Thailand and Cambodia are bickering over their borders again. Can diplomacy prevent a return to war?
- Written by Clive Schofield, Professor, Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security (ANCORS), University of Wollongong
Koh Kut island in the Gulf of Thailand, at the centre of a border dispute between Thailand and Cambodia.Wikimedia CommonsLast year, Thailand and Cambodia fought two brief conflicts over their 800-kilometre-long land border that killed dozens of people and forced a half million people to flee their homes.
Now, tensions are escalating again between...





