Ungoverned spacesI'm watching CNN show a map of the new state that ISIS has claimed in the Middle East, as US drones now fly over Baghdad once again. The militant group has claimed pieces of Iraq and Syria as being under their control.
It is a good example of the idea of ungoverned spaces that still exist in many parts of the world today. There are huge stretches of the world for hundreds or in some cases thousands of miles which governments cannot or do not control, even if they are within their borders.
A key point is that it is in these ungoverned, remote regions that terrorists and other lawless groups tend to find a haven.
Here are some examples:
Western Pakistan tribal areas (haven for Taliban)
Baluchistan region where Afghanistan-Pakistan-Iran (home to Baluchi nomads who have dealt in drugs, arms, human trafficking)
Russian Far East (thousands of Chinese moving in)
Saharan regions of Mal, Chad, Niger, etc. (Al-Quaeda in the Mahgreb AQIM)
Remote desert interior of Yemen (Al Quaeda)
Remote Amazon rainforest interiors of Suriname, Guiana, French Guyana (major packing and shipping point for cocaine grown in other countries)
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