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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part 1 Review and Theory -- 1. Buffer States: A Geographer's Perspective -- 2. Buffer States: The Issue of Sovereignty -- 3. Southern Africa: Buffer States Without a Conventional Buffer System -- 4. Buffer Systems of Middle America -- Part 2 Region and Country Case Studies -- 5. Eastern Europe: The Buffer Effect of a Cordon Sanitaire -- 6. The Albanian Lands: Continuity and Change in a Buffer Region -- 7. The Geo-Political Demise of Lebanon: Consequences of a Political and Military Buffer -- 8. Asia's Pivotal Buffer States -- 9. The History of Afghanistan As A Buffer State -- 10. Korea, A Buffer State -- 11. Uruguay: The Quintessential Buffer State -- 12. Buffer States: Outlining and Expanding Existing Theory -- About the Contributors -- Index.

Intro -- BUFFER STATES POWER POLICIES, FOREIGN POLICIES AND CONCEPTS -- BUFFER STATES POWER POLICIES, FOREIGN POLICIES AND CONCEPTS -- IN MEMORY OF MY FATHER -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- Chapter One THE BUFFER CONCEPT -- Chapter Two THE GEOGRAPHICAL AND ETHNO-CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS OF BUFFER STATES -- Chapter Three THE GEOPOLITICAL LOCATION OF BUFFER STATES. GEORGIA - A BUFFER? -- Chapter Four THE POWER AND THE WEAKNESS OF BUFFER STATES -- Chapter Five POWER POLITICS AND BUFFER STATES -- Chapter Six THE FOREIGN POLICIES OF BUFFER STATES -- Chapter Seven THE BUFFER SYSTEM -- CONCLUSION -- ANNEX -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- Blank Page.

Afghanistan's fourteen-year-long civil war erupted in 1978 and ended in the disintegration of a state that was first hyperarmed by the superpowers and then abandoned by them. This book analyzes the part played by international politics in this debacle, discussing how changing patterns of strategic conflict and cooperation have affected international negotiations over Afghanistan from the period of the civil war to the present

"This book explores buffer states' agency beyond being highly interactive spaces for the competing strategic and security interests of larger powers. Analysing twenty-one political events the author offers a new conceptual framework for the buffer state, which emphasizes strategic utility and agency of the buffer state. Applying this to the case study of Nepal as a buffer state between India and China, he offers a systematic analysis of Sino-Indian interests in the wider region, and Nepal's interactions with and reactions to them, and argues that the buffer state in contemporary International Relations is characterized by intense competitive overtures from its contending neighboring states. However, it is not just a spectator but an active participant that consistently assesses and reassesses its geopolitical position in between much larger competing powers. This reading offers a new understanding of the buffer state as a highly dynamic political space wherein the levels of influence and strategies of bigger powers can be examined. Aimed at a multidisciplinary audience, this book will be of particular interest to scholars, practitioners and students of international relations, security studies, strategic studies, and Asian Studies"--

If you were to examine an 1816 map of the world, you would discover that half the countries represented there no longer exist. Yet since 1945, the disappearance of individual states from the world stage has become rare. State Death is the first book to systematically examine the reasons why some states die while others survive, and the remarkable decline of state death since the end of World War II. Grappling with what is a core issue of international relations, Tanisha Fazal explores two hundred years of military invasion and occupation, from eighteenth-century Poland to present-day Iraq, to

If you were to examine an 1816 map of the world, you would discover that half the countries represented there no longer exist. Yet since 1945, the disappearance of individual states from the world stage has become rare. State Death is the first book to systematically examine the reasons why some states die while others survive, and the remarkable decline of state death since the end of World War II. Grappling with what is a core issue of international relations, Tanisha Fazal explores two hundred years of military invasion and occupation, from eighteenth-century Poland to present-day Iraq, to.

Chapter One: Small States as Distinct Units of Analysis and as Different than Large and Middle Powers. - Chapter Two: Realism and Small States in the International System. - Chapter Three: Non-Structural Factors of Foreign Policy: Domestic Factors and Social Constructivism. - Chapter Four: Switzerland, 1815-Present: Small State in the Middle of a Multipolar Regional Power Structure. - Chapter Five: Ireland, 1920-present: A Singular Stance for Nearly a Century. - Chapter Six: Small European Buffer States in Two World Wars. - Chapter Seven: Finland, 1939-1945: A Small State Resists Aggression. - Chapter Eight: The Third Indo-China War, 1979. - Chapter Nine: The Ogaden War 1977-1978, Ethiopia vs. Somalia. - Chapter Ten: The Chaco War, 1932-1935: Paraguay vs. Bolivia. - Chapter Eleven: Generalizations about Small State Behavior

Punctuated by marches across the United States in the spring of 2006, immigrant rights has reemerged as a significant and highly visible political issue. Immigrant Rights in the Shadows of U.S. Citizenship brings prominent activists and scholars together to examine the emergence and significance of the contemporary immigrant rights movement. Contributors place the contemporary immigrant rights movement in historical and comparative contexts by looking at the ways immigrants and their allies have staked claims to rights in the past, and by examining movements based in different communities arou

Preliminary Material -- Asiatic Russia -- The Absorption of siberia -- The Consquest of the khanates -- The Taking Of Turkomania -- The Partition of Persia -- Russian Poucy in Asia -- The March on India -- Russia in China -- Conquest by Railway -- Russia and England Face to Face -- The theory of a Buffer state -- The Secret of Success -- The Outlook -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Appendix C -- Index.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Geopolitical Focus on Southern Africa -- The Emphasis on Apartheid -- Interdependence -- South African Hegemony -- Geopolitical Focus -- 2 Economic Interdependence -- Regional Interdependence -- Economic Vulnerability -- Landlocked States -- Black African Ports -- South African Ports -- Rail Network -- Other Dependencies -- Global Interdependence -- Foreign Policy Leverage -- Strategic Minerals -- The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty -- The Cape Route -- International Debt -- 3 Pluralism: The Domestic Challenge -- Historical Setting -- The Separation of Races -- Constitutional Reform -- Black Opposition -- 4 New Buffer States: South Africa's Regional Policy -- Economic Incentives -- New Buffer States -- Zimbabwe -- Mozambique -- Angola -- Policy Success -- 5 South Africa's Mining Industry: Mainstay of the Economy -- Minerals and the Economy -- Historical Setting -- Governmental Role in Mining -- Mining Laws -- Government Tax Policy -- Mineral Organizations -- The Private Sector -- Factors of Production -- Labor -- Foreign Workers -- The Black Labor Unions -- Energy -- Electricity -- Synthetic Fuels -- Transportation Infrastructure -- 6 Sanctions: A Double-Edged Sword -- Sanctions and Interdependence -- The Historical Application of Sanctions -- Sanctions Against South Africa -- South Africa's Economic Outlook -- Governmental Sanctions -- The Arms Embargo -- Oil and Nuclear Technology Sanctions -- Banning the Sale of Krugerrands -- Banning Bank Loans -- Government Sanctions in Europe and Japan -- Impact and Probability of a Trade Embargo -- Other Sanctions -- Impact of Sanctions on Southern Africa -- Zimbabwe -- Botswana -- Zambia -- Mozambique, Malawi, Swaziland and Lesotho -- Conclusion.