PARIS: Borders are supposed to be sacrosanct the world over but 2014 saw boundaries in Ukraine, Iraq and Syria thrown into question, raising fears of a new world order.
Yet experts say such concerns are overblown.
Russia’s quick-fire annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula in March drew a chorus of outrage and a diplomatic war-of-words. But the fury failed to reverse the situation or prevent a Moscow-influenced separatist conflict from breaking out in the country’s east.
In June, a lightning offensive across northern Iraq by Islamic State (IS) jihadists and their proclamation of a caliphate spanning IS-controlled territory in Iraq and neighbouring Syria sent …read more
Source: Free Malaysia Today
