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1 J. Territorial & Mar. Stud. 5 (2014)

handle is hein.journals/jtms1 and id is 1 raw text is: 5 GUEST EDITOR'S NOTE The Resurgence of Territorial and Maritime Issues in the Post-Modern Era Chae-Han Kim Professor of Political Science, Hallym University, Korea As the launch of The Journal of Territorial and Maritime Studies demonstrates, there has been a recent resurgence of territorial and maritime issues that have plagued both ancient and modern societies for centuries. Territorial borders have evolved over time: pre-modern, modern and post-modern. Most literature concerning bor- der issues, however, is just about modern borders. Recent territorial disputes have been undertaken with the assumption that all boundaries are clear. 4 is Figure 1 Clear Boundary versus Unclear Boundary However, pre-modern boundaries were never made clear. The two circles in Figure 1 are drawn to the same size. As the periphery of the right circle is colored too pale, it looks smaller than the left. Defacto jurisdiction does not reach the pe- riphery of the right circle. Therefore pre-modern borders may be expressed as the circle on the right in Figure 1.