This study examines how territorial changes - which are defined as any alterations of international boundaries - influence the prospects of future armed conflict between countries gaining and losing land through the change. The losing country is motivated to use force by the value of the lost...

A rarely explored subset of territorial disputes is that of domestic-level territorial disputes. In such a dispute, a substate group disagrees with the country's central government over whether the government should have sovereign control over the entire territory of the state; that is, the...

This paper explores the territorial dimensions of enduring internal rivalries (EIRs), which are defined as protracted domestic violent conflicts between governments and insurgent groups. It argues that the nature of domestic-level territorial conflicts, such as tactical advantages facing the...

This article examines the prospects for long-term success of an internally motivated division of a country’s homeland territory - a process known as partition or secession - into rump and secessionist states. The question investigated is why, in the years after the partition, some...

This article identifies the general criteria for inclusion of cases in the territorial change data set and describes basic patterns on some relevant dimensions of territorial changes. The data set, which identifies and codes all territorial changes involving at least one nation-state (as defined...