Flashpoint (politics)
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In international relations, a flashpoint is an area or dispute that has a strong possibility of developing into a war.
[edit] Current flashpoints
- the Taiwan straits
- Korea peninsula
- the Golan heights
- Israeli-Lebanon border
- Kashmir
- the Spratly Islands
- Imia/Kardak - Aegean dispute
- Barents Sea dispute
- the Shatt al-Arab
- the Caucasus
- the Falkland Islands (see Falklands War)
- Gaza Strip
- Abyei
- Syria
- Post-Soviet frozen conflicts (i.e. South Ossetia, Abkhazia, Nagorno-Karabakh)
- Iran (see Nuclear program of Iran)
[edit] Historical flashpoints
- the Balkans
- Bosnia
- Berlin
- Sudetenland
- the Rio Grande valley
- Alsace-Lorraine (France Germany border)
- trade with the East
- Soviet Union – United States relations (see Cold War)
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