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This study is based on thorough archival research and direct experience of the disputes. It will be the standard reference work on the question of national boundaries in south-eastern Arabia for al...
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15 December 2019

This new and previously unpublished study, by the foremost authority on the subject, is an exhaustive one, based on thorough research in the relevant archives and direct experience of the dispute.
As such it will be the standard reference work on this question for all who have an interest in the Gulf Arab states, their territorial origins and its effects on their increasing role in regional and world affairs.
The struggle to delineate the boundaries of south-eastern Arabia can claim to be one of the longest running diplomatic disputes of the twentieth century, which has echoes to this day.
Volume 2 includes 25 maps, volume 3 includes 40 maps and an index covering volumes 1 to 3.
As such it will be the standard reference work on this question for all who have an interest in the Gulf Arab states, their territorial origins and its effects on their increasing role in regional and world affairs.
The struggle to delineate the boundaries of south-eastern Arabia can claim to be one of the longest running diplomatic disputes of the twentieth century, which has echoes to this day.
Volume 2 includes 25 maps, volume 3 includes 40 maps and an index covering volumes 1 to 3.
Price: £300.00
Pages: 872
Publisher: Gerlach Press
Imprint: Gerlach Press
Publication Date:
15 December 2019
ISBN: 9783959940788
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, Middle Eastern history, HISTORY / Middle East / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Diplomacy, International relations
VOLUME I
Introduction
1. The Anglo-Turkish Conventions of 1913-14
2. The Spoils of War, 1914-32
3. Oil Concessions and Boundary Claims, 1933-39
4. Oil Prospecting and Territorial Limits, 1939-49
VOLUME II
5. ARAMCO and the Re-Opening of the Frontier Question, 1949-52
6. The Saudi Incursion to Buraimi, 1952-53
7. The Arbitration Agreement, 1953-54
Maps 1-25
VOLUME III
8. The Interim Regime in the Disputed Areas, 1954-1955
9. The British Declared Line of August 1955 and the Dhufar and Aden Protectorate Frontiers
10. Buraimi and Anglo-American Relations, 1955-1956
11. The Search for a Frontier Settlement, 1957-1964
12. Qatari Frontiers, 1965-1970
13. A Suq Bargain, 1970-1971
14. Final Frontiers?
Conclusion
Appendices
Maps 26-40