Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Tables and Maps; Acknowledgements; 1 TERRITORIAL NATIONALISM AND INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT; The Dynamics of International Territorial Conflict; International Mechanisms for Solving Territorial Disputes; 2 TERRITORIAL ISSUES IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN; Regional Mechanisms for Resolving Conflict; The Venezuela-Guyana Border Dispute; 3 THE VENEZUELA-GUYANA BOUNDARY DISPUTE: THE ACTORS; Guyana: Basic Data; Venezuela: Basic Data; 4 THE STAKE: THE ESSEQUIBO; The Essequibo Territory; Guyanese Development of the Essequibo
7 COOPERATION AND CONFLICT: FIRST PERIOD, 1962-1966Background; Cooperation: First Ministerial Conference; Low-Level Conflict: Act of Washington; More Efforts at Cooperation: Second Ministerial Conference; The Geneva Conference; 8 COOPERATION AND CONFLICT: SECOND PERIOD, 1966-1970; Cooperation: The First Meeting of the Mixed Commission; Conflict: The Ankoko Affair; More Conflict: The Treaty of Tlatelolco and the Expulsion of a Venezuelan Diplomat; Cooperation: Meetings of the Mixed Commission
9 MANEUVERING FOR STRENGTH: POLICIES IN THE INTERIMMinimization Strategies and Possibilities; Functional Cooperation between Venezuela and Guyana; Guyana's Plans for Internal Development of the Essequibo; Diplomatic Maneuvers; Support at the Regional Level; 10 A NEW PHASE: THE REOPENING OF THE DISPUTE; Factors in the Venezuelan Decision not to Renew the Protocol; Conflict, 1981-1983; The Dispute as It Stands; 11 AND NOW ... SOLUTIONS; Towards a Negotiated Settlement; Notes
Conflict Again: Venezuelan Reservations to the Granting of Mining Concessions by the Guyana GovernmentMore Efforts at Cooperation: Meetings of the Mixed and Sub-Commissions; Conflict Intensified: The Venezuelan Decree of Annexation of Marine Areas and the Rupununi Rebellion; Cooperation: More Meetings of the Mixed Commission; Conflict Again: Venezuelan Attempts to Modify the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties; Cooperation: Final Meeting of the Mixed Commission/The Next Step; Conflict: Border Incidents; The Dispute at the United Nations; Good Offices; The Protocol of Port-of-Spain
Guyana without the EssequiboVenezuelan Potential for Development of the Essequibo; Venezuela with the Guayana Esequiba; 5 HISTORY OF THE DISPUTE; Early Origins of the Conflict, 1498-1840; The Road to Arbitration, 1844-1897; The Arbitration, 1897-1899; Immediate Reactions to, and Consequences of, the Award; Later Reactions to the Award and Circumstances Leading to the Reopening of the Dispute in 1962; 6 THE DISPUTE: LEGAL ASPECTS; Preliminary Issues: The Principles of Res Judicata and Estoppel; Venezuelan Grounds for Invocation of Nullity; Nullity Procedure