NON-GOVERNMENTAL DIALOGUE ON TERRITORIAL DISPUTES IN ASIA-PACIFIC REGION. Proceedings of the Third international scientific conference July 6, 2012. Vladivostok, 2014, 140 p.*; MARITIME TERRITORIAL DISPUTES IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGION AND THE ARCTIC. Collection of materials of the "round table" September 26, 2014 (Vladivostok. Admiral G. I. Nevelsky Maritime State University), 2014, 140 p. Territorial disputes have existed for perhaps as long as humanity has existed. People have always sought to gain access to new, more fertile lands, mineral, water and other resources, and this desire has almost always been accompanied by conflicts of interest, which often escalated into confrontations and armed conflicts. And at present, despite the seemingly already established map of the world with fairly clear borders of states, territorial disputes not only do not disappear, but, on the contrary, become particularly acute. Since the borders of states are mostly defined, modern territorial claims are mainly not border disputes, but disputes concerning ownership and rights to the continental shelf, water areas, and islands. Almost all of these conflicts are not products of today and can have a very long history. Often, such disagreements could persist in a latent form for quite long periods, and their activation was caused both by well-defined political and economic events in a particular country or region, and by changes in the alignment of international forces. One of the main factors in the aggravation of territorial disputes is the increasing competition for natural resources in our time. In addition to the economic component (the struggle for access to mineral and biological resources), the political aspect is also important - the desire for a dominant position in a particular region, to weaken existing and potential competitors, to maintain domestic stability by using the image of an "external enemy", etc. At present, almost all of these disputes seem extremely far from bei ... Read more