Buffer state
With a buffer state to since the end of the designated 19th century a smaller state, the larger territories or spheres of influence from one another. Thereby he reduces possible conflicts and confrontations . For this reason, attempts were often made to preserve the integrity of the buffer state. If there are armed conflicts in the neighboring larger states, the buffer state is usually particularly affected. It often serves as a marching area or becomes a site of fighting. Its existence is possibly threatened by the expansionist urge of the more powerful neighboring states, which intend to incorporate the buffer state as territorial spoil within their national borders. The cordon sanitaire was a concept with several buffer states strung together from the early 20th century.
Examples
- Republic of Krakow between Prussia , Austria and Russia ( Congress of Vienna )
- Uruguay and Paraguay between Argentina and Brazil ( Triple Alliance War )
- Bolivia , created by Gran Colombia as a buffer between Peru and Argentina ( question from Upper Peru ), also between Chile after the Confederation War
- Afghanistan between Russia and British India ( Treaty of Saint Petersburg (1907) )
- the Benelux countries between the German Empire and France ( First World War )
- Far Eastern Republic between Soviet Russia and the Japanese Empire ( Russian Civil War )
- Austria between NATO and the Warsaw Pact ( Cold War )
- North Korea between the People's Republic of China and South Korea (or thus indirectly the USA ; Korean conflict )
- Nepal and Bhutan between the People's Republic of China and India
