Territorial disputes is an important area of study in international relations. Most previous researches related to international conflict have been focusing more on ethnic conflict, religious conflict, armed conflict and others. However, there is less attention given to territorial disputes. The current research on territorial disputes have been restricted because of two related conceptual roadblocks. Scholars have a tendency to concentrate on the consequences and not the origins of these disputes and research emphases on the characteristics of the opposing states rather than on the characteristics of the territory issue. Furthermore, there are lack of research that aim to build typologies of both conflict and power. This study employs on critical discourse analysis and interpretivism as it allows for discourses to be analyzed from manifold valid viewpoints. The analysis of this study found that typology can be developed from territorial disputes cases which give the outcomes of different types of conflict and distinct role of power in a specific context. This study has been to produce a new typology of conflict and power that could serve as future reference in international relations. In addition, the typology of conflict has confirmed that conflict in territorial disputes covers all the elements of subjects such as societies, territorial, institutions and authority in line with the theory of conflict by Ralf Dahrendorf that holds the notion of conflict that authority relations are essentially existing in all societies and conflict is inevitable in the society. Moreover, this study also concludes that Michael Foucault’s theory on power managed to identify the wide range roles of power in territorial disputes. There is a clear cut finding that power in many forms can be the essential elements why it acts as an attributes towards many territorial disputes. As Foucault’s puts it power is all over, not because it embraces everything uniformly, but because it comes from everywhere. All these significantly contribute to the body of knowledge related to conflict and power specifically in the context of territorial disputes.
