies are aalso available directly from the Department of State website.
• The Encyclopedia of Exclaves and Enclaves.
• Countries' EEZ database from the Seas Around Us project.

Miscellaneous

• The int-boundaries e-mail list. A popular forum for the discussion of international boundaries and other territorial issues.

• The BoundaryPoint e-mail list. Lively discussion revolving primarily around boundary tripoints.

• Boundary Bits Boundary-related news from International Boundary Consultants.

• Paul Hensel's Border and Territory Links.

• Karla Tonella's Border Crossings links.

• Jesper Neilsen's Borderbase, which includes a wonderful collection of boundary images.

• Peter Hering's Border Pictures site.

• Rolf Palmberg's Border Zone Europe and Border Zone Asia & America picture sites.

• Special European Borders Life along the Dutch-German, the Belgian and other European state boundaries.

• 'Fraid at the Edges Essay by Stephen DeLong.

• Boundary Conflicts and Preventive Diplomacy Essay by Kjell-Åke Nordquist.

• On Drawing Lines on Maps Essay by Barry Smith.

• Essays on the Politics of border making and (cross-)border identities in Eurozine.

• Fiat and Bona Fide Boundaries Essay by Barry Smith.

• Boundaries for a New Africa Essay by Richard Griggs.

• Legal Status of Islands - With Reference to Article 121(3) of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea Essay by Jon M. Van Dyke.

• Geopolitical Friction Chapter from Military Geography for Professionals and the Public by John M. Collins.

• Frontiers The complete, unexpurgated text of a classic piece of border literature: the 1907 Romanes lecture by Lord Curzon of Kedleston, Viceroy of India 1898-1905 and British Foreign Secretary 1919-24. It's a large file, so we've divided it into five parts:
  
  
  • Part 1: Introduction, Frontiers in History
  • Part 2: Origins of Frontiers, Natural Frontiers
  • Part 3: Artificial Frontiers
  • Part 4: Modern Expedients
  • Part 5: Evidence of Progress
  
   Alternatively, you can download the entire lecture as a PDF file.

• Shore and Sea Boundaries  PDF versions of all three volumes of this classic work by Aaron L. Shalowitz and Michael W. Reed. See especially Part Two of Volume III on Delimiting Maritime Boundaries.

• Legal regime of joint development and management zones Chapter from Ocean governance: sustainable development of the Seas edited by Peter Bautista Payoyo.

• The Micronations Page A fascinating list of 'countries' which have been declared independent by individuals or small groups but which have (so far) failed to achieve widespread diplomatic recognition. Includes links to a large number of Micronation web sites. See also the League of Secessionist States and Footnotes to History.

• A comparative overview of theories about boundaries by aloe@rev.net.

• The Global Maritime Boundary Database from General Dynamics.

• A wonderful collection of resources on transboundary protected areas from the World Conservation Monitoring Centre.

• Nomadic Borders Papers from an international workshop of the Centre for Independent Social Research held at Narva, Estonia in June 1998.

• Doug Murray's record of the 'Great Central European Border Expedition' of 2001.

• EUBORDERCONF - The European Union and Border Conflicts: The Impact of Integration and Association. Project coordinated at the Department of Political Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham, UK.

• The EU Border Identities project.

• Dismemberment and Suffocation: A Contribution to the Debate on African Boundaries Paper by Pierre Englebert, Stacy Tarango and Matthew Carter.

• The MIT Cascon System for Analyzing International Conflict

• Maximiliano Herrera's analysis of the potential for the emergence of new countries around the world.

• The World Conservation Monitoring Centre's Transboundary Protected Areas pages.

• 'Virtual Reality' Panoramas of Boundaries and Borders.

• Paper exchange pages of the Kings College London MA programme in International Boundary Studies.

• Jurisdictional Relationships Between Nations and Their Former Colonies Article by Thomas W. Donovan in Across Borders: The Gonzaga Journal of International Law.

If you know of other boundary-related sites on the Internet, please let us know.